Four artist-researchers associated with the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University discuss their manners of documenting and observing their performing selves. What role can... Show moreFour artist-researchers associated with the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University discuss their manners of documenting and observing their performing selves. What role can intuition play in research? Can self-reflection and performance coinhabit the same corporeal space? Although the participants share points of view, their practices, the materials they engage with and the intended outcomes differ. Show less
This essay explores possibilities for enactive imagining and criticism. It observes how recent enactive accounts of cognition see no divide between imagination and everyday perception, and forego... Show moreThis essay explores possibilities for enactive imagining and criticism. It observes how recent enactive accounts of cognition see no divide between imagination and everyday perception, and forego representationalism. It examines somatosensory responses and effortless vivacity for some animal-related imagery in Terence Cave’s cognitive literary criticism Thinking with Literature (2016). Next, it finds that today’s enactive criticism resonates with Francis Junius’s early modern notion of energia, a loose blend of vividness (enargeia) and vivacity (energeia), and concludes that, with its emphasis on energeia’s ‘life force’, energia goes beyond the viewer’s participation in an image’s pictorialist illusion. Pictorialist-style imagining, the essay claims, aligns with a pre-enactive representationalist understanding of cognition. To better explore enactive imagining, the essay entangles discursive writing and artistic work, animated by bird wings. Show less
