Contemplative Performance
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
: B - Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Drama
- Output identifier
- 8
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component: Articles, Books and Audio including Contextual Information
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This multi-component submission comprises a series of related outputs from Middleton's research into cognitive and contemplative processes in the creation and reception of performance. The 2015 article with Moss analysed the work of IOU Productions through the lens of emergent cognition, and developed the notion of the resistant conceptual blend. Those understandings were then applied in a creative process in which Middleton (writing as Templeton) and composer Monty Adkins produced an audio installation commissioned by IOU [Contextual Information 1a]. Middleton and Adkins combined the technique of the resistant blend with meditational strategies for cultivating attentional stability and expanded metacognitive awareness.
This innovative contemplative approach to performance writing was subsequently applied and tested by Middleton in further practice-as-research projects designed in response to commissions [Contextual Information 1d-f]. The Dreaming of Trees, initially created for the Taller de Investigación Teatral (Mexico) [Contextual Information 1 e-f], and subsequently redeveloped as an audio installation with Julio d'Escriván [Contextual Information 1 g-h], explored indigenous ecology. A 2018 commission for Czech Radio Vlatava applied the model in the context of an extended radiophonic work.
The potential of contemplative performance to effect change in audiences was tested in a co-authored research project with sustainability researchers in 2018 [Contextual Information 1j] and the results published in an article for the Journal of Consumer Policy.
This body of research contributes to artistic practice by developing innovative applications of cognitive science research, particularly pertaining to contemplation, in an artistic context; it explores the ways in which understanding contemplative states can influence performance writing and the construction of aesthetic experiences for audiences.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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