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September 26, 2010 blog

an experiment

The term ‘experience’ is crucial: for too long spectators have been equated with readers as decipherers of meaning. … The traditional task of ‘making sense’ is then replaced by unique experiences, which are both cognitive operations and forms of emotion. The word ‘experience’ derives etymologically from the French ‘to put to the test’. Experience is an experiment.

– David George (1996: 23); cited in Robin Nelson ‘Modes of Practice-as-Research Knowledge and their place in the Academy’, 2010: 122.

Up next seam 2010 From Critical Path: If you’re interested in the cutting edge connection between Dance performance and technology, then take a look at what’s dad My Dad (Ian Graham Ellis) and me — reckon it’s February 1995. He died in December that year. He’s looking cheeky, I’ve got a terrible haircut

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