Re: [-empyre-] Re: shared canvas

["Mark Hancock" <Mark.Hancock@marconi.com>]

Adrian Miles wrote:
>enhances performance? i think that's a different or not quite there
>question. i don't understand the point to be about enhancing
>performance if i understand enhance to be 'improving' existing forms
>of performance. i take it to be about new forms of performance, or at
>least letting performance explore some new ideas/problems and also i
>guess develop a new medium (distributed collaborative realtime
>polymedia performance).

I reply:
I was thinking (at the time) in terms of the live perormance and
the'performer' not having to face the audience for whom they are performing
the work, and therefore letting themselves get more involved and to go to
further extremes (of childishness or seriousness even sexual openness?). I
like the jazz improv methaphor used by Damien. For some reason I always
think of these peformances in terms of Performance Art, mainly because I
always imagine a type of televised performance over distance. Discussion so
far has expanded my idea of what these shared performance spaces are/can
be, so many thanks to everyone for helping me think one stage further.

Mark