Navigating in Overlaps: Redefining Performance Space as Multi-Space

Stijn Brinkman

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In this study it is advocated to perceive performance space as overlapping multiple spatial layers, all existing in the same moment, but all with different boundaries. A triangle of performer, audience and surroundings creates performance space together as co-players by activating spatial layers and redrawing spatial boundaries. A new term is coined to better understand the unstable, moving nature of performance space: multi-space. To deal with the concept of multi-space in actual performances, the use of the verbs ‘navigate’ and ‘zoom in/out’ are advocated. Embedded in this study is an exposition of the artistic projects of Stijn Brinkman, in which the concept of multi-space is tested as new tool to create performances with more exploration, agency, imagination, and movement. By finding a way for performers to disappear and to be present at the same time, the domination of walls and the domination of a performer's body (both apparent in many traditional performances) are challenged. The concepts of multi-space, navigate and zoom in/out stimulate audiences to engage more with their surroundings, while helping performers to shape their ideas always through site-specific processes.

type	research exposition
keywords	space, Multiplicities, boundaries, navigation, Zoom, perception, focus, exploration, presence, liminality, imagination, performance
date	14/02/2023
published	21/03/2024
last modified	21/03/2024
status	published
copyright	Stijn Brinkman
license	CC BY-NC-ND
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1950797/1950798
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/koncon.1950797
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	1. Master Research Projects

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name	Out There binoculars 2
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name	multi-space 1
copyright	Stijn Brinkman
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name	multi-space 5
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name	multi-space 34
copyright	Angela Rawlings
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Begga_klippir_Mengi_tonleika_2
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license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	video

name	Angela photo binoculars
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license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Angela photo church
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name	out there angela short
copyright	Angela Rawlings
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	video

name	eye power
copyright	Stijn Brinkman
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name	eye power 3
copyright	Stijn Brinkman
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name	multi-space 35
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name	Out There full
copyright	Stijn Brinkman
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usages	video

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copyright	Stijn Brinkman
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usages	audio

name	wall socket
copyright	Stijn Brinkman
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name	instructions overlaps
copyright	Stijn Brinkman
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name	Overlaps score 1
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name	Overlaps score 2
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name	Out There tape
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usages	audio

name	Eye Power 2
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usages	picture

name	multi-space 4
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name	multi-space 46
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copyright	Angela Rawlings
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name	multi-space 33
copyright	Angela Rawlings
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name	multi-space 11
copyright	Stijn Brinkman
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name	multi-space 21
copyright	Angela Rawlings
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	multi-space 45
copyright	Angela Rawlings
license	Public domain
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name	multi-space 32
copyright	Angela Rawlings
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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