No Encounter Without Border: The Fractal Dimension of the Actor-Spectator Relationship

• Autores: Gabriele Sofia
• Localización: De fronteres i arts escèniques / coord. por Núria Santamaria, Francesc Foguet i Boreu, 2015, ISBN 978-84-943779-0-7, págs. 465-481
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The notion of border has been greatly modified and it is no longer used to merely distinguish or separate objects. It rather becomes a complex system within which objects interlace and complement, without mingling or becoming assimilated. The actor and the spectator, as human beings, are supposed to share precise body techniques required in their everyday lives. Nonetheless the actor elaborates new body techniques beyond their everyday needs. In this sense, the actor’s psychophysical extra-dailyorganisation is the actual physical point of contact and difference with the spectator. Throughout neuroscience and fractal geometry we can find some new epistemological models to describe the actor-spectator relationship. We can take the examples of the studies about mirror neuron mechanism that offer a new description of the motor processes that underline the actor-spectator interaction. Anyway, the presence of a mirror mechanism does not imply, as apparently suggested by the name, a «mirroring» of actor andspectator; it rather shows a motor and pre-linguistic resonating process on which the actor can find their own rules, their tricks and their peripetia. We might even say that the actor’s aim is to be ambiguous, as long as possible, to the eyes and senses of the spectator. We can thus affirm that it is in the different control of the actor’s body-mind system and in their development of new creative potentialities that the border between them and spectator becomes the necessary difference that makes their meeting possible