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Breaking The Fourth Wall: Avenues For Empathy Through Participation And Interaction, Grace Zajdel
Breaking The Fourth Wall: Avenues For Empathy Through Participation And Interaction, Grace Zajdel
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
Abstract:
Theater is used as a lens through which I view the act of role play in participatory and interaction based artworks. I examine the elements of Action – in participatory or performance works—and Set—in immersive installation works – for their effectiveness in creating avenues for empathetic relations in my own work and that of contemporary artists. I distinguish between the overblown spectacle of Peter Brook’s Deadly Theater and connect the mission of the Holy Theater to that of my own art practice. Performance, immersive installation, participation and interaction thereby serve to allow the artwork’s participants to engage in role-taking …