Category Archives: Jessica Smith

The Experiment – did we answer our question?

With the performance over, it felt appropriate to look back at our questions; What is intimacy and how do we create it? Can you create a meaningful encounter with a stranger? As discussed in a previous post, each of us … Continue reading

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The Performance – Reflections

The performance day had finally come, there was a good turnout and it appeared that the performance went well. Due to the content of our performance, we each had a very different experience, below are each of our responses; Jordan … Continue reading

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The Details in the Performance

As discussed in a previous, post our performance was beginning to touch upon some very complex ideas, and therefore for these to effectively be realised, the details in how we presented our performance were very important. An important decision we … Continue reading

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The Importance of Touch

Through doing research in Emmanuel Lévinas, how we viewed our performance began to change. Lévinas speaks of the face and what happens when we see this face, however it could be argued that our piece extends this idea, as we … Continue reading

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One to One Responses

Although our performance is a group performance, it is set up as a series of one to one performances in which our question ‘What is intimacy?’ is explored. While each of these performances are experimenting with the same questions and … Continue reading

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