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    Practical intersubjectivity
    Janus Head 8 (2): 560-580. 2005.
    In the 1960’s and 1970’s there was a brief flourishing of practical and group phenomenological work, spurred by a renewed intention towards the things themselves. Despite a growing turn to phenomenology across the Humanities since the 1990’s, there is still much more written about phenomenology than phenomenology performed. This essay sketches a brief history of group phenomenological methods which have sought to remedy this situation and outlines a project nearing completion at the Department o…Read more
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    Performance Phenomenology: To the Thing Itself (edited book)
    with Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie and Matthew Wagner
    Springer Verlag. 2019.
    This collection of essays addresses emergent trends in the meeting of the disciplines of phenomenology and performance. It brings together major scholars in the field, dealing with phenomenological approaches to dance, theatre, performance, embodiment, audience, and everyday performance of self. It argues that despite the wide variety of philosophical, ontological, epistemological, historical and methodological differences across the field of phenomenology, certain tendencies and impulses are re…Read more
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    Abysmal Laughter
    PhaenEx 3 (2): 37-70. 2008.
    Between March and June 2008, a group of fifteen Performance Studies and Communications students at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia undertook a course on comedy based on a series of six lectures by Agnes Heller in which she outlined ideas from her book, Immortal Comedy. Subsequently, the students attended a number of comedy shows and other events to perform practical group phenomenological research with an aim to activate the ground opened by Heller’s theories through description of act…Read more
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    Despite the obsession with language, discourse and signification in the humanities and social sciences during the Twentieth century, the study of the living, breathing action of speaking was largely neglected. Apart from pathologies of speech dysfunctions, anthropologies of how specific groups speak under what circumstances, and rhetorics of public speaking, the ubiquitous, universal phenomenon of human speaking remains a hidden, unasked question. This paper offers a remedy for the situation. It…Read more
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    The Unnamed Origin of the Performative in Heidegger’s Interpretation of Aristotelian Phronēsis
    In Stuart Grant, Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie & Matthew Wagner (eds.), Performance Phenomenology: To the Thing Itself, Springer Verlag. pp. 63-83. 2019.
    In this chapter, Stuart Grant argues that a sense of the performative is embedded at the core of one of Heidegger’s central projects, and that while it is not always explicit or fully realised, an “idea of the performative […] haunts Heidegger’s whole body of work”.
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    When Gadamer proclaims that “music must resound” (Gadamer, Truth and method. Bloomsbury, London, 2013, 120), he returns to a not uncommon theme in his work, the concept of Vollzug, which translates a connotative field in English encompassing senses of fulfillment, execution, enacting and performance. For Gadamer, a work of art is continually open to reinterpretation through its ongoing performances and receptions (Gadamer, Epoché J Hist Philos 26(1):251–258, 2021, 252). No doubt this is an apt a…Read more
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    Introduction
    with Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie and Matthew Wagner
    In Stuart Grant, Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie & Matthew Wagner (eds.), Performance Phenomenology: To the Thing Itself, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-16. 2019.
    This chapter sets out the aims and structure of the book. While it foregoes much of the conventional “setting the table” work of such chapters, it does offer some grounding thoughts on the need for a book such as this and on the importance of tracing the multiple types of relationship between phenomenology and performance. It also offers brief descriptions of each chapter, placing them in the context of the book’s structure and providing a sense of some of the links between them.
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  • Triplealice 3 is a third series of arts labs held in the Central Desert which brings the artists, scientists and thinks together to discuss the three disciplines writing, visual arts and the body. It is a three weeks event and invites artists to take up residence for the full three weeks and discuss the issues.
  • The Essential Question: So What’s Phenomenological About Performance Phenomenology?
    In Stuart Grant, Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie & Matthew Wagner (eds.), Performance Phenomenology: To the Thing Itself, Springer Verlag. pp. 19-37. 2019.
    This chapter lays the critical groundwork for the book by focusing on the single question in its title: what makes something phenomenological? In many ways, the chapter does the work of a conventional introduction to an edited volume: it sketches a brief history and genealogy of phenomenology and its usage in performance scholarship. In doing so, however, it also makes a strong and clear call for increased rigour and definition in that usage; it argues that while there exists a wide range of phe…Read more