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EMOTION SPACE AND SOCIETY
Volume 38, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100766
Keywords
Atmosphere; Affect; Emotion; Street performance; More-than-representational method; Ethnography; Taipei
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- National University of Singapore's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Research Support Scheme
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This study examines the formation of atmospheres by street performances in Taipei and their affectual and emotional resonance on space and people. Street performance objects and the urban streetscape are vitalized as part of street performance, with excessive potential in producing atmospheres. The spatio-temporal dimension of performance atmosphere is significant in generating memories and creating a therapeutic atmospheric space.
Studies of street performance have highlighted its potential for creating vibrant and inclusive urban places, yet have largely neglected its atmospheric, affectual and emotional dimensions. Building on a growing body of work on atmospheres and dynamics of affect and emotion, I examine the formation of atmospheres by street performances in Taipei and its affectual and emotional resonance on space and people. I used an experimental more-than-representational methodology, including implementing a live survey questionnaire through the audience's smartphones during a performance. An atmosphere of street performance is generated through the lively interactions between the street performer, members of the audience, performance objects and the wider urban environment. Performance objects and the urban streetscape are vitalised as part of street performance, and have excessive potential in producing atmospheres. The spatio-temporal dimension of performance atmosphere is significant in generating memories and creating a therapeutic atmospheric space, experienced affectually and emotionally. I suggest that it would be helpful to see atmosphere and its affectual and emotional impact as dynamic, simultaneous experiences that people encounter as they are enmeshed within an atmosphere, such as in more-than-individual experiences or unexpected events. Within a changing atmosphere, there are multiple layers of affective and emotional outcomes, whether felt and emerging individually, and/or felt and emerging collectively.
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