Stanislavsky’s system as an enactive guide to embodied cognition?
This paper presents a model of the structure of subjective experience derived from the work of Konstantin Stanislavsky, and demonstrates its usefulness as a functional framework of enacted cognitive embodiment by using it to articulate his approach to the process of acting. Research into Stanislavsk...
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| description | This paper presents a model of the structure of subjective experience derived from the work of Konstantin Stanislavsky, and demonstrates its usefulness as a functional framework of enacted cognitive embodiment by using it to articulate his approach to the process of acting. Research into Stanislavsky’s training exercises reveals that they evoke a spatial adpositional conceptualisation of experience. When reflected back onto the practice from which it emerges, this situates the choices made by actors as contributing towards the construction of a stable attention field with which they enter into relationship during performance. It is suggested that the resulting template might clarify conceptual distinctions between practices at the unconscious level, and a brief illustrative comparison between Stanislavsky’s and Meisner’s practices is essayed. A parallel is drawn throughout with the basic principles of embodied cognition, and correlations found with aspects of Dynamic Field Theory and Wilson’s notions of “on-” and “off-line” processing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-93cdbb3edf0c4e46a827c6e496420b4a2023-09-15T10:47:57ZengTaylor & Francis GroupConnection Science0954-00911360-04942017-01-01291436310.1080/09540091.2016.12713971271397Stanislavsky’s system as an enactive guide to embodied cognition?Ysabel Clare0Goldsmith’s, University of LondonThis paper presents a model of the structure of subjective experience derived from the work of Konstantin Stanislavsky, and demonstrates its usefulness as a functional framework of enacted cognitive embodiment by using it to articulate his approach to the process of acting. Research into Stanislavsky’s training exercises reveals that they evoke a spatial adpositional conceptualisation of experience. When reflected back onto the practice from which it emerges, this situates the choices made by actors as contributing towards the construction of a stable attention field with which they enter into relationship during performance. It is suggested that the resulting template might clarify conceptual distinctions between practices at the unconscious level, and a brief illustrative comparison between Stanislavsky’s and Meisner’s practices is essayed. A parallel is drawn throughout with the basic principles of embodied cognition, and correlations found with aspects of Dynamic Field Theory and Wilson’s notions of “on-” and “off-line” processing.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2016.1271397embodied cognitionspatial adpositionalstanislavskyactingattention field |
| spellingShingle | Ysabel Clare Stanislavsky’s system as an enactive guide to embodied cognition? Connection Science embodied cognition spatial adpositional stanislavsky acting attention field |
| title | Stanislavsky’s system as an enactive guide to embodied cognition? |
| title_full | Stanislavsky’s system as an enactive guide to embodied cognition? |
| title_fullStr | Stanislavsky’s system as an enactive guide to embodied cognition? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stanislavsky’s system as an enactive guide to embodied cognition? |
| title_short | Stanislavsky’s system as an enactive guide to embodied cognition? |
| title_sort | stanislavsky s system as an enactive guide to embodied cognition |
| topic | embodied cognition spatial adpositional stanislavsky acting attention field |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2016.1271397 |
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