20th Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology will be held soon in Belgrade. I am going to give a talk there in the roundtable titled "Phenomenology and Psychology of Performance" organized by Dr. Tetsuya Kono. Other speakers are Dr. Shoji Nagataki from Chukyo University and Dr. Martin Nitsche from Czech Academy of Sciences. Here is the abstract.
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Performance is an important theme with great potential for the development of philosophy, psychology, and the cognitive science of embodiment. The methodology to study performances should be the basis for the studies of arts, sports, education, and clinical psychology. However, in order to understand the phenomenon of one-time performance, conventional hard science methodology is disqualified since it places reproducibility as the basis of research. In contrast, phenomenology has the potential to provide the basis for a science of performance to analyze the structure and the meaning of performance experiences. In recent years, phenomenology and related cognitive studies of embodiment (4E cognition) have begun to pay more attention to skilled performance and tact in performance (Fuchs & De Jaegher 2009, Gallagher 2021, Grant et al. 2019; Hutto 2012; Welch 2019).
So far, we have been conducting phenomenological and qualitative research on intercorporeal interactions. Kono will talk about how children have a dialogue in the practice of philosophy for/with children. Nagataki will focus on certain typical scenes in a soccer game and the linguistic expressions of the leaders who analyze and describe these images. Nitsche will speak on sonic performances (not only music), how they create sound-spaces, and immersion within the sonic in-between. Tanaka will talk about an experiment in which a pair of people drew in improvisation to confirm the process of “participatory sense-making” that emerges “in-between”.
In this roundtable, we discuss the fundamental questions, “Are the scientific studies of one-time performance possible?”, “What contribution can digital humanities make to research in this field?”, and “What are the relations between skills and performance” from the interdisciplinary and phenomenological viewpoints.
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The conference website is here;
https://www.istp2024.f.bg.ac.rs/
I look forward to sharing my ideas in ISTP.
