In this paper I will present a tradition of practise-based knowledge Šused in the field of performance and installation production as custom designed laboratory events, situating a research in practise.

The specific laboratory instantiation presented is using shapes of light and objects as an installation. When people visit this construction they get involved in a complex framing, formatting their conditions for experiencing. The instantiation is a structure of situated knowledge designed to shape the consciousness of the visitors. They gain a heightened attention to their mutual relationship promoting the emergence of a special state of consciousness.

I will address both the methodological issues of knowledge as situated knowledge, and elaborate on theoretical discourses articulating on the emergent state of consciousness. I will approach the subject as an inner actualization of mirror-states building on theories of Lacan et.al., and as a production of conceptual spaces from theories of Foucault et.al. This will all lead up to a combined articulation in both abstract and concrete process based thinking on what could be called 3rd order relationships. I will show how pre-arranged environments format the state of consciousness, and how this formatting generates an instrumentalization of the visitors, making them become performers.



Author Bio
Karin Søndergaard has studied at the Department of Dramaturgy, Institute for Aesthetic Studies at the University of Aarhus, DK, 1978-80 and at the Academy of Theatre, Aarhus,DK, 1982-85. Since 1987 she has been working as an independent artist producing most of her works within the institution Boxiganga. The works include performance theatre, video and installation. A selection of her work can be seen at www.boxiganga.dk

Currently she is a Ph.D. candidate at the www.planetary-collegium.net karin@boxiganga.dk Bjørnsonsvej 85, 2500 Valby, Denmark, +45 3630 1691.