Wild Life: The lived experience of artistic creativity

Abstract

This project is a Performance Research investigation that explores how binary concepts such as mind/body, subject/object, and conscious/unconscious limit our capacity to gain a more appropriate and precise understanding of human artistic creativity. The project lays out an alternative philosophical background to examine and interpret artists’ experiences of creativity, and then turns to performance practice to apply, experiment, distil, perform, and articulate how the dynamic and generative processes of life are implicated in processes of artistic creativity. My central thesis is that artistic practitioners can consciously access experience differently, through corporeal practices, to activate fundamental structures for artistic purposes.