‘The atmosphere and biosphere are part of a larger meta system of energy exchange: the weather is felt as a local, direct and immediate phenomenon’ 138
‘I define weather through movement, a change in the air that is felt by a participant.’ 140
Gernot Bohme-> ‘atmospheres constitute the ‘in-between’ of environmental qualities and human sensibilities ‘ 140
‘Medium of perception’ 141
‘Scenographic weather considers the aesthetic reception of the medium of air in performance as an affective experience’ 141
‘Account for the ecology of participant and environment through movement’ 141
‘Cycling of scenographic materials, body and air’ 141
‘seeks to account for the ecology of participant and environment through movement (...) as a cycling of scenographic materials, body and air’, 141
‘Mutual reciprocity between body and environment - specifically through multi-sensory experience of the air as medium’ 154
Absorption
‘Compassion’ - ‘experiencing with, whether it takes the form of sharing another’s sorrow, joy, mourning together, or partaking in communal celebration’
‘Compassionate connection expands outwards to form an even larger body, through a joining of the welfare, desires and abilities of others’
‘A compassionate concern is a way of opening up to the world; absorption is an extension of compassion, a being ‘open through an aesthetic sensitivity to things’ 155
‘Experience of bidirectional incorporation; the world come alive empathetically within my body, even as I experience myself as part of the body of the world’ (Leader 1990: 166).
Shearing proposed a ‘Compassionate absorption’ to express the expansive reception of scenography ‘ 156