‘dense involvement of the subject in an interactive and inter-affective context that entangles thinking, feeling, and acting’
performance installations-creating fictional worlds actualised in large scale site-specific environments
immersion-> unfolds as a result of finding oneself embedded in an affective arrangement (232)
“to merge” / provides a way of overcoming a static subject-object divide
x one-directional absorption or submersion of someone into something but “mutual transformation of both” — yinyang
“Each individual enters into an immersive interplay of affecting and being affected in situ, which produces a degree of immediacy beyond fictionality and technical mediation” (235)
An affect theroetical approach to immersion-> immersion opens up new forms of feeling, acting, and embodiment that could be transformative for subjectivity (236)
feedback process between the individual’s disposition and the enironment’s affective stimuli