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Mildred GALLAND-SZYMKOWIAK
Researcher
Researcher
Chargée de recherche CNRS, professeure attachée à l'ENS
Arts
Philosophy
aesthetics, German philosophy
ENS-PSL
Department of Philosophy
Published on
13 July 2021
, updated on
18 May 2022
Theproject "IdEm (identification, empathy, projection in theperforming arts)" explores the concepts and problemsrelated to therelationship of thespectator to the performance. Theaim is to reconstructthehistory, transformations and issues of the notions used in thehistory of aestheticthought in theWestsinceAntiquity to think about thisrelationship (theater, cinema, dance). The notions are studied in theirlanguage, theircontext, thetransfersthat mark theirhistory. Theproject, whichwassupported by theLabexTransfers, is presented in thescientific blog idem.hypotheses.org.
Field of research
The heart of the project lies in the constitution of an online and open access dictionary, the Vocabulary of Identification in the Performing Arts, of which a first version will soon be available (hosted by HumaNum). Its construction has been the occasion to reflect on what a dictionary online could bring in comparison to a paper version organized alphabetically. With the researchers involved, we have determined a double structuring: by large selected categories of identification (catharsis, projection, empathy, sympathy, identification, distancing, presence, hypnosis) which bring in themselves information on the historicity of the explored concepts; and by key-words whose structuring gave rise to an in-depth work.
See the conferences related to the project.
Publications
- In preparation: with Marie Martin (ed.), Aux limites de l’expérience du spectacle
- avec Massimo Olivero (éd.), Extase. Histoire et enjeux d’un concept d’expérience.