This blog is set up so that Dr Hwang and I can track the progress made on my honours thesis. It will be a space where I'll wonder aloud and sound out my ideas.
In our meeting, I confessed that I felt "guilt" for bringing the scientific perspective to Zarrilli's practice because it reminded me about the prevalent sentiments towards theatre during Stanislavsky's and Meyerhold's time. Things that were not immediately scientifically justifiable then was either seen as useless or seen as a threat.
Though I don't see things that way, I was concerned that the research may end up looking like it privileges the scientific language over the metaphorical language commonly used in theatre and in Zarilli's practice.
Recalling my time spent in Voice Production class with Ms Nora Samosir, I felt it was beneficial to my training to be trained in the metaphorical language but at the same time read up on medical books on "scientific" knowledge of the vocal cords.
We also discussed how we should be wary about the traditional east-west dichotomy with our discussion. There is a linguistic tendency for me to refer to modern medicine as "western" medicine. I guess it's because I see it as compared to TCM which is "eastern". At the same time, I also felt that I have to be careful of the Art-Science dichotomy, paying special attention to the fact that Physics was at one point, Natural Philosophy.
So we established that it was interesting to look at the topic, treating the "scientific" language and the "metaphoric" language as 2 modes of discourse to consider the idea of consciousness and attention.
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