Performance and Emotion Communication

This curated exhibition invites you to explore the connection between performance and emotions. We turn to the arts — performances, exhibits and visual media — as rigorous alternatives for studying the layers of rich emotional experience that standard techniques could miss.

Our exhibition features

• Emotion Elicitation & Experience — The Spark: How do we get people to feel?
• Emotion Production — The Labour: How is emotion evoked in us, and how do we show it?
• Emotion Perception — The Witness: How does the audience make sense of the display?

Each performance excerpt is accompanied by a reflection from the performer/creator. Scan the QR codes on the posters to access the excerpts, and take up the opportunities for live engagement and experience throughout the room. We invite you to respond to these artworks.