This project studies numinous phenomenon in performance to discover new ways to language and understand numinous encounters as ineffable and embodied lived experiences. Felt as “real” or concrete ...they significantly contribute insight toward potentializing personal and cultural transformation. Intangible, numinous experiences exist on a horizon of mystery in the “in-between-ness” between the known and the unknown. They hold crucial insight into a kind of magnetic knowing that reveals how embodiment influences all our experience. To bring voice to such in-between-ness, this depth psychological qualitative study integrates somatic studies with performance philosophy, performance studies, and embodiment research as it builds on Vagle’s (2018) post-intentional phenomenological methodology. This innovative and open-ended approach claims that reiterative processes and embodied approaches to meaning making are best found through multiple creative lenses. Artistic research, specifically Practice as Research, or PaR, examines the relationship between theory and method from the perspective of studio-based research practices. PaR currently challenges traditional approaches to scholarship and is highlighted as six diverse artist/scholars share insight into their experiences and weave a complex, multi-layered tapestry, confirming that embodied contact with data elicits a type of knowledge in excess of itself. As it problematizes written and spoken language’s capacity to capture and translate the numinous, this study exposes multiple and complex tensions held in the in-between-ness where space and time are altered as the numinous reveals itself through the language of body and psyche.
...the assumptions found in previous studies of Australian literary expatriation during the post-World War II generation do not necessarily hold true in their case (Britain; Conrad). According to ...this analysis, literary expatriation is explained by the desire to associate with the established centres of cultural production, in particular London, with its strong attraction as both an imperial capital and an established centre for literary excellence and global publishing. ...studies of literary expatriation have focused most often on the United Kingdom (Alomes; Morton; Bennett and Pender), although, as Peter Conrad argued in his 2004 Boyer Lectures, more recently there has been a shift in the focus of expatriation with the emergence of other global capitals, in particular New York, which have joined and even replaced London as preferred destinations for the ambitious literary expatriate. ...they face the expatriate's worst fear-of being stranded between cultures, bereft of home or purpose.
...Nolan began working 'as if in a ferment of excitement' (Johnston 1967) in his studio at the Ghikas mansion, producing sheaves of experimental sketches relating to the Trojan War. ...sidelined, she ...perspicaciously observed the competitiveness of Hydra's budding expatriate culture, where 'everyone gives everyone else their things to read and wants to know what they think . . . and each in turn says Wonderful out of one side of their mouths and Crap out the other' (Kinnane 158). According to these versions of the story, the fire was deliberately lit, with the culprit purportedly motivated by loyalty to Tiggie, the first Mrs Ghikas, after Ghikas's marriage to Hutchinson. ...Ghikas did return for brief visits to Hydra, and was filmed in the port for a documentary (Maros), but he never saw the ruins of his house (Arapoglou 76).
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