Something akin to performance but not exactly; the core of the experience is not in the witnessing of a performance, but rather the construction, choreography, and execution of a collective experience that orients the group towards the senses in new ways. Often I am working with non-ocular (non-visual) senses, especially touch and smell. Some performative techniques are utilized but only in the service of facilitating the group experience. The core of the work is the sensual discovery, exploration, exchange and liberation happening among the participants; and the resultant relations that are formed.
Joseph Beuys wrote of 'social sculpture,' - "a social organism as a work of art" - lending people first-hand experiences of freedom, aspiring to catalyze the "remaking of the future social order." Communal Sensorial Experiences share something of this notion, but I position them much more humbly, and root these experiences in the body, often with the natural environment. Often, new understandings, new perspectives, and new relations do emerge.