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Performance of The Brain Piece. Jody Oberfelder Projects. Photo credit: Kevin Konnyu.

into their present perceptions. The dance, and time in
the theater, is the interstice between what came before
and what comes after when they leave, and frames their
experience.
I want the audience to wonder.
I want the audience to experience a time–based collection of material—dance film, music, voice—that stimulates new neuronal pathways and connections. I want
the audience to feel bright, note the obvious, and decode
the cryptic, and to participate in tracking and personal
coding while making new memories.
I want the audience to be in relation to what we offer,
to have an internal experience of what they didn’t see or
notice before, to experience the brain in the body, working and playing.
I want audiences to connect the dots of experience
and connect the experience of the dots.

I want the audience to connect to their own minds’
fullness.
DM: Back in 2014, a writer from SciArt in America was

SciArt in America February 2016

an active audience member in your piece, 4Chambers. Engaging the audience is a big part of your projects—something you
explicitly state in your mission statement. What element does an
‘inex W&