ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the piece win > < win, by Berlin-based performance company Rimini Protokoll, as a means to explore the potential for complicity in affective states between audience and performer, especially in works that might be understood as co-created or co-constitutive. By focusing upon work that requires an audience for completion, the people seek to negotiate what Jones and Stephenson refer to as the 'complicity of the audience' in not only in the making of meaning, but also in the wider entanglement of shared affect. A Baradian neologism, it explores the way that the people experience the world as a negotiation between ontological and epistemological framing. In a publication that explicitly foregrounds an interrogation of the term ‘affect’ it is perhaps somewhat redundant to spend too long on a consideration of its meaning. The neologism of audiencing affords an embracing of intra-action, foregrounding as it does a co-constitutive approach, one that requires a ‘with-ness’, ensuring the people remain in-between.
