ABSTRACT
National Theatre Wales’s Tide Whisperer was a headphone performance in and around Tenby in West Wales, a piece that situated the individual spectator and the audience as a group interestingly. For Antonio Damasio, the Cartesian model of a division between mind and body has been discredited once and for all by discoveries about the mechanisms by which the body is fitted for its environment, coupled to it, and always already finding itself in the situation of having to respond to it and to maintain homeostasis – the organic conditions necessary for survival. Though enactivists are sceptical about a proper distinction between experiencing subject and experienced object, experience seems to be continuously directed towards objects, in what phenomenology terms an intentional relationship. A safety warning can be attached to the idea of the subject’s constitution of its world, however, and around the appropriation of the Heideggerian verbiage of ‘worlding’ in particular.
