ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the transformative relationship between the artwork Strategies for Leaving and Arriving Home and its audience. It focuses on how the mediation of the audience changes the nature of the walk, the notion of travel and consequently this project. As this artwork takes place outside of the theatre, the audience' in this context is not considered in a traditional sense, as people seated in front of the stage. In this current globalised economy, moving between cities is common for many people. Art historian Juliet Koss notes that: Einfuhlun offered a forum for abstract discussion of the active perceptual experience of the individual spectator it provided a potentially uncomfortable destabilisation of identity along the viewer's perceptual borders a sensation at once physical, psychological and emotional. The space of sympathetic magic happens in the distance between the artwork and the participant both the actual distance and the metaphysical distance that is created through the artistic structure.
