Gabi Pareras – Through the Looking Glass by Gabi Pareras
These lecture notes were prepared for Gabi’s participation at Buffalo Get Together in October 2014, a year later they were re-edited in a more suitable format for The Session 2016 where Gabi delivered a lecture.
There notes are divided in three parts, each of them is based on theoretical article previously written by Gabi that that was rewritten for the occasion.
PART I: THE PRESTIDIGITATOR AND THE MAGIC SELF
Text: “APPROACHING “FICTIONAL MAGIC”
Featuring “the Artistic communicative process” and the routine “I have as much as you”
PART II: THE SPECTATOR AND THE AUDIENCE
Text: “EDUCATING THE SPECTATOR’S GAZE”
Featuring Arturo de Ascanio’s “Sliding Gaze”, “Formal Design” and “the Waiter Theory”
PART III: THE MAGIC AND THE MAGIC ACT
Text “BEYOND” THE METHOD”
Featuring “TWO SUBJECTIVITIES”, “TRICK VS MAGIC” and reflections about the magic experience and the spectator
