Dr T. J. Bacon is an artist-philosopher whose practice, under the name TJB since 2020, extends across performance art and phenomenology. They are the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure, a biennial of international performance art staged in the UK since 2012. As a non-binary individual, xe advocates for the radical reimagining of traditional phenomenology and the application of a queer phenomenology in their study and making of performance. Their practice began in 2001 and has focused on the perception of the body and Being through a multiplicity of Self/s in performance art since 2009.

• AcknowledgementsForeword: Enduring Reorientations: Self, Time, and Space in PerformanceAuthor’s NoteIntroduction- Phenomenology- Eidetic Reduction - Self- DaseinSection One: Embodied Experience- Exercise 1- Flesh- Gestalt- Exercise 2Identity, Sexuality, and Gender- Exercise 3Lori BaldwinAnne Bean- Intersubjectivity- IntercorporealityRosana Cade and Will Dickie - Korper and Leib- World and BeingEsther Marveta Neff- ReciprocityNiko Wearden- Mineness- Exercise 4Cultural Contexts- Fundierung- Exercise 5Jamal Harewood- Exercise 6Regina José GalindoHealth and Dis/Ability- Exercise 7Katherine AranielloKamil Guenatri- GivennessSection Two: The Rapture and Rupture of the Lived Body- Cartesianism - Exercise 8Rapture- Exercise 9Rocio BoliverLouis FleischauerWeeks and Whitford- BefindlichkeitRupture- AlētheiaHellen BurroughArianna Ferrari- Exercise 10Ernst Fischer- Exercise 11Section Three: The Intersubjectivity and Intercorporeality of Noise and Sonic Arts- Exercise 12Sound through the BodySarah GlassJoke Lanz- Punctum- Mother DisorderSound through CollaborationFK AlexanderClive Henry and Yol- Exercise 13Section Four: The Perception of Self/s- Exercise 14Vulnerability- Exercise 15Helena GoldwaterNatalie RamusHelen SpackmanFailure- Exercise 16 Chelsea Coon Selina BonelliHeather Sincavage- Augenblick- Exercise 17 (Part 1 of 2)- Exercise 17 (Part 2 of 2)Extremis- Exercise 18tjbHancock and KellyNiko Raes- Exercise 19Postface: The Argument for Queering ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’- Manifesto for Performance Artist as Artwork NotesBibliography

Dr T. J. Bacon is an artist-philosopher whose practice, under the name TJB since 2020, extends across performance art and phenomenology. They are the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure, a biennial of international performance art staged in the UK since 2012. As a non-binary individual, xe advocates for the radical reimagining of traditional phenomenology and the application of a queer phenomenology in their study and making of performance. Their practice began in 2001 and has focused on the perception of the body and Being through a multiplicity of Self/s in performance art since 2009.

• AcknowledgementsForeword: Enduring Reorientations: Self, Time, and Space in PerformanceAuthor’s NoteIntroduction- Phenomenology- Eidetic Reduction - Self- DaseinSection One: Embodied Experience- Exercise 1- Flesh- Gestalt- Exercise 2Identity, Sexuality, and Gender- Exercise 3Lori BaldwinAnne Bean- Intersubjectivity- IntercorporealityRosana Cade and Will Dickie - Korper and Leib- World and BeingEsther Marveta Neff- ReciprocityNiko Wearden- Mineness- Exercise 4Cultural Contexts- Fundierung- Exercise 5Jamal Harewood- Exercise 6Regina José GalindoHealth and Dis/Ability- Exercise 7Katherine AranielloKamil Guenatri- GivennessSection Two: The Rapture and Rupture of the Lived Body- Cartesianism - Exercise 8Rapture- Exercise 9Rocio BoliverLouis FleischauerWeeks and Whitford- BefindlichkeitRupture- AlētheiaHellen BurroughArianna Ferrari- Exercise 10Ernst Fischer- Exercise 11Section Three: The Intersubjectivity and Intercorporeality of Noise and Sonic Arts- Exercise 12Sound through the BodySarah GlassJoke Lanz- Punctum- Mother DisorderSound through CollaborationFK AlexanderClive Henry and Yol- Exercise 13Section Four: The Perception of Self/s- Exercise 14Vulnerability- Exercise 15Helena GoldwaterNatalie RamusHelen SpackmanFailure- Exercise 16 Chelsea Coon Selina BonelliHeather Sincavage- Augenblick- Exercise 17 (Part 1 of 2)- Exercise 17 (Part 2 of 2)Extremis- Exercise 18tjbHancock and KellyNiko Raes- Exercise 19Postface: The Argument for Queering ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’- Manifesto for Performance Artist as Artwork NotesBibliography

Dr T. J. Bacon is an artist-philosopher whose practice, under the name TJB since 2020, extends across performance art and phenomenology. They are the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure, a biennial of international performance art staged in the UK since 2012. As a non-binary individual, xe advocates for the radical reimagining of traditional phenomenology and the application of a queer phenomenology in their study and making of performance. Their practice began in 2001 and has focused on the perception of the body and Being through a multiplicity of Self/s in performance art since 2009.

• AcknowledgementsForeword: Enduring Reorientations: Self, Time, and Space in PerformanceAuthor’s NoteIntroduction- Phenomenology- Eidetic Reduction - Self- DaseinSection One: Embodied Experience- Exercise 1- Flesh- Gestalt- Exercise 2Identity, Sexuality, and Gender- Exercise 3Lori BaldwinAnne Bean- Intersubjectivity- IntercorporealityRosana Cade and Will Dickie - Korper and Leib- World and BeingEsther Marveta Neff- ReciprocityNiko Wearden- Mineness- Exercise 4Cultural Contexts- Fundierung- Exercise 5Jamal Harewood- Exercise 6Regina José GalindoHealth and Dis/Ability- Exercise 7Katherine AranielloKamil Guenatri- GivennessSection Two: The Rapture and Rupture of the Lived Body- Cartesianism - Exercise 8Rapture- Exercise 9Rocio BoliverLouis FleischauerWeeks and Whitford- BefindlichkeitRupture- AlētheiaHellen BurroughArianna Ferrari- Exercise 10Ernst Fischer- Exercise 11Section Three: The Intersubjectivity and Intercorporeality of Noise and Sonic Arts- Exercise 12Sound through the BodySarah GlassJoke Lanz- Punctum- Mother DisorderSound through CollaborationFK AlexanderClive Henry and Yol- Exercise 13Section Four: The Perception of Self/s- Exercise 14Vulnerability- Exercise 15Helena GoldwaterNatalie RamusHelen SpackmanFailure- Exercise 16 Chelsea Coon Selina BonelliHeather Sincavage- Augenblick- Exercise 17 (Part 1 of 2)- Exercise 17 (Part 2 of 2)Extremis- Exercise 18tjbHancock and KellyNiko Raes- Exercise 19Postface: The Argument for Queering ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’- Manifesto for Performance Artist as Artwork NotesBibliography