In it he talks about SPACE as being “the imaginary building of our relationship to the world”, and which is distinct from TOPOS (“real, geographical, measurable space”).

I want to quote him at length here:

“… space – not the topos – is in fact an imaginary space of action. It doesn’t exist. There is no contact with space out of time and history. The context and my history give the affordance [a term Hubert has borrowed from perceptual psychologist, James Gibson] of what can happen in terms of whole-body gesture and movement. Any why that? Because the space in fact doesn’t exist; it’s a space of action. And this action-space is phenomenological, if you will. The phenomenon of space is sensory based, unique to each person, and time dependent.”

I guess what he discusses reminded me of your post above. In terms of “escaping history” — but the article itself is wonderfully rich for considering context in performance, and the bringing of “self” (in relation to space) to an awareness of expectation, sociological and geographical context, and subjectivity.

But let’s read it and then talk.

ske