Not for nothing did Mr. Foote give his ambitious cycle of nine plays the collective title "The Orphans' Home".
Collective self-deception understood in either the summative or non-summative sense raises a number of significant questions such as whether individuals within collectives bear responsibility for their self-deception or the part they play in the collective's self-deception, whether collective entities can be held responsible for their epistemic failures.
This young band, led by British sax player and composer Sam Crockett, played the Loop Collective's mini-festival last weekend, and have been making ripples at the contemporary end of the local scene for months.
Like Frederick Forsyth's recent Avenger, Due Preparations for the Plague plays on the collective nightmares of the West after 9/11.
Davis Love III, meanwhile, seemed to side with Els, saying that Woods plays with the collective psyche of the field.
This picture plays on the collective response to his hair-trigger intensity, but Mr. Stiller doesn't respond very well.
It's meditative but also pretty overwhelming, and having played with the collective band Oneida for years, Mr. Colpitts knows how repetition can become a transformative, almost physical force.
His whole approach to the game was non-systematic: he was spontaneous, not disciplined, and got by on the strength of his individual skill and virtuosity, rather than playing for the collective according to a rigorously defined plan.
–What role does art play in the collective memory of a society?
My example involves the effect of personal mood on the reception of a play but the collective spirit of actors or theatre-goers can also have a significant impact on how a show goes.
And then there are the people who literally play with fire like the collective Spark Fire Dance, who describe themselves as "eco flamethrowers".
