When you get into a stage situation of aluminum walls and shiny metal, it can be a problem.
Different behaviour suits different stages, situations and people.
Mr. Sehgal, 31, who lives in Berlin, creates what he calls "staged situations": interactive experiences that may not even initially declare themselves as works of art.
She and her colleagues analyze prosody cues like pitch, pauses, emphasis and volume in natural rather than staged situations, for instance, as people talk to one another in meetings or on the telephone, or when they try to get information from a computer at a call center.
We've all heard the accounts of dogs leaping to the rescue, pulling children from the water when the ice cracks, and so on, but Horowitz points out that, in staged situations of crisis, dogs don't leap to the rescue or even try to get help.
Another method of sample acquisition is provoking an emotional reaction by using drugs or staged situations.
In most of my tests — both in staged situations and live shooting — there was a bit of a problem when trying to grab images in bad lighting conditions, even when holding the camera completely still.
A native of Mexico City, Yoshua Okón's work is like a series of near-sociological experiments executed for the camera through blending staged situations, documentation and improvisation.
The huge number of people who wept, she thinks, was brought on by this staged situation in which "there is nowhere to go except in yourself.
"Then I found out he was running against Congressman Gibson and I thought that this was all a little bit of a staged situation".
