Performance/Art explores the phenomenology of skilled performance,
ranging from athletics to the performing arts, including music, dance
and acting. Gallagher reviews a variety of studies concerning different
degrees of mindful awareness operative in performance, and builds on the
concept of a meshed architecture, suggesting ways to make it more
complex and dynamic. He draws on ideas from enactivist embodied
cognition about how different types of movement can be meaningful and
intelligent and can scaffold learning and problem solving. He also
explicates the notion of an empathic mindfulness in performance and
develops the idea of a double attunement to explain aesthetic experience
in performance, distinguishing the latter from aesthetic experience in
the observer/audience perspective.