Through the Looking Glass – 2014 – 32 pages – lecture notes – Self edited
Magic is an art of imagination, imagination has no trickery, neither does the magic.
These lecture notes were prepared for Gabi’s participation at Buffalo Get Together in October 2014, a year later they were re-edited in a more suitable format for The Session 2016 where Gabi delivered a lecture.
There notes are divided in three parts, each of them is based on theoretical article previously written by Gabi that that was rewritten for the occasion.
PART I: THE PRESTIDIGITATOR AND THE MAGIC SELF
Text: “APPROACHING “FICTIONAL MAGIC”
Featuring “the Artistic communicative process” and the routine “I have as much as you”
PART II: THE SPECTATOR AND THE AUDIENCE
Text: “EDUCATING THE SPECTATOR’S GAZE”
Featuring Arturo de Ascanio’s “Sliding Gaze”, “Formal Design” and “the Waiter Theory”
PART III: THE MAGIC AND THE MAGIC ACT
Text “BEYOND” THE METHOD”
Featuring “TWO SUBJECTIVITIES”, “TRICK VS MAGIC” and reflections about the magic experience and the spectator
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