386 Karine Lan Hing Ting, Dimitri Voilmy, Monika Büscher, and Drew Hemment
a long time. The second participant’s actions seem to “copy” parts of his
doings: first in deciding to take a picture, second by positioning himself to do
so next to him. These actions make visible the participants’ common sense
understanding of “something unusual happening” that deserves recording
and of a “good angle” for capturing it. A face-to-face positioning is the com-
monsensically expected arrangement of audience to performers (Goffman
1981). At this point, it is important to examine how the audience formation
is accomplished in relation to the way the agents positioned their bodies –
both in terms of their pose and their distribution “spread out” in space – in
relation ...