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<div id="content"><h1 id="talking-documents">Talking Documents</h1>
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alt="WDKA- Winjhaven Building- February 2024- reading of act0 and act1" />
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reading of act0 and act1</figcaption>
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<p>This project appeared as a need to explore potential bureaucratic
dramaturgies within the educational institution I was part as a student.
I was curious about educational bureaucratic mechanisms being driven by
smaller-scale paperwork struggles and peers narratives, stories and
experiences. However, unexpected emergencies - due to my eviction on the
31st of January 2024 - placed centrally my personal struggles unfolded
in parallel with the making period. I ended up conducting accidentally
auto-ethnography as the project was dynamically being reshaped due to
the material constraints of the bureaucratic timeline.</p>
<p>Talking Documents are performative bureaucratic text inspections that
intend to create temporal public interventions through performative
readings. I utilized the paperwork interface of my smaller-scale story
in order to unravel and foreground questions related to the role of
bureaucracy as less material border and as a regulatory mechanism
reflecting narratives, ideologies, policies.</p>
<p>Central element of this project is a seven-act scenario that
construct my personal paperwork story, unraveling the actual struggles
of my communication with the government. The body of the text of the
“theatrical” script is sourced from the original documents, email
threads as well as recordings of the conversations with the municipality
of Rotterdam I documented and archived throughout this period. I
preserved the sequence of the given sentences and by discarding the
graphic design of the initial forms, I structured and repurposed the
text into a playable scenario.</p>
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alt="Act 2 “Call with the municipality about the rejection of my application”" />
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the rejection of my application”</figcaption>
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alt="Act 7 “Confirmation document of my deregistration”" />
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deregistration”</figcaption>
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<p>I perceive the document as a unit and as the fundamental symbolic
interface of the bureaucratic network. The transformation of the
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materiality of a document into a scenario to be enacted collectively in
public aims to examine these artifacts and highlight the shrouded
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performative elements of these processes.</p>
<p>I see the collective readings of these scenarios as a way of instant
publishing and as a communal tool of inspecting bureaucratic bordering
infrastructures. How can these re-enactments be situated in different
institutional contexts and examine their structures? I organized a
series of performative readings of my own bureaucratic literature in
different spaces and contexts, pubic and semi-public WDKA, Art Meets
Radical Openness Festival in Linz, the City Hall of Rotterdam where I
invited people to perform the play together, like a tiny theater.</p>
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alt="Art Meets Radical Openness Festival Linz, Austria - May 2024 - Reading Act 2 and Act3 in the tent" />
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Linz, Austria - May 2024 - Reading Act 2 and Act3 in the
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<p><img src="../aglaia/AMRO_kamo.jpg" /></p>
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alt="City Hall Rotterdam - May 2024 - Reading of Act 5 and Act 6" />
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of Act 5 and Act 6</figcaption>
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<p>The marginal voices of potential applicants are embodying and
enacting a role. “The speech does not only describe but brings things
into existence”(Austin, 1975). My intention was to stretch the limits of
dramaturgical speech through vocalizing a document and turn individual
administrative cases into public ones. How do the inscribed words in the
documents are not descriptive but on the contrary “are instrumentalized
in getting things done”(Butler,1997). Words as active agents. Bodies as
low-tech “human microphones”. A group of people performs the
bureaucratic scenario in chorus, out loud, in the corridor of the
schools building, in the main hall, at the square right across, outside
of the municipality building.</p>
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<p>I documented and recorded these public acts and I re-created the
collectively voiced scenario. This audio piece is a constellation of
different recordings and soundscapes of these public moments, a vocal
archive, published in the graduation exhibition of XPUB in 2024.</p>
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