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<div id="content"><h1 id="talking-documents">Talking Documents</h1>
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<h3 id="section"></h3>
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<p>Talking Documents are performative bureaucratic text inspections
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using auto-ethnographical means that intend to create temporal public
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interventions through performative readings.</p>
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<p>While I had this inherent concern about borders and bureaucratic
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structures in relation to migration, I decided to start zooming in and
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explore my own bureaucratic surroundings through my personal lens. As a
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student, I was eager to understand and dig into the educational
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institutions’ bureaucratic mechanisms being driven by smaller-scale
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bureaucratic struggles and peers’ narratives, stories and experiences.
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My starting point were concerns and a need to explore potential
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bureaucratic dramaturgies within the educational institution I am
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currently part as a student. However, unexpected emergencies placed
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centrally my personal bureaucratic struggles that were being unfolded in
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parallel with the making period. Accordingly, this project was
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dynamically being reshaped due to the material constraints of the
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bureaucratic timeline. I utilized the paperwork interface of my
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smaller-scale story in order to unravel and foreground questions related
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to the role of bureaucracy as less material border and as a mechanism of
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regulation that reflects narratives, ideologies, policies of the
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state.</p>
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<p>The scenario Central element of this project is a seven-act scenario
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that construct my personal paperwork story, unraveling the actual
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struggles of my communication with the government due my recent eviction
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on the 31st of January 2024. The body of the text of the “theatrical”
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script is sourced from the original documents, email threads as well as
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recordings of the conversations with the municipality of Rotterdam that
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I documented and archived throughout this period. I preserved the
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sequence of the given sentences and by discarding the graphic design of
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the initial forms, I structured and repurposed the text into a playable
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scenario. I perceive the document as a unit and the primary interface of
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the bureaucratic network. The embedded performativity of “real”
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bureaucratic rituals establishes and empowers (bureaucratic)
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institutions through repetitive acts. The transformation of the
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materiality of a document into a scenario to be enacted collectively in
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public attempts to examine these artifacts and highlight the shrouded
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performative elements of these processes.</p>
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<p>The public readings of the scenario I see the collective readings of
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these scenarios as a way of instant publishing and as a communal tool of
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inspecting bureaucratic bordering infrastructures. How can these
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re-enactments be situated in different institutional contexts and
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examine their structures? I am particularly interested in the
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site-specificity of these “acts”. I organized a series of performative
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readings of my own bureaucratic literature in different spaces and
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contexts, pubic and semi-public, like Leeszaal, WDKA, Art Meets Radical
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Openness Festival in Linz, the City Hall of Rotterdam where I invited
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people to perform the play together, like a theater. The marginal voices
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of potential applicants are embodying and enacting a role. “The speech
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does not only describe but brings things into existence”(Austin, 1975).
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My intention was to stretch the limits of dramaturgical speech through
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vocalizing a document and turn individual administrative cases into
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public ones. How do the inscribed words in the documents are not
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descriptive but on the contrary “are instrumentalized in getting things
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done”(Butler,1997). Words as active agents. Bodies as low-tech “human
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microphones”. A group of people performs the bureaucratic scenario in
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chorus, out loud, in the corridor of the school’s building, in the main
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hall, at the square right across, outside of the municipality
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building.</p>
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<p>I documented and recorded these public acts and I re-created the
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collectively vocalised and transformed scenario. This audio piece is a
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constellation of different recordings and soundscapes of these public
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moments that I edited and collaged into a single story that could
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constitute a vocal archive.</p>
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<p>I am inviting past and future applicants, traumatized students,
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injured bearers, bureaucratic border crossers, stressed expired document
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holders to share, vocalize, read out loud, amplify, (un)name, dismantle
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the injurious words of these artifacts.</p>
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<p>[images] [Leeszaal West Rotterdam - 7th of November 2023 – People
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queuing to receive their documents] [WDKA- Winjhaven Building- 5th of
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February 2024- reading of act0 “” and act1 “”] [Art Meets Radical
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Openness Festival – Linz, Austria - 11th of May 2024 - Reading act 2””
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and act3 “” in the tent] x2 [City Hall Rotterdam- 30th of May 2024 -
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Reading of act 5 “” and act 6 “”] x2 [XML at XPUB studio - January 2024
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- Passport Reading Session] [BOOKLET 1] [BOOKLET 2]</p>
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