Update 'aglaia/index.html'

aglaia/index.html

@@ -44,23 +44,23 @@ reading of act0 and act1</figcaption>
 dramaturgies within the educational institution I was part of 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>
+experiences. However, unexpected emergencies - my eviction on the
+31st of January 2024 - made central my personal struggles which then unfolded
+in parallel with the making period. I ended up conducting accidental
+auto-ethnography as the project was dynamically reshaped due to
+the material constraints of a 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
+readings. I utilised 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
+bureaucracy as a 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, unravelling the actual struggles
+<p>A central element of this project is a seven-act scenario that
+constructs my personal paperwork story, unravelling 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
+of Rotterdam that 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>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ publishing and as a communal tool for 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
+different spaces and contexts, pubic and semi-public WDKA, the Art Meets
 Radical Openness Festival in Linz, the City Hall of Rotterdam where I
 invited people to perform the play together, like a tiny theatre.</p>
 <figure>
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ of Act 5 and Act 6</figcaption>
 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 turning individual
-administrative cases into public ones. How do the inscribed words in the
-documents are not descriptive but on the contrary “are instrumentalized
+administrative cases into public ones. How are the inscribed words in the
+documents not descriptive but on the contrary “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