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 <div id="content"><h1 id="talking-documents">Talking Documents</h1>
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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 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
 materiality of a document into a scenario to be enacted collectively in
 public aims to examine these artifacts and highlight the shrouded
 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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 <img src="../aglaia/AMRO_all.jpg"
 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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 <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
 school’s building, in the main hall, at the square right across, outside
 of the municipality building.</p>
 <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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