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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.
+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
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ 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
+construct 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, 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>
@@ -79,18 +79,15 @@ deregistration”</figcaption>
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 <p><img src="../aglaia/dereg2.png" /></p>
 <p>I perceive the document as a unit and as the fundamental symbolic
-interface of the bureaucratic network. The transformation of the
+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 artefacts and highlight the shrouded performative elements of these processes.</p>
-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
+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
 Radical Openness Festival in Linz, the City Hall of Rotterdam where I
-invited people to perform the play together, like a tiny theater.</p>
+invited people to perform the play together, like a tiny theatre.</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" />
@@ -112,7 +109,7 @@ of Act 5 and Act 6</figcaption>
 <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
+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
 in getting things done”(Butler,1997). Words as active agents. Bodies as
@@ -126,4 +123,4 @@ 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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