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<div id="content"><h1 id="talking-documents">Talking Documents</h1>
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<img src="../aglaia/wijnhaven.JPG"
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alt="WDKA- Winjhaven Building- February 2024- reading of act0 and act1" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">WDKA- Winjhaven Building- February 2024-
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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
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dramaturgies within the educational institution I was part as a student.
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I was curious about educational bureaucratic mechanisms being driven by
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smaller-scale paperwork struggles and peers’ narratives, stories and
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experiences. However, unexpected emergencies - due to my eviction on the
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31st of January 2024 - placed centrally my personal struggles unfolded
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in parallel with the making period. I ended up conducting accidentally
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auto-ethnography as the project was dynamically being reshaped due to
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the material constraints of the bureaucratic timeline.</p>
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<p>Talking Documents are performative bureaucratic text inspections that
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intend to create temporal public interventions through performative
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readings. I utilized the paperwork interface of my smaller-scale story
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in order to unravel and foreground questions related to the role of
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bureaucracy as less material border and as a regulatory mechanism
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reflecting narratives, ideologies, policies.</p>
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<p>Central element of this project is a seven-act scenario that
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construct my personal paperwork story, unraveling the actual struggles
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of my communication with the government. The body of the text of the
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“theatrical” script is sourced from the original documents, email
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threads as well as recordings of the conversations with the municipality
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of Rotterdam I documented and archived throughout this period. I
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preserved the sequence of the given sentences and by discarding the
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graphic design of the initial forms, I structured and repurposed the
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text into a playable scenario.</p>
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<img src="../aglaia/call1.png"
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alt="Act 2 “Call with the municipality about the rejection of my application”" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Act 2 “Call with the municipality about
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the rejection of my application”</figcaption>
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<p><img src="../aglaia/call2.png" /></p>
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<img src="../aglaia/dereg1.png"
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alt="Act 7 “Confirmation document of my deregistration”" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Act 7 “Confirmation document of my
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deregistration”</figcaption>
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<p><img src="../aglaia/dereg2.png" /></p>
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<p>I perceive the document as a unit and as the fundamental symbolic
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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
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public aims to examine these artifacts and highlight the shrouded
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performative elements of these processes.</p>
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<p>I see the collective readings of these scenarios as a way of instant
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publishing and as a communal tool of inspecting bureaucratic bordering
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infrastructures. How can these re-enactments be situated in different
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institutional contexts and examine their structures? I organized a
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series of performative readings of my own bureaucratic literature in
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different spaces and contexts, pubic and semi-public WDKA, Art Meets
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Radical Openness Festival in Linz, the City Hall of Rotterdam where I
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invited people to perform the play together, like a tiny theater.</p>
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<img src="../aglaia/AMRO_all.jpg"
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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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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Art Meets Radical Openness Festival –
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Linz, Austria - May 2024 - Reading Act 2 and Act3 in the
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tent</figcaption>
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<p><img src="../aglaia/AMRO_kamo.jpg" /></p>
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<img src="../aglaia/gemeente_front.jpg"
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alt="City Hall Rotterdam - May 2024 - Reading of Act 5 and Act 6" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">City Hall Rotterdam - May 2024 - Reading
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of Act 5 and Act 6</figcaption>
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<img src="../aglaia/statue_garden.jpg" alt="The garden of Gemeente" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">The garden of Gemeente</figcaption>
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<p>The marginal voices of potential applicants are embodying and
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enacting a role. “The speech does not only describe but brings things
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into existence”(Austin, 1975). My intention was to stretch the limits of
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dramaturgical speech through vocalizing a document and turn individual
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administrative cases into public ones. How do the inscribed words in the
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documents are not descriptive but on the contrary “are instrumentalized
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in getting things done”(Butler,1997). Words as active agents. Bodies as
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low-tech “human microphones”. A group of people performs the
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bureaucratic scenario in chorus, out loud, in the corridor of the
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school’s building, in the main hall, at the square right across, outside
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of the municipality building.</p>
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<p>I documented and recorded these public acts and I re-created the
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collectively voiced scenario. This audio piece is a constellation of
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different recordings and soundscapes of these public moments, a vocal
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archive, published in the graduation exhibition of XPUB in 2024.</p>
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