Performing Deviance: A Photo Essay on "manuscript Performance"
Isabel Pinto
Abstract
This photo essay documents a creative pathway initiated by a feeling of unsettlement within my research on eighteenth-century manuscript plays, which ended in a live performance framed by the broader question: How does one live surrounded by manuscripts or, in other words, how to do things with manuscripts. Personal narrative was a strategy to link my everyday archive research to a one night performance during which I tried to disclose plainly the awkwardness of communicating through manuscripts. My communication efforts were shaped by physical responses to an environment that was characterised by many boundaries, mainly those resulting from my own manuscript immersion. I wanted to communicate but manuscripts were all I had.
This photo essay documents a creative pathway initiated by a feeling of unsettlement within my research on eighteenth-century manuscript plays, which ended in a live performance framed by the broader question: How does one live surrounded by manuscripts or, in other words, how to do things with manuscripts. Personal narrative was a strategy to link my everyday archive research to a one night performance during which I tried to disclose plainly the awkwardness of communicating through manuscripts. My communication efforts were shaped by physical responses to an environment that was characterised by many boundaries, mainly those resulting from my own manuscript immersion. I wanted to communicate but manuscripts were all I had.
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