Document Type
Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
For some time now I have been interested in autobiographical performance -- some form of the theatrical, in which performers explicitly use personal material in their work. Within this general field of autobiography and performance, one area of research concerns performances that are dependent on being located in personalised space -- what could be called, then, site-specific autobiographical performance. A recent example of this would be the performance Bubbling Tom (2000), by the UK based performer Mike Pearson, which saw Pearson return to the village of his childhood, to reflect upon and re-enact certain memories, events and persons associated with his five year old self, in that place [1]. (Incidentally, Pearson describes his working process as being archaeological [2], and I am yet to wonder about the crossing of archaeology with autobiography, and how those discourses and practices might inflect, affect or spin each other in revealing or challenging ways. But that's another route.)
Repository Citation
Heddon, Deirdre. "Autotopography: Graffiti, Landscapes, & Selves." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 3, 2002, pp. 1–20. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss3/4
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