Performance Studies

Met today with John and Gideon about my prospectus: both had a lot of helpful feedback.

Gideon was a little shocked at the sheer amount of different forms and ideas I'm playing with in the project and raised questions about how to keep it manageable. The end product of our discussion was a resolution to limit the critical introduction: instead of trying to explain everything I'm doing in the blogs, I'll focus specifically on performance theory and how the blogs are performative. Within that concept, there's room to discuss what it means to be in character in each blog, how the separate of the blogs is somewhat analogous to seeking out separate performance space, how revision has more to do with response to audience (and to an evolving sense of self) than with classical-model rewriting.

From now on, I'll try to frame my thoughts here in terms of performance theory, though I may take an occasional detour into whatever else I find interesting at the moment.