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In thinking about our workshop and in relation to that, about performances that fold or unfold autobiography, place and satellites, I though that probably is most appropriate to use something that Deirdre Heddon calls autotopography. Topos comes from the Greek word for place, wile | In thinking about our workshop and in relation to that, about performances that fold or unfold autobiography, place and satellites, I though that probably is most appropriate to use something that Deirdre Heddon calls autotopography. Topos comes from the Greek word for place, wile | ||
graphein means to scratch, to draw, to write; topography, then, signifies the writing of place. Autotopography intends to foreground the subjectivity involved in plotting place; autotopography is writing place through self (and simultaneously writing self through place). Autotopography is a creative act of seeing, interpretation and invention, all of which depends on where are you standing, when and for what purpose. This sort of mapping allows you to write the unknown or unrecognized route. | graphein means to scratch, to draw, to write; topography, then, signifies the writing of place. Autotopography intends to foreground the subjectivity involved in plotting place; autotopography is writing place through self (and simultaneously writing self through place). Autotopography is a creative act of seeing, interpretation and invention, all of which depends on where are you standing, when and for what purpose. This sort of mapping allows you to write the unknown or unrecognized route. | ||