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KEY QUESTIONS SET DURING MY AHRC FELLOWSHIP
  • Memories of most everyday events are transformed, distorted or forgotten. How do these plausible, but often inaccurate elaborations of previous experiences aid the construction of theatrical material?
  • How does personal presence in performance make the self available to the viewer?
  • How does the performer’s relationship to the audience change when translated through non-live media?
  • Is the current use of personal testimony and autobiography as forms of artistic representation reflective of the value people place on the authority of personal experience?


for further reading...


Daniel L. Schacter  ‘Memory Distortion’ How Minds, Brains and Societies Reconstruct the Past  [Harvard University Press]

Daniel L. Schacter  ‘The Seven Sins of Memory’ How the Mind Forgets and Remembers  [Harvard University Press]

Rusiko Bourtchouladze  ‘Memories Are Made of This’ (the biological building blocks of memory)  [Phoenix]

Oliver Sacks  ‘Uncle Tungsten’  [Picador]

William Knaus Ed.D.  ‘The Procrastination Workbook’  [New Harbinger Publications] 

William G. McCown  ‘Procrastination and Task Avoidance’  [Plenum Publishing]

Jonathan Margolis  ‘A Brief History of Tomorrow’

Michael Apted  ‘7up’  [William Heinemann]

Steven Rose  ‘The Making of Memory’ (from molecules to mind)  [Vintage]

Erik H. Erikson  ‘A Way of Looking at Things’ (selected papers from 1930 to 1980)  [Norton]

Lorna Sage  ‘Moments of Truth’  [4th Estate]

Carolyn Steedman  ‘Past Tenses’ (essays on writing, autobiography and history)  [Rivers Oram Press]

A R. Luria  ‘The Mind of a Mnemonist’ (a little book about a vast memory) [Harvard University Press]

Ziauddin Sardar  ‘Desperately Seeking Paradise’  Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim [Granta Books]

Douwe Draaisma  ‘Why Live Speeds Up As You Get Older’ (How Memory Shapes Your Past)  [Cambridge University Press]

Spalding Gray  ‘Swimming to Cambodia’ – the collected works  [Picador]