F i c t i o n a l w o r l d s
P u b l i c S p a c e
a s S t r u c t u r e s f o r
P e r f o r m a n c e s
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This text begins with politics and ends with aesthetics, charting a line that connects events to performance. Read it in its entirety here, or follow a more arbitrary path amongst the icons of fictional types below.
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Commonly used types of fiction, in literature, performance, architecture, economics, scientific models, and in politics. The icons make a loose set, each referring to power systems.
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The meandering path offers a chance to contemplate, to be lost or to encounter suprising new connections.
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TEXT PART III
A brief introduction to artist and theorists who elaborate on fiction as a way of doing, identified through 8 types.
Reflection on my own Public Space Performance experiments, viewed through the context of the 8 types of fiction.
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In keeping with fiction as method, the screenplay here is a device linking the realm of possibility to the known certainty of facts that have already taken place. The meeting of Donald Trump & Kim Jung-un is retold by the fictional translators Kublai Khan & Marco Polo, in a parallel world to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
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