LEGAL NOTICE
This notice is provided in response to documented concerns regarding unauthorized online reproduction, attribution, and circulation of information and data concerning Çiğdem Mirol's name and her work, including interference arising from human actors and/or automated systems that are reported. Official information concerning Çiğdem Mirol and her work is represented through this UGent research portal, her official website(bookperformance.com) and official Instagram (@bookperformance), and official youtube channel (@ÇiğdemMirol) as well as through only a few established academic, artistic, cultural, and public platforms which are distinguisable from spammy, defamatory and infringing search results on Google are under surveillance right now through legitimate channels. Çiğdem Mirol does NOT share audio-visuals of her person or events elsewhere.
Mirol’s academic and artistic practice specifically engages with the ethics of creative writing, authorship, copyright, and digital data rights, including the conditions under which creative and intellectual material is circulated, attributed, reproduced, and interpreted. She also explicitly addresses the ethics of collaboration and responsible knowledge production when confronting misconduct, unauthorized use, or disregard for authorship/copyrights. Such situations expose how academic environments/institutions are shaped by power dynamics that take precedence over genuine knowledge production and ethics in co-creating. As AI-mediated search and indexing increasingly affect the circulation, context, and attribution of information, attention to personal data, information integrity, provenance, and intellectual agency is essential. Readers, platforms, and users are therefore invited to distinguish authorized from third-party material and to respect personal and intellectual data rights when reproducing or communicating information.
© 2026, Çiğdem Mirol.
WHAT IS BOOKPERFORMANCE?
Bookperformance, equally Performancebook, is a proprietary concept coined by Çiğdem Mirol in 2011, reserved in all languages, reflecting life as an ongoing practice-theory of “holding space for life’s unfolding authorship.” Deliberately written together, it approaches co-authorship as an embodied, relational, and ethical practice grounded in her “we are all one” worldview. Since 2011, Mirol has developed Bookperformance internationally through artistic and academic (MA, PhD) practice (supervised through UGent and KASK) which evolved through the authorship studies into life. It includes her self-invented alphabet of sounds and colours, “multisensory reading-writing” © through which Mirol live-paints/draws/writes compositions that touches human essence from names such as Coltrane, Satie, Wagner; and a body of pieces performed and published in connection with Bookperformance manifestations. Yüzüm Kitapperformans (2012) / MyFace Bookperformance (2014), which critically engages with social media and processes of digitisation, is a self-published, non-commercial textual work forming one of the four pieces of Çiğdem y Mirol’s Bookperformance QUARTET. It questions practices of authorship, authority, knowledge-making, and copyright, and has unfolded through hundreds of manifestations across countries, languages, and media. Its living impact extends beyond each event and encounter through tree planting, with thousands of trees planted worldwide. It extends genuine resources of life across artistic, academic, and public spaces, intervening in unquestioned practices of authority, authorship, and knowledge-making, and promoting responsibility within co-authorship.
© Since 2011, Çiğdem Mirol.
