Cy Mirol is a research assistant in Authorship Studies. Her research, originating in Authorship as Performance, has evolved from theoretical foundations to practical applications in the arts and literature. In this context, she develops Bookperformance—a term she coined in 2011, articulated through the declaration of its academic manifesto—to reconfigure the nature of the book and, ultimately, the performance of self-reflexive narratives that are both literary and artistic. This exploration is grounded in relevant historical and philosophical contexts, including deconstruction, modernism, and orientation. It reflects on sound-wise sophisticated and thought-wise challenging textual works to contextualize the evolution of self-reflexive consciousness and author-reader interactions on pages and stages (of life). Bookperformance thereby asserts the book’s ontological status as performance, revealing its co-authored nature and entanglement with evolving text technologies. Its inquiry raises foundational questions such as: Who is the author? How do we read? What is a book? What is a performance? and eventually, What is Bookperformance? Its resonance unfolds in Mirol’s own literary and artistic output, serving as practice-driven research embodying a worldview through its aesthetics of co-creativity. www.bookperformance.com
