My manifesto consists of a collage-like use of my bibliography with the goal of composing a theoretical unity, in the specific frame I impose.
On the occasion of Georges Perec's book "Life: a user's manual", I introduce the concept of theatricality in habitation. I focus on the investigation of inhabiting as a performance. I initially set perform as a condition of social interaction and I search for it in the inhabitant's practices. Audience, stage, risk and shame, common and extraordinary are at this point my guiding sections. I expand the range of performing, perceiving consciousness as its main source now, and search for it also in the personal practices at home. In this way, I detect performing in terms of rehearsal, self-reference and self-reflection, guidings and symbolic-imaginary. The automatic-unconscious part of inhabiting, where I don't ascertain performance, I investigate it in terms of the broader concept of its performativity. I understand performativity of inhabiting referring to the identity of the inhabitant and to his space. I end up, with the three fields of perception of inhabiting: they see me, I see me, I do me, in a differentiation condition of the point of view in which I assume and understand it in my daily practical experience.
My text has been formed in a way that two parallel readings can take place. Theory develops simultaneously with the stories. Stories are quoted as I remember them or as they told/wrote them to me. My visual material comes from a research and editing on my own photographic file, as well as my family's home file.
