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Autobiography and Performance Introduction
Introduction John Humphries: You’ve exploited being Tracey Emin. Tracey Emin: But I am Tracey Emin. (On the Ropes, BBC R4, 24 July 2001) The Attraction of Autobiographical Performance I think it was 1988 when I saw Bobby Baker’s Drawing on a Mother’s Experience.
Then, I was a second year undergraduate student at the University of Glasgow, studying Theatre, Sociology and English.
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Though uneasy about constructing a linear narrative which looks back from the present and arranges the past into a series of stepping stones that comfortably leads me to here, to this Introduction, I do consider Bobby Baker’s performance a ‘beginning’ of some sort.
Drawing on a Mother’s Experience was my first experience of explicitly autobiographical performance, and it is an experience that I have drawn on ever since.1 Another beginning might be feminism, to which I was also introduced during my second year at university.
Feminism brought home to me that politics
