ABSTRACT

While pain pulls us to retreat into our personal experiences, the theory and practice of autoethnography invites us to offer the hyper-personal up as radical social engagement. Applying and adapting physical therapy techniques as movement vocabulary, this autoethnographic performance explores the empathic relationships that converge as individuals encounter the U.S. medical system, documents and describes living with pain, looks at practices of coping through crafting, and tackles difficult conversations around health and happiness. The performer and director build their performative relationship by challenging the interiority of conceptualizing pain and demonstrating the relations between empathy and performance.

摘要

痛苦使我们不得不退缩到个人经历中，而民族志学的理论和实践则邀请我们提供超个人主义作为激进的社会参与。通过应用物理疗法并将其用作运动词汇，这项民族志表现探索了人们在遇到美国医疗系统时的移情关系，记录并描述了痛苦的生活，研究了通过技巧应对的做法，并解决了围绕健康和幸福的艰难对话。表演者和导演通过挑战概念痛苦的内在性和证明移情与表演之间的关系来建立他们的表演关系。