#dan sack

This project was inspired by a writing exercise in Daniel Sack's graduate course Introduction to Performance Theory at UMass Amherst. Dan asked us to read a selection from Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse and then make a list of "figures" of the topic of our final paper. Finally, he asked us to produce some sustained writing on a handful of these figures and share them in class.  My original paper topic was an attempt to bring together theories of performance and queer archives to discuss the performance art of Sharon Hayes. The project has morphed a bit since then.