Articulating breath: Writing Charcot’s hysteric with performance writing

Abstract

The overlap between the visual and textual in practice research provides an opportunity to explore ways of presenting knowledge through performance writing. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a performance writing practice can be incorporated into and shape research writing. This text uses descriptions of Jean-Martin Charcot’s photographic documentation, medical–historical documents and the deconstruction thereof to create a piece that demonstrates performance writing as a means to bridging practice research and research writing.