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Title: | Quodlibet with Meninas | Authors: | GIL ULLDEMOLINS, Maria | Issue Date: | 2022 | Publisher: | MDPI | Source: | Arts, 11 (5) (Art N° 82) | Status: | Early view | Abstract: | In Diagrammatic Writing (2013), Johanna Drucker discusses the power dynamics between texts interacting on a page. So-called autotheoretical texts often engage in similar types of performative and relational lay-outs, and yet, not much has been written about this formal phenomenon. Bearing this in mind, I propose an experiment that performs relations by thinking with, and through, Las Meninas, a self-portrait that is not strictly about the self. All that surrounds Velázquez in the painting (the work-in-progress we do not see, the ensemble of courtly characters, the framed reproductions of masters’ works, the much-discussed mirror reflection) informs and contextualises the portrait, but also explodes it into much more. This paper thus attempts to ask whether autotheory can, by being aware of performative and diagrammatic writing, together with the use of images as citations, decentralise the auto- and become a more choral scene, a cluster, a textual quodlibet or medley. Can a form of writing make space for a multitude, or even, a multitude into a space? Can the autotheoretical self be only one more of many characters, present, with agency, but off-centred? | Keywords: | Meninas;autotheory;diagrammatic writing;performative writing;citationality;quodlibet | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/38055 | DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11050082 | ISI #: | 000874186300001 | Rights: | 2022 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | vabb 2024 |
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