©Monika Deimling, 2015

Bookperformance is how Cy Mirol interprets the evolving text technologies and the inseparable link between a book and its performance, manifesting a distinctive world-view that captures its historical context and foresees its future. Practically, it manifests as creative texts, improvised acts, and visuals and sounds created through resonance. Theoretically, it fosters co-creative acts to enhance understanding of human orientation and textual resonance, connecting individual and societal insights. It narrates a writer’s evolution into an author and showcases the transformation of a manuscript into a book, using narrative techniques and author-reader/audience interaction to encourage co-creation. Based on who initiates it, Bookperformance could be termed Author-Reader Performance or Reader-Author Performance. Rooted in the concept of “the absolute self” as love’s essence, it emphasizes “we are all one” through shared authority, love, and co-creation, focusing on diversity and transparency. These ideas are articulated in the 7 universal principles of the Bookperformance Manifesto, stemming from Cy's MA research on reception theories and self-referential literary works as artistic performances. She is further developing Bookperformance in her PhD research.