MyFace Bookperformance (2014) is the first Bookperformance as a textual body and the inaugural piece of the Cy Mirol QUARTET, which consists of four texts composed in this performative nature. Content-wise, it is neither Mirol’s printed Facebook account nor an autobiography; rather, it serves as a multi-modal enactment of self-reflexive performance dynamics within the co-creative narrative space of digital media—qualifying it as a work of pure fictional literature. As its title suggests, MyFace Bookperformance invites readers into a critical-creative engagement with how social media affects the meaning and materiality of the printed book. The performance on the page begins with a letter from the beloved author to the beloved reader(s), asking:
“Shall We Reinvent Love?” It unfolds through scenes titled “The Lost Author,” “The Empty Notebook,” and “The White Pencil,” culminating in “All of Myself”—a section that invites the reader into active participation in the book’s performativity. The closing scene, the
“Bookperformance Manifesto”(11.11.11), presents Bookperformance not only as a worldview but also as an artistic and literary form articulated through seven foundational items. Unlike its Turkish version (2012),
MyFace Bookperformance (2014) was self-published to support academic research into the international reception of Bookperformance as practice. It has been set to perform across a 12-year period—2014 to 2026—during which it seeks its editor. Once this cycle is complete,
MyFace Bookperformance is set to be recalibrated and republished alongside the other three parts of the
QUARTET. Together, these works form a singular authorship performance, where fiction continually edges into fact, and the act of writing performs itself into history.