“Performance’s only life is in teh present. Performance cannot be saved,recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in teh circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance”. Phelan. (Piccini A., Rye C., 2009, p.41)
“the act of documenting an event as [erformance constitutes it as such”. Auslander. (Piccini A., Rye C., 2009, p.42)
“Video is an unlikely medium to convey the multiplicity and simultaneity of live events. Videeo documentation of performance has tended toward the most basic rules of documentary realism by pointing the camera and shooting what is thre.Editing similarly obeys continuity editing conventions that seek to establish a spatial and temporal logic through the movement of bodies…the camera records precisely what is not seen by teh human eye”(Piccini A., Rye C., 2009, p.43)
Mitch ALLEN says, an autoethnographer must
“look at experience analytically. Otherwise [you’re] telling [your] story—and that’s nice—but people do that on Oprah [a U.S.-based television program] every day. Why is your story more valid than anyone else’s? What makes your story more valid is that you are a researcher. You have a set of theoretical and methodological tools and a research literature to use. That’s your advantage. If you can’t frame it around these tools and literature and just frame it as ‘my story,’ then why or how should I privilege your story over anyone else’s I see 25 times a day on TV?” (personal interview, May 4, 2006) [8]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1589/3095#g2