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This chapter started as a dialogue between the two authors (Mark and Jay) conducted from different cities around the world that we happened to be in. It was a dialogue made up of ideas, on ‘citiness’ and performance, that arose from being in those diverse cities and how those ideas related to the city we live in, Cape Town. Over the course of the writing process the dialogue shifted from being between the two authors to being between more abstract ideas on how the city, Cape Town, performs itself and more concrete examples of performances taking place in Cape Town. In sofar as the voices of the different authors can be discerned in the chapter from time to time, this can be attributed to the history of the writing process but it also points to the relative distance of the authors to the works discussed, Jay having curated all of the works on a variety of platforms and Mark having a more distanced, spectatorial perspective.
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Fleishman, M., Pather, J. (2014). Performing Cape Town: An Epidemiological Study in Three Acts. In: Whybrow, N. (eds) Performing Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137455697_6
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