Dear Readers,
Who are you at your core? Do you play a character, or do you feel at home when all pretense has been stripped away? Do you push yourself to the limit for one feat of excellence, or do you use the chances you are given to learn about yourself and let others learn with you? To find the answers to these questions and more, we invite you to read Spiegeloog 440: Performance.
Cover by Jules Kotowicz
After some Words to Start, Zhen begins Performance by looking at the problematic history of movies like Waltz with Bashir, and the dilemma of how to fairly and accurately portray both sides of a conflict when one side has vastly more resources to tell its story. Nicole, in her Athena on birth order and personality, explores whether there’s any truth to the idea that being an only child, eldest child, and everything in between has an influence on who you grow up to be.
Performing can also push us. Exhaust us with both the search for perfection, and with the stress of day-to-day interaction. Izzy highlights one side of this with her piece on BDSM as a place with clear rules and without the ambiguity of social norms, and Laura focuses on I, Tonya, striving to be the best, and the psychological portrait of one of sport’s greatest scandals.
Looking inward, Nora’s piece on what ‘self’ is expressed in performance shows how performance can affect us and others around us. Jules then deconstructs The Life of a Showgirl and the misalignment of a good concept and questionable lyrics, before Sandra closes out the issue with a Bacchus on the struggles of showing your true self to the world, and embracing the you that only you are privy to.
As we welcome our latest editor in chief, Barnaba, we hope you enjoy this issue of Spiegeloog!
Barnaba & Jules
Dear Readers,
Who are you at your core? Do you play a character, or do you feel at home when all pretense has been stripped away? Do you push yourself to the limit for one feat of excellence, or do you use the chances you are given to learn about yourself and let others learn with you? To find the answers to these questions and more, we invite you to read Spiegeloog 440: Performance.
Cover by Jules Kotowicz
After some Words to Start, Zhen begins Performance by looking at the problematic history of movies like Waltz with Bashir, and the dilemma of how to fairly and accurately portray both sides of a conflict when one side has vastly more resources to tell its story. Nicole, in her Athena on birth order and personality, explores whether there’s any truth to the idea that being an only child, eldest child, and everything in between has an influence on who you grow up to be.
Performing can also push us. Exhaust us with both the search for perfection, and with the stress of day-to-day interaction. Izzy highlights one side of this with her piece on BDSM as a place with clear rules and without the ambiguity of social norms, and Laura focuses on I, Tonya, striving to be the best, and the psychological portrait of one of sport’s greatest scandals.
Looking inward, Nora’s piece on what ‘self’ is expressed in performance shows how performance can affect us and others around us. Jules then deconstructs The Life of a Showgirl and the misalignment of a good concept and questionable lyrics, before Sandra closes out the issue with a Bacchus on the struggles of showing your true self to the world, and embracing the you that only you are privy to.
As we welcome our latest editor in chief, Barnaba, we hope you enjoy this issue of Spiegeloog!
Barnaba & Jules
