ABSTRACT
The concerns of this chapter are the relationships between confession and performance. This contribution might initially appear to sit uneasily in a collection that specifies ‘writing’ in its title, but performance, like writing, is always a ‘text’, and it is the textual instabilities of specific, live performance work that interest me here. Through examining the work of British performance artist, Bobby Baker, I propose the potential difference that the context of live performance makes to the confessional act. In live performance, the process of textual inscription and reinscription is a visibly embodied practice that is performed.
