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New York University (NYU) Steinhardt’s Verbatim Performance Lab (VPL) investigates and performs words and gestures collected from found media artifacts and interview-based data, and through these investigations VPL aims to disrupt assumptions, biases, and intolerances across a spectrum of political, cultural, and social narratives. VPL defines a verbatim performance as the precise portrayal of an actual person using their exact speech and gestural patterns, literally word for word and gesture for gesture. Verbatim performance emerges through an actor’s objective and precise investigation of a particular moment using audio and/or video and a verbatim scored transcript of the words spoken during that moment. VPL’s innovative theatre performances are based on popular political media clips or interviews, but feature a manipulation or change of one or more identity attributes of the original speaker(s), such as gender, race, ethnicity, or age. That is, for example, if the original clip featured a male politician, in the performance, the politician is portrayed by a woman. Our study seeks to examine if a VPL intervention, in which viewers watch a verbatim performance of a political debate where candidates are portrayed by actors of a different gender, different race, or both different gender and race, has an effect on viewers’ awareness of personal biases. |
