“I Thought I Knew You, Two”: A Performative Response to Norman Denzin and Tami Spry’s Wild West Show at ICQI 2018

Abstract

For the 2018 Autoethnography Special Interest Group at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), Norman Denzin and Tami Spry did an integrative co-performance of each other’s autoethnography linked with a western motif. Each of the originating pieces of their performance texts were pre-published in Special Issues edited by this author. The author of this piece was invited to engage a performative response to the performance, and ostensibly entered the textual and embodied performance as a third companion on a western journey discovering new insights of both presenters in the performance of each as the other. 1