Dear Colleagues,

Performing Documents, a new research project based in Bristol, has
officially launched its new program at www.bristol.ac.uk/performing-docs.
We are currently seeking three postgraduates/emerging artists to
participate in a development workshop with Lin Hixon and Matthew Goulish.
Could you please circulate the following to anyone who might be
interested?

Thanks very much,
Johanna Linsley

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Lin Hixon and Matthew Goulish (formerly Goat Island) seek three
participants for a month-long development workshop in Bristol.
Participants will have to opportunity to work directly with these
internationally regarded artists as they develop a piece of work for their
new company Every house has a door. This new work is being developed as
part of Performing Documents, a major collaborative research project
looking at Live Art and its documents. The development workshop will take
place between 20 August – 14 September, and the results will be
performed as part of a day-long symposium at Arnolfini. The following
opportunities are available:

• 1 assistant to the director Lin Hixson: to keep notes on the
performance as it develops, support performer needs in rehearsal, and
assist with research.

• 2 choreographed stagehands: non-speaking performing roles,
changing the arrangement of objects, chairs, etc. between the segments of
the performance.

All three will need to be present at all rehearsals. There is a bursary of
£300 for each participant, to support your involvement.

TO APPLY

Please send a CV and covering letter (no longer than one sheet of A4) to
[log in to unmask] Outline your relevant background, and
interest in taking part. Deadline for applications is 15 June, 2012.
Successful applicants will be informed by early July.

ABOUT EVERY HOUSE HAS A DOOR

Every house has a door is Lin Hixson (director) and Matthew Goulish
(dramaturg). After a twenty-year collaboration as co-founders of Goat
Island, they have formed Every house has a door to create project-specific
collaborative performances with invited guests. This company seeks to
retain Goat Island’s narrow thematic focus and rigorous
presentation, but to broaden the canvas to include careful intercultural
collaboration, and its unfamiliar, even awkward, spectrum. Let us think of
these things always. Let us speak of them never. a bilingual performance
collaboration between U.S. and Croatian artists, premiered in Rijeka,
Croatia in 2010, and has been performed at Chicago’s Museum of
Contemporary Art, the Fusebox Festival in Austin Texas, and New
York’s COIL Festival at Performance Space 122. The dance performance
They’re Mending the Great Forest Highway was commissioned by the
Chicago Dancemakers’ Forum and will premier in Chicago in late 2012.
Every house has also presented collaborative lectures, taught workshops,
and co-produced the film Waking Things (2011) by Melika Bass. The company
has received support from The Fund for Mutual Understanding, the National
Performance Network’s Commissioning and Forth Fund, and The Driehaus
Foundation. Goulish and Hixson shared the United States Artists Ziporyn
Fellowship in 2009, and received honorary doctorates from Dartington
College of Arts 2007.

ABOUT PERFORMING DOCUMENTS

Performing Documents is a major collaborative research project which asks
how we are dealing with the remains of Live Art today. Drawing on
creative, curatorial and research strategies, this project stages a
wide-reaching investigation into the problems and potential of performance
and its documents. What are the stories performance tells about itself,
and what can these tell us about its wider cultural context? How can
performance remain a source for critical intervention while many of its
practitioners are increasingly embraced by established institutions, and
how can performance theorists resist notions of definitive histories and
final words? How can new generations of artists draw on the marks and
traces that earlier works have left behind?

Performing Documents is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
(AHRC) and hosted by University of Bristol, in partnership with Arnolfini
and In Between Time.





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Johanna Linsley
Research Assistant
Performing Documents