Dear friends and colleagues,
We are excited to invite you to the second event of the Performing Documents project. Redux is a day-long symposium to be held at Arnolfini, Bristol on Saturday 8 December. Please join us for a packed day of discussion and performance that looks at artists using their own archives as creative resources.
The question of performance and its documents is often staged as a conflict between the ephemeral live event and the archivable evidence it leaves behind. In our last symposium, Remake, we asked how this question might be reframed when artists look to the archives of other artists in order to make new live work. This December, however, we ask artists to look to their own histories and archives. What changes when a work is repeated five, ten or twenty-five years later? How might looking back at collaboratively created works challenge our understanding of
'self-reflection'? Does the theatrical repertoire have anything to say to the Live Art archive? Through talks, discussion and newly commissioned work, Redux explores how performance might help re-think the timescales of the live and the liveness of history.
Our fantastic line-up of speakers includes a keynote presentation by renowned performance scholar Amelia Jones, and talks by international artists, scholars and theatre makers Terry O'Connor, Hancock & Kelly, Dominic Johnson, Amanda Coogan, Graeme Rose, Andrew Quick and Claire MacDonald.
Additionally, Performing Documents has commissioned Blast Theory and Bodies in Flight to create new pieces based on their own archives, both of which span multiple decades. We're very happy to premiere these pieces as part of the Redux symposium.
Performing Documents is funded by the AHRC, and hosted by the University
of Bristol, in partnership with University of Exeter, Arnolfini and In Between Time.
Tickets to Redux are £30 ( or £50 at institutionally supported rate).
There is an early registration rate of £25 (£40 institutional rate) if you
register by 19 November. To book tickets, visit
http://bristol.ac.uk/performing-docs.
See you in December!
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