Dear friends and colleagues,
We invite your proposals for papers, presentations, and other less traditional formats for the Performing Documents conference on 12-14 April.
In recent years, 'the archive', 'the document', and other forms of preserving, recording and revisiting performance have become near-ubiquitous themes for international exhibitions, festivals and academic symposia. What does this pre-occupation say about the state of performance making and its institutions? Has there been a shift in the way performance is seen, understood and historicized? In what ways should we celebrate the creative potentials for the re-use of performance documentation and archival materials, and in what ways might we be
critical of it?
Performing Documents is a three-year research project that looks at these questions. In our September symposium 'Remake', we considered how artists
might look to other artists' archives to make new work, and in our upcoming 8 December symposium, we consider issues with artists' returning to their own archives. On 12-14 April 2013, we will be opening up the conversation to a range of responses. We are seeking papers of 15 minutes which address the themes of Performing Documents. We will also happily consider proposals for curated panels, and for presentations which take a variety of forms. Possible themes include (but are not limited to):
- The use of performance archives towards the creation of new performance
work, either artists' own archives or the archives of others, including those strategies which span an artist's career.
- Performance, objects and ephemerality.
- The value of gaps, mistakes, fictions or misfires in the
re-constitutions, re-enactment or re-presentation of historical
performance.
- Curatorial issues in the exhibition of performance archives.
- Performance documentation and the problematics of canon-building.
- Performance art and performance tradition
- Performance archives and national context/identity.
- re-presentation as a method of global activism
- Performance and historiography.
- Performance re-enactment and questions of authorship, originality and
subjectivity.
- The politics, aesthetics and philosophy of repetition.
- The ethics of re-use.
- The evolution of recording and database technology, and its effect on
both the making of performance work, and the documentation, preservation
and distribution of performance.
- Performance documentation and the body.
- Performance documentation and time/duration.
Proposals should be sent to [log in to unmask] and deadlines
for proposals is 13 December. Successful applicants will be notified by 21
December. Registration for the Performing Documents conference is £80
(£120 institutionally supported rate), with an early registration fee of
£65 (£100 institutional rate). Please visit
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/performing-docs for more information about the
project.
Performing Documents is an AHRC-funded project hosted by the University of
Bristol, in partnership with University of Exeter, Arnolfini and In
Between Time.
Johanna Linsley
Research Assistant
Performing Documents
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