Project Details
Projekt
Media and constitutive systems: Archiving performance-based art
Subject Area
Theatre and Media Studies
Term
from 2012 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 218477758
This research project focuses on cultural performance practices and their historiography. In recent years, there has been growing interest in questions of how transitory and site-specific art forms react to archiving and how to overcome the conflict between the unique moment of performance and remembering or immortalizing it. A range of formats, from exhibitions, re-enactments and retrospectives to historically informed artistic projects, use many different strategies to translate the content of past performance into contemporary contexts and renderings.The objective of the project is to analyse these undertakings and examine their effectiveness as well as their individual conceptions and methods. These can be based on the status of archival objects, claims to documentary completeness, faithfulness to the original or curatorial re-interpretations of historical positions. Current projects both in exhibition and archiving are analysed in a number of case studies. In addition, the project devises a systematic stock taking of developments of the issue, both artistic and academic since c. 1990. The results will be published and presented for discussion in workshops, internet publications and a database.
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