{"id":118,"date":"2018-10-31T11:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/performanceartdocumentation\/?p=118"},"modified":"2019-07-18T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T13:58:02","slug":"performance-art-and-the-1970s-documentation-ideas-and-historiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/performanceartdocumentation\/2018\/10\/31\/performance-art-and-the-1970s-documentation-ideas-and-historiography\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Constructing Performance Art: Processes and Practices of Historicisation, Documentation, and Representation (1960s-1970s)"},"content":{"rendered":"

30 November – 1 December 2018, \u00a0Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The issues of documentation and representation of past performance art have dominated the debate over this art form, both in scholarly and museum-related contexts, for several decades. In recent years, the discussion has undergone a crucial shift, in that no longer is it concerned with whether\u00a0<\/em>a performance may or may not be reproduced and documented, but how\u00a0<\/em>multiple materialisations and representations in effect re-produce an artist\u2019s work over and over again in the course of its history. The symposium Re-Constructing Performance Art<\/em><\/strong>, while upholding this new approach, offers a new and original perspective within it. In three sections\u00a0<\/strong>and one roundtable<\/strong>, international scholars will explore the practices of historicisation, documentation, exhibition, and archiving of performance art. The aim is not to evaluate specific techniques and methods for the preservation of this art form, but to examine how these practices construct its epistemic and aesthetic space. Thus, the question is not if\u00a0<\/em>or how\u00a0<\/em>performance art can be conserved but how\u00a0<\/em>different strategies of conservation and transmission shape its reception according to different agendas and strategies.<\/p>\n

The first panel<\/strong>, Defining the Boundaries<\/u><\/em>, explores modes of historicisation as enacted by artists, theorists, and scholars, both discursively and non-discursively, emphasising the deep interrelation between theorisation and artistic creation, on one hand, and their reciprocal performative power on the other. The second panel<\/strong>, Documenting or Re-Presenting?<\/u><\/em>, focusses on performance documentation, investigating its phenomenological constitution, the specificity of certain mediums of documentary transmission, as well as interrogating modes of reception of performance histories through documentation. The final panel<\/strong>, Spaces and Times of Performance Art<\/u><\/em>, examines the practices of archivation and exhibition of performance art, analysing how they take part in the processes of its re-presentation and reception. In addition, at the roundtable<\/strong>, scholars from various fields of research will discuss and compare their methodological approaches to performance-based art forms and their history.<\/p>\n

In each section, a recurrent yet shifting \u201ccentre\u201d will resurface\u2014the document<\/em>\u2014considered not as a mere medium or record of a performance, but as a juncture at which practices and strategies of historicisation, conservation, and representation are entangled. The symposium intends to contribute to the reading of this entanglement and to stimulate novel approaches to analyses of its stratification. Performance documentation thus functions not only as instrument and source for historical re-construction, but also a device for the critical scrutiny of these same practices of re-construction.<\/p>\n

The symposium is part of the research project\u00a0<\/span>Between Evidence and Representation: History of Performance Art Documentation from 1970 to 1977<\/i>. The research is conducted\u00a0by Tancredi Gusman as principal investigator at the Institute of Theatre Studies of the Freie Universit\u00e4t in Berlin, and supervised by Erika Fischer-Lichte. The project has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie grant agreement no. 747881.<\/p>\n

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Programme<\/h2>\n

Friday, 30 November 2018, L115 Seminarzentrum, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/strong><\/h3>\n

13:30 Registration and Reception<\/p>\n

14:00 Welcome\u2013 <\/em>Erika Fischer-Lichte<\/strong><\/p>\n

14:15 Tancredi Gusman\u00a0<\/strong>(Berlin)\u00a0Toulouse-Lautrec at the Beach. Documentation and its Role in Performance Art History<\/em><\/p>\n

Section 1 \u2013 Defining the Boundaries: Performance Art Ideas and Historiography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Torsten Jost<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

15:00 Heike Roms <\/strong>(Exeter)\u00a0Performance Documentation as Artistic Self-Historicis<\/em>ation in the 1960s and 1970s: Modalities of Performative Historiography<\/em><\/p>\n

15:45 Break<\/p>\n

16:15 Lorenzo Mango\u00a0<\/strong>(Napoli)\u00a0Historical Roots of \u201cPerformative Theatre\u201d: The Italian Post-Avantgarde<\/em><\/p>\n

17:00 Sylvia Sasse\u00a0<\/strong>(Z\u00fcrich)\u00a0Practical Aesthetics: Performance Art (as) Theory in Eastern Europe<\/em><\/p>\n

17:45 Break<\/p>\n

Roundtable<\/strong>\u2013Methodologies of Performance Art Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Tancredi Gusman<\/strong><\/p>\n

18:00 Doris Kolesch\u00a0<\/strong>(Berlin),\u00a0Jan Lazardzig\u00a0<\/strong>(Berlin), Michael L\u00fcthy\u00a0<\/strong>(Weimar)<\/p>\n

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Saturday, 1 December 2018, L115 Seminarzentrum, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/strong><\/h3>\n

09:30 Registration and Reception<\/p>\n

Section 2 \u2013 Documenting or Re-Presenting? Media of\u00a0<\/strong>Performance Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Andrej Mir\u010dev<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00 Philip Auslander\u00a0<\/strong>(Atlanta)\u00a0Performance Documentation and Its Discontents; or, Does It Matter Whether or Not It Really Happened?<\/em><\/p>\n

10:45 Barbara B\u00fcscher\u00a0<\/strong>(Leipzig)\u00a0Easy Access? Book as Archive of Performance Art and as Source Material of Its History<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

11:30 Break<\/p>\n

11:45 Sabine Gebhardt Fink <\/strong>(Lucerne)\u00a0Re-mediate and Remember Performance Art and Activism in Collaborative Constellations: Some Thoughts about the Methodology of Performance Chronicle Basel<\/em><\/p>\n

12:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

Section 3 \u2013 Spaces and Times of Performance Art: Exhibition and Conservation History\/ies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Tancredi Gusman<\/strong><\/p>\n

13:30 Annette Jael Lehmann\u00a0<\/strong>(Berlin)\u00a0Exhibiting Performance Art of the 1970s: Outlining Central Questions in a Case Study<\/em><\/p>\n

14:15 Barbara Clausen\u00a0<\/strong>(Montreal)\u00a0On the Interplay of the Archival and the Curatorial<\/em><\/p>\n

15:00 Gabriella Giannachi\u00a0<\/strong>(Exeter)\u00a0How a Record Becomes Art: The Role of Documentation in the Preservation, Exhibition, and Experience of Performance Art<\/em><\/p>\n

15:45 Break<\/p>\n

16:15 Adrian Heathfield<\/strong> (London)\u00a0Recurring Imponderables<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>17:00 Closing remarks and farewell<\/p>\n

The event will be held in English. Detailed information on the speakers and their presentations is available in the supplemental Book of Abstracts<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Book of Abstracts<\/a><\/p>\n

Programme<\/a><\/p>\n

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Registration<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Admission is free. Registration is preferable. Email: symposium.performance2018@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Venue<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin
\nSilberlaube (Ground Floor)
\nSeminarzentrum L115
\nOtto-von-Simson-Str. 26
\n14195 Berlin-Dahlem<\/p>\n

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Contact<\/strong><\/h3>\n

symposium.performance2018@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Organized by <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tancredi Gusman, P.I. of the research project Between Evidence and Representation: History of Performance Art Documentation from 1970 to 1977\u00a0<\/em>(Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie IF, Horizon 2020, Project ID 747881)<\/p>\n

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