[Fall 2010]
documents [de] PERFORMANCE
Historic performances are currently being updated in different forms: exhibitions, appropriations, remediations, and re-enactments. These practices raise a number of questions about the status of performance documentation (photos, videos, and films in particular) and how it is interpreted, adressed here through multiple recent examples.
DAVID TOMAS
Tim Clark. Reading the Limits.
An essay in exhibition strategies for the Tim Clark restrospective : the curator’s viewpoint.
BARBARA CLAUSEN
Archives of Inspiration
An essay on performance re-enactments by Luis Felipe Ortega and Daniel Guzman, Seth Price, and Kelley Walker.
CYRIL THOMAS
Rearticulating Performance on SecondLife
An essay on re-mediatization of performances in SecondLIfe by Eva and Franco Mattes, Joseph DeLappe, and Lynn Hershman Leeson.
MARIO CÔTÉ
Re-creationg Danse dans la neige
A presentation on the re-creation of Danse dans la neige: the viewpoint of the director of Saisons Sullivan.
ANNE BÉNICHOU
Performing Images, Image Performances
An essay on the main debates about performance documentation, its status, and its uses