Performing Documents: modelling creative and curatorial engagements with live art and performance archives

许多现场艺术和表演的档案已经或正在制作中，因为这种当代形式受到博物馆或收藏馆的重视，在国际上获得了重要的文化资本。澳大利亚人权委员会的资金已经或正在通过保护、编目和数字化加强一些关键资源，使潜在的用户群体能够使用这些资源：布里斯托最近完成的项目，以纪念现场艺术视频档案和奖项的国家审查"这是四十年前的今天.《威尔士行为艺术的早期历史定位（1965 - 1979）》执行文件将研究和促进进一步的重大进步，在理解，参与和使用这些档案材料和性能档案更广泛。传统的学术倾向于评估档案与艺术史叙事的关系，并将文件作为过去事件的文本遗迹进行阅读，本项目将通过实践研究为这种档案材料的调查提供模型。因此，该项目将通过现有档案与当前和未来创作实践的关系，加深对现有档案的理解，从而加深学术，专业和公众对这一短暂工作的参与。具体而言，该项目将探索现场艺术和Arnolfini档案馆的知识转移潜力;它将为包括学者，从业者和策展人在内的广泛专业用户社区开发未来使用这种材料的实用模型。它还将为这些材料和短暂的展览制定策略，使具有文化意义的，基于事件的艺术可以被几代艺术家和学者以及更广泛的公众理解和传播。史学的实用方法将通过著名的专业从业者和学术出版商-研究人员之间的三个不同的对话，以及学术和文化产业合作伙伴之间的探索。第一个工作坊将专注于艺术家对自己档案材料的再利用;第二个工作坊将专注于艺术家对其他艺术家文件的利用;第三个工作坊将专注于以策展实践为探究模式的文件和表演蜉蝣展览。每一次调查都探索了一种独特的方法来处理这些文件：它们为未来的创造性使用和重复使用建立了一套实验工具。该项目将使受众、学者和专业从业人员能够通过一系列专题讨论会和展示来参加这些讲习班，这些专题讨论会和展示将公开这些进程以及正在进行的在线文件。第三次研讨会以为期两天的会议结束，会议将与选定成果的展览和表演同步进行。这将引出并公开以前专题讨论会的重要讨论和比较反思，并更广泛地呼吁国际学术界参与该项目的问题。一个共同撰写和编辑的书，结合DVD，将汇编文件和实际调查的思考，从调查人员和发达国家的会议文件的论文。由一家领先的出版商出版，这将在国际上发行的各个部门参与。戏剧与戏剧收藏系（大华银行），埃克塞特大学戏剧系和文化产业合作伙伴Arnolfini和Inbetween Time Productions（布里斯托）之间的合作将提供广泛的访问和传播到各种学术和创意产业选区以及主要的公众参与。该项目的影响将通过其展览和表演成果被纳入Arnolfini计划和Inbetween Time国际现场艺术节（2012年）而得到加强。这个节日将包括一个背景化的档案展示和更多的委托重新制定的国家和国际艺术家。

Many archives of live art and performance have been or are being produced, as this contemporary form becomes valued by museums or collections internationally gaining significant cultural capital. AHRC funding has or is enhancing a number of key resources, through conservation, cataloguing and digitization, making them accessible to potential user-groups: e.g., Bristol's recently completed project to digitize the National Review of Live Art Video Archive and the award for 'It was forty years ago today...': Locating the Early History of Performance Art in Wales 1965-1979. Performing Documents will research and facilitate a further significant advance in the understanding, engagement with and use of these archival materials and performance archives more widely. Where traditional scholarship has tended to appraise archives in relation to art-historical narratives and read documents as the textual remains of past events, this project will produce models for the investigation of this archival material through practice-as-research. Thus the project will advance an understanding of existing archival holdings through their relationship to current and future creative practice, in ways that will deepen academic, professional and public engagement with what remains of this ephemeral work. Specifically, the project will explore the potential for knowledge transfer from the Live Art and Arnolfini Archives; it will develop practical models for the future use of this material for a wide range of communities of professional users, including scholars, practitioners and curators. It will also develop strategies for the exhibition of these materials and ephemera, such that culturally significant, event-based art can be understood and communicated across generations of artists and scholars, as well as to a broader public.Practical approaches to historiography will be explored through three distinct dialogues between renowned professional practitioners and scholarly practitioner-researchers, and between academic and cultural industry partners. The first workshop will focus on artists' re-use of their own archival materials; the second on artists' use of other artists' documents; the third on the exhibition of documents and performance ephemera using curatorial practice as its mode of enquiry. Each enquiry explores a distinct approach to engaging with these documents: they model a set of experimental tools for future creative use and re-use. The project will enable audiences, scholars and professional practitioners to access these workshops through a series of symposia and showings, which will make these processes public, alongside ongoing online documentation. The third workshop concludes with a two-day conference that will be synchronized with an exhibition and performance of selected outcomes. This will draw out and make public significant discussions and comparative reflections from the previous symposia and add a wider call for international academic engagement with the project's questions. A co-authored and edited book, combining DVD, will compile documentation and reflection on the practical inquiries, essays from the investigators and developed conference papers. Published by a leading publisher, this will be distributed internationally across the various sectors involved.Collaboration between the Department of Drama & Theatre Collection (UOB), the Drama Department of Exeter University & cultural-industry partners Arnolfini & Inbetween Time Productions (Bristol) will provide extensive access & dissemination to the various academic & creative-industry constituencies as well as major public engagement. The project's impact will be enhanced by its exhibition and performance outcomes being included in the Arnolfini programme and Inbetween Time international festival of live art (2012). This festival will include a contextualizing archivaldisplay and additional commissioned re-enactments by national and international artists.