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

许多现场艺术和表演档案已经或正在制作，因为这种当代形式变得受到国际博物馆或收藏品的重视，获得了重要的文化资本。AHRC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访问这些资源：例如，布里斯托尔最近完成的将国家现场艺术视频档案回顾数字化的项目，以及因《四十年前的今天...》而获得的奖项：1965-1979年威尔士行为艺术的早期历史定位。演出文件将研究和促进在更广泛地理解、接触和使用这些档案材料和演出档案方面取得进一步重大进展。在传统学术倾向于评价与艺术-历史叙述有关的档案，并将文件作为过去事件的文本遗迹阅读的地方，该项目将通过实践作为研究来产生对这些档案材料的调查模型。因此，该项目将通过其与当前和未来创作实践的关系，以深化学术、专业和公众对这一短暂工作的剩余部分的参与的方式，促进对现有档案收藏的了解。具体地说，该项目将探索从现场艺术和阿诺尔菲尼档案馆传授知识的潜力；它将为广泛的专业用户群体，包括学者、从业人员和策展人，制定今后使用这些材料的实用模式。它还将制定这些材料和星历的展览策略，以便几代艺术家和学者以及更广泛的公众能够理解和交流具有文化意义的、以事件为基础的艺术。历史学的实际方法将通过著名专业从业者和学术从业者-研究人员以及学术和文化产业合作伙伴之间的三个不同对话来探索。第一个工作坊将侧重于艺术家对自己的档案材料的再利用；第二个工作坊将侧重于艺术家对其他艺术家的文件的使用；第三个工作坊将以策展实践为调查模式，讨论文件和表演星历的展览。每一次调查都探索了一种与这些文件打交道的独特方法：他们为一套实验工具建模，以供未来创造性地使用和重复使用。该项目将使观众、学者和专业从业人员能够通过一系列座谈会和展览访问这些讲习班，这将使这些过程与正在进行的在线文件一起公之于众。第三期讲习班结束时，将举行为期两天的会议，同时举行展览，展示选定的成果。这将从以前的研讨会中引出并公开重要的讨论和比较思考，并增加更广泛的呼吁，要求国际学术参与该项目的问题。一本合著和编辑的书，结合DVD，将汇编关于实际调查的文件和反思，调查人员的论文和开发的会议文件。这本书由一家领先的出版商出版，将在国际上发行，涉及的各个部门。戏剧与戏剧收藏系(UOB)、埃克塞特大学戏剧系与文化产业合作伙伴Arnolfini&Inweet Time Productions(布里斯托尔)之间的合作将提供对各种学术和创意产业支持者的广泛接触和传播，以及主要的公众参与。该项目的影响将因其展览和表演成果被纳入Arnolfini方案和INBETWAGE TIME国际现场艺术节(2012年)而得到加强。本届艺术节将包括一个与背景有关的档案展示，以及更多由国家和国际艺术家委托重演的作品。

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.