CoFestival – Umetnost SoBivanja Mednarodni festival sodobnega plesa 27. 11. – 6. 12. 2015, Ljubljana How do documents matter in theater performances? Do documents perform? How do ‘events’ become documents? What can be known about those events through documents? And what are the political implications of acts and regimes of documentation? – By taking up
CoFestival – Umetnost SoBivanja
Mednarodni festival sodobnega plesa
27. 11. – 6. 12. 2015, Ljubljana
How do documents matter in theater performances? Do documents perform? How do ‘events’ become documents? What can be known about those events through documents? And what are the political implications of acts and regimes of documentation? – By taking up these questions, this issue investigates performative practices of collecting, displaying, reconstructing, and disseminating documents in order to reconsider the relationship between performance and documents as well as to examine the role documents play in shaping artistic modes of writing history.
The contributions by scholars, artists, and curators assembled in this issue manifest that exploring documents in and through performance as well as exploring performance in and through documents is not primarily about reconnecting to and preserving a past that is irretrievably lost or displaced. Instead, they advance an epistemological understanding of the relations between performance and documents – characterised by constant translations and shifting constellations – as the basis for outlining a contemporary theatre of documents and for bringing into view the processes of historicisation within the performing arts.
Organized by: NDA Slovenia and Kino Šiška in collaboration with Maska Institute.
Language: English.
