Kunstraum Niederösterreich

When regarding performance and its relation to documents, we notice a broad range of approaches by artists and researchers: reconsideration and reactivation of performance history, transfer of live events into other media, accessibility of a space- and time-related practice, questions of authorship and spectator, but also transmission of recent history and knowledge through performative practices, and a need to constantly re-discuss the possibilities of performative practices.

Performing Memory focuses on performance as a mediation tool, for history, for knowledge, and the use of documents within performances as an activation of critical and political qualities. The document, considered rather as an active production with a specific intention than as an object, is central to this proposal. The document, may it derive from historical performances, from present discussions, or future possibilities, is anchored on the now. In a non-linear comprehension of history, it is an appropriation of memory, a transfer to the present and a reference to the future. Within this conception of history the document cannot be a proof for anything that had happened like that, but a tool to be interpreted in a responsible way towards the previous context and performers.

TIMETABLE

Introduction:
 Virginie BOBIN / Julia KLÄRING:
Performing Memory - Mediating Knowledge ?
3.00pm - 3.40pm

Performance: Carola DERTNIG: Dancereport, Accumulation and other Things..
3.50pm - 4.05 Uhr

Lecture: Alice MAUDE-ROXBY: Being Present: Intersections of Production, Record and Memory
4.20pm - 5.05pm



Performance: Andrea SALZMANN / Julia KLÄRING:
37 years too late - The Speech
17.15 bis 17.30 Uhr

30 min break

Performance: Barbara MATIJEVIĆ / Giuseppe CHICO:
I am 1984
6.00pm - 7.00pm

Talk: Virginie BOBIN / Bojana CVEJIĆ:
Performativity in the making (of and on performance)
7.10pm - 7.50pm

8.00pm
DISCUSSION


TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS

Introduction and moderation: bo-ring (Virginie Bobin, Julia Kläring): Performing Memory – Mediating Knowledge ?
Die KuratorInnen stellen ihre Recherche vor, in der sie Performance als Medium zur Auseinandersetzung
The presentation of the curators’ research questions performance as a mediation tool, for history, for knowledge, and the use of documents within performances as an activation of critical and political qualities.


Performance: Carola Dertnig: Dancereport, Accumulation and other Things..
„I think creating a discussion is more important than creating a sensational event.“ (from an interview with bo-ring)

Lecture: Alice Maude-Roxby 
: Being Present: Intersections of Production, Record and Memory
Alice Maude-Roxby has recently carried out an extensive investigation of performance photography. She published interviews with photographers such as Françoise Masson, Lisa Kahane and Babette Mangolte (amongst others), and curated Live Art on Camera (John Hansard Gallery Southampton, 2007)
 


Performance: Julia Kläring/Andrea Salzmann: 37 years too late - The Speech
with Birgit Michlmayr and Stefan Geissler
We are too late, we missed the performance.
37 years after the first showing of "Selfportrait(s)" by Gina Pane we have now the challenge to see the exeptional speech of the three parts "The Conditioning", "The Contraction", "The Rejection".  They are undoubtfully dubious figures, who disagree, but at the same time they enjoy to remember the common evening in Paris.

Performance: Barbara Matijević/Giuseppe Chico: I am 1984

A pseudo-scientific journey through the year of 1984 – from the perspective of various realities, or rather various levels of fiction – events from national and world history, but also science fiction, films, and 3D animation, as well as the virtual worlds of internet and video games.
 


Talk: Virginie Bobin/Bojana Cvejić: Performativity in the making (of and on performance)
Reacting on the previously presented performances, BC and VB will question the empowering quality of performance and its political impact as a tool for mediating history into the present. Reflecting on the effect of the visibility or non-visibility of documents to produce research-based alternative narratives through performativity, they will also consider the issue of producing a discourse on performance in its own space and time. 

Live transcription: an experiment by Katka Csanyiova, Lisbeth Kovacic, Veronika Merklein, Paula Pfoser (students of the Performance class at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna).


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