The Future of Documents Project: documenting performance
Monday 31st October 2016
Northampton Suite, at City, University of London
This one day interdisciplinary symposium aims to bring together scholars, researchers, artists and practitioners from the disciplines of library & information science and theatre & performance, to share and consider respective conceptual views of documents, and the processes and procedures associated with documentation. The day will focus on the description, recording, archiving and preservation of performance, including: dance, music, theatre, performance and performance art.
The aim is to provide a forum for initiating a conversation to raise awareness of how the question of what is a document, and the theory and practice of collecting, indexing, preserving and accessing the records of performance, are understood, explored and developed by different, previously unconnected, disciplines.
Organisers: Lyn Robinson & Joseph Dunne
Programme
Please note, speakers and timings may be subject to change.
| 10.30 | Coffee and registration |
| 11.00 | Welcome and Introduction |
| Session 1 | Documents & Documentation |
| 11.15 | The Future of Documenting Performance: Plenty of Performance Documents but Not Enough Performance Documentation |
| 11.35 | AusStage: Australia’s National Database of Live Performance Goes Global |
| 11.55 | The Audio-visual Collection of Performance Documentation at the British Library |
| 12.15 | From the Beatles to Einstein: Documenting Performance at the Royal Albert Hall |
| 12.35 | Rambert: The Performing Archive |
| 12.55 | Performance at Tate: Documentation and Documents in Research |
| 13.15 | Lunch |
| Session 2 | Exploring Performance as a Document |
| 14.00 | Framing, Reframing and the Attribution of Value |
| 14.20 | Documenting Dance and Physical Actor Training for the Web |
| 14.40 | The Library of Light
Hansjörg Schmidt & Jo Joelson |
| 15.00 | Discussion
Moderated by Lyn Robinson & Joseph Dunne |
| 15.15 | Break |
| Session 3 | Beyond the Boundaries |
| 15.30 | Network Technologies: potentialities in performance documentation |
| 15.50 | Beyond a Black Square: documenting darkness |
| 16.10 | Documenting Tradition: towards an interdependent dialogue between performance documents |
| 16.30 | SIGHT (UN)SPECIFIC. An analysis of the event “You don’t need eyes to see, you need vision” in relation to performance, documentation, memory and sight |
| 16.50 | Summary and Close |
| 17.00 | Drinks Reception Sponsored by CityLIS and Midsea Books |
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