Live Art and the Archive: Feminist Reconfigurations, 'Symposium Archive des Ephemeren', Performance Art Network Switzerland (PANCH), Kunstmuseum Bern

  • Eleanor Roberts (Invited speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentation for an academic audienceInvited talk for an academic audience

Description

Performance and live art practices have held uneasy relationships to traditional modes of archiving due to many factors – including, in many cases, active resistance to documentation and institutionalisation. The dematerialisation of the art object that unfolded in the 1960s and 1970s has frequently been twinned with political critiques of the archive as representative of institutions which calcify existing patterns of privilege, commodification, and marginalisation that artists working in performance were actively resisting. My contribution to this discussion is to explore some of the strategies to engage and transform archival representation in feminist performance, between the proliferation of such art forms in the 1960s and 1970s, and contemporary queer and feminist live art today.

Estimated audience numbers (if applicable)

100
Period1 Nov 20183 Nov 2018
Held atPerformance Art Network Switzerland, Switzerland
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • performance art
  • archives
  • museum studies