Activity: Talk or presentation for an academic audience › Invited 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.