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abstract:

documentary in performance art

performance art, as in theater, public interventions, musical performances, etc., lives in the moment of its happening. an essential part is determined by the performers and the audience (and its response). each performance takes on a different character as the parameters change.

the documentation of such an ephemeral art form is a challenge: reproduce the event on film. create a new, transposed, art work that uses the source material of the performance event. reassemble different pieces into a completely new context. work outside of linear film-editing by using interactive, viewer determined forms of non-linear story-telling (as for ex. in korsakow, mongrel or the like)..

a similar problem arises with the real-time streaming of performance events. while many are mere broadcasting; are there forms of streaming that are tailored to the viewer at the other side of the monitor.. the non-edited form of streaming advances the idea of being part of a performance. but is that so? are there degrees of intervention, or is it still a passive (tv) experience. how do streaming events tailored for the internet, specially international collaborations, distinguish themselves in the viewers perspective..

this proposal would like to look at different attempts in documenting and streaming performance art event (film sequences - linear and layered, websites, interactive projects, streams). the question to discuss is which form should the documentation of an event take to keep within its inherent ephemeral character. part of the discussion should show different forms of documentation, alongside interviews by theater and performance art directors, as well as musicians and visual artists, and programmers of interactive softwares. with this in mind, can there a form of documentation, or is this an event based decision; does it depend on the documentarist or the artistic director to choose the most appropriate form..

recently, an ongoing debate about documentation and its validity, as well as on streaming and its next steps, has occurred on different fronts and in different ways. within this context different models are looked at and discussed.

screening material by author:
this is just to do, o.r.t., new york, 2001
polimysl | trstenice, czech republic, 2002
mitte-mai-fest, taste 02, vienna, 2003
sensory compression, pq, prague, 2003
dancing villages, vienna, 2004
e|ement.a|, 2004

other materials:
korsakow samples
mute me streams
anyware, share, kitchen

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