Paul Clarke
Archival Events & Eventful Archives
Paul Clarke is Associate Professor in Performance and Creative Technology at the University of Bristol, UK. A practitioner-researcher, he is one of the artistic directors of Bristol-based theatre company Uninvited Guests. His research explores digital technologies in participatory and place-based performance practice, along with creative responses to archives.
How do documents perform and how are the archives that hold them performative? Can the production, circulation and reception of performance documents be included within the time frame of the works themselves? How do performances remain and produce residues that can be retained? Where are these traces placed for posterity? What is the position of ephemeral remains, held in individual or collective memory, distributed word-of-mouth as rumours, hearsay and oral accounts? Can performance document or archive itself? This lecture draws on the Great Western Research project Performing the Archive: the Future of the Past, which is based in the University of Bristol Theatre Collection's Live Art Archives and Arnolfini Live's Archives.
Format
Audio Document
Document media
Lecture
Issue date
2009
To be seen in
re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 25.1.2009 / 12 noon