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Curating live arts : critical perspectives, essays, and conversations on theory and practice
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline. Reflecting the field’s characteristic eclecticism, the writings assembled here offer practical and insightful investigations into the curation of theatre, dance, sound art, music, and other performance forms—not only in museums, but in community, site-specific, and time-based contexts, placing it at the forefront of contemporary dialogue and discourse.
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Documenting Performance
Performance in the digital age has undergone a radical shift in which a once ephemeral art form can now be relived, replayed and repeated. Until now, much scholarship has been devoted to the nature of live performance in the digital age; Documenting Performance is the first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance. Through its four-part structure, the volume introduces readers to important writings by international practitioners and scholars on:
the contemporary context for documenting performanceprocesses of documenting performancedocumenting bodies in motiondocumenting to create In each, chapters examine the ways performance is documented and the issues arising out of the process of documenting performance. While theorists have argued that performance becomes something else whenever it is documented, the writings reveal how the documents themselves cannot be regarded simply as incomplete remains from live events. The methods for preserving and managing them over time, ensuring easy access of such materials in systematic archives and collections, requires professional attention in its own right. Through the process of documenting performance, artists acquire a different perspective on their own work, audiences can recall specific images and sounds for works they have witnessed in person, and others who did not see the original work can trace the memories of particular events, or use them to gain an understanding of something that would otherwise remain unknown to them and their peers.
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Improving Archival Records and Service of Traditional Korean Performing Arts in a Semantic Web Environment
This research project aims to organize the archival information of traditional Korean performing arts in a semantic web environment. Key requirements, which the archival records manager should consider for publishing and distribution of gugak performing archival information in a semantic web environment, are presented in the perspective of linked data.This study analyzes the metadata provided by the National Gugak Center’s Gugak Archive, the search and browse menus of Gugak Archive’s website and K-PAAN, the performing arts portal site.The importance of consistency, continuity, and systematicity—crucial qualities in traditional record management practices—is undiminished in a semantic web environment. However, a semantic web environment also requires new tools such as web identifiers (URIs), data models (RDF), and link information (interlinking).The scope of this study does not include practical implementation strategies for the archival records management system and website services. The suggestions also do not discuss issues related to copyright or policy coordination between related organizations.The findings of this study can assist records managers in converting a traditional performing arts information archive into a semantic web environment-based online archival service and system. This can also be useful for collaboration with record managers who are unfamiliar with relational or triple database system.This study analyzed the metadata of the Gugak Archive and its online services to present practical requirements for managing and disseminating gugak performing arts information in a semantic web environment. In the application of the semantic web services’ principles and methods to an Gugak Archive, this study can contribute to the improvement of information organization and services in the field of Korean traditional music.
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Curating Live Arts
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon.Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline. Reflecting the field's characteristic eclecticism, the writings assembled here offer practical and insightful investigations into the curation of theatre, dance, sound art, music, and other performance forms-not only in museums, but in community, site-specific, and time-based contexts, placing it at the forefront of contemporary dialogue and discourse.
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L'apport du Fonds François Abou Salem à la connaissance des débuts de la pratique théâtrale palestinienne dans les années 1970
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Cet article propose d'étudier la période de l'émergence de l'activité théâtrale en Palestine à partir du fonds d'archives François Abou Salem car il apporte un éclairage particulier sur plusieurs processus en cours à ce moment : processus historique de l'émergence de la pratique et sa pérennisation, processus de création théâtrale et professionnalisation du mouvement.
Le fonds François Abou Salem se trouve au Théâtre National Palestinien/El-Hakawati à Jérusalem. Il a été constitué par François Gaspar, dit Abou Salem (1951-2011), homme de théâtre français établi à Jérusalem. Tout au long de sa carrière artistique, du début des années 1970 à sa mort en 2011, il a conservé ses propres archives. De la même manière que les archives du spectacle vivant, ce fonds s'est construit sur un paradoxe entre la dimension éphémère de la pratique qui s'oppose au caractère permanent et définitif de l'archive. Le fonds regroupe des matériaux de nature et de périodes différentes depuis l'émergence du mouvement théâtral palestinien, à la fondation de la première troupe de théâtre professionnelle (1977), puis à celle du premier théâtre palestinien en tant que lieu (1984), aux premières tournées à l'étranger (années 1980), et enfin à l'installation de la pratique théâtrale dans le paysage culturel, à Jérusalem et dans les Territoires palestiniens.
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Scrapbooks, snapshots and memorabilia: Hidden archives of performance Book Review
AusStage is an Australian Research Council-funded database - the digital hub of research on live performance in Australia, stimulating new approaches to collaborative research and pioneering new methods of analysis for researching live performance. Digital archives, which are expanding rapidly all over the world, have already become indispensable tools for scholars working in the areas of theatre history and performance studies. [...]questions of how researchers engage critically with the complex relationships between memory, technology and performance events are vital to the future of most humanities disciplines, but these questions are perhaps more pressing for those of us who work with 'ephemeral' art forms. Today, various digital data storage systems - from humble computer hard drives to complex online storage technologies - enable researchers to access a welter of knowledge about performance events that leave traces in the form of posters, scripts, programme notes, production stills and video recordings.
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A Decolonizing Ear
The recording of Indigenous voices is one of the most well-known methods of colonial ethnography. In A Decolonizing Ear , Olivia Landry offers a sceptical account of listening as a highly mediated and extractive act, influenced by technology and ideology. Returning to early ethnographic practices of voice recording and archiving at the turn of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the German paradigm, she reveals the entanglement of listening in the logic of Euro-American empire and the ways in which contemporary films can destabilize the history of colonial sound reproduction.
Landry provides close readings of several disparate documentary films from the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The book pays attention to technology and knowledge production to examine how these films employ recordings plucked from different colonial sound archives and disrupt their purposes. Drawing on film and documentary studies, sound studies, German studies, archival studies, postcolonial studies, and media history, A Decolonizing Ear develops a method of decolonizing listening from the insights provided by the films themselves.
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Unlocking digital archives: cross-disciplinary perspectives on AI and born-digital data
Co-authored by a Computer Scientist and a Digital Humanist, this article examines the challenges faced by cultural heritage institutions in the digital age, which have led to the closure of the vast majority of born-digital archival collections. It focuses particularly on cultural organizations such as libraries, museums and archives, used by historians, literary scholars and other Humanities scholars. Most born-digital records held by cultural organizations are inaccessible due to privacy, copyright, commercial and technical issues. Even when born-digital data are publicly available (as in the case of web archives), users often need to physically travel to repositories such as the British Library or the Bibliothèque Nationale de France to consult web pages. Provided with enough sample data from which to learn and train their models, AI, and more specifically machine learning algorithms, offer the opportunity to improve and ease the access to digital archives by learning to perform complex human tasks. These vary from providing intelligent support for searching the archives to automate tedious and time-consuming tasks. In this article, we focus on sensitivity review as a practical solution to unlock digital archives that would allow archival institutions to make non-sensitive information available. This promise to make archives more accessible does not come free of warnings for potential pitfalls and risks: inherent errors, \"black box\" approaches that make the algorithm inscrutable, and risks related to bias, fake, or partial information. Our central argument is that AI can deliver its promise to make digital archival collections more accessible, but it also creates new challenges - particularly in terms of ethics. In the conclusion, we insist on the importance of fairness, accountability and transparency in the process of making digital archives more accessible.
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The Interactive Documentary in Canada
In the 2010s Canada was a world leader in creating interactive documentaries. By the 2020s many of these celebrated i-docs were rendered inaccessible by obsolete technology. This collection examines the short-lived past and the imagined future of the i-doc and emphasizes its impact on the contemporary film and media landscape in Canada and beyond.
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