Performing Arts in Transition

Susanne Foellmer is Reader in Dance at Coventry University, Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), UK. Maria Katharina Schmidt, independent researcher, has been a research fellow in the project On Remnants and Vestiges: Strategies of Remaining in the Performing Arts at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Cornelia Schmitz, independent researcher, has been a research fellow in the project On Remnants and Vestiges: Strategies of Remaining in the Performing Arts at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Susanne Foellmer, Maria Katharina Schmidt, and Cornelia Schmitz Introduction

1 Susanne Foellmer Dance, Performance, Media, Transfer: Sketching Notions and Problems in the Field

Part I: Material Temporalities

2 André Lepecki Non-time of lived experience: colour, action, and dance in Hélio Oiticica’s early works

3 Joy Kristin Kalu Embodying, Repeating, and Working-Through: The Artistic Practice of Rebecca Davis and Abigail Levine in the Context of their Re-enactments of Marina Abramović’s Performances

4 Wolfgang Ernst Micro-dramaturgical Temporalities of Media Theatre: On the Difference between Performative and Operative Re-enactment

Part II: Displacing the Exhibition: Between Display and Performance

5 Beatrice von Bismarck Trans(pos)ition: In the language of the curatorial

6 Nicole Haitzinger Performative Contours

7 Wolf-Dieter Ernst Thumb and Index Mode. Performance, Digital Art, and the ORLAN Network

Part III: Processes of Genre Transfer

8 Ulrike Hanstein Videoed Memories and Movements, Rediscovered and Regained: It’s Aching Like Birds (2001)

9 Christopher Morris The Deadness of Live Opera

10 Sandra Umathum The equally-valid image. Considerations on Ragnar Kjartansson’s art of challenging the hierarchy between attending a performance and relying on its photographic remains

11 Susan Rosenberg Dance and Building in Dialogue: Five Propositions on the Relationship between Trisha Brown’s Choreography and Diller + Scofidio’s Architecture

Part IV: Moving HiStories

12 Gabriele Brandstetter On the Margins of HiStories. Trans-fusions Between Document and Performance

13 Daniela Hahn "Our method is transmission": The Body as Document in Christina Ciupke’s and Anna Till’s performance undo, redo and repeat (2014)

14 Kirsten Maar and Peter Pleyer Visible Undercurrent – New York Berlin 1980/90-2014: Reconsidering Histori/es – Negotiating the Now

Part V: Blurring the Document

15 Renate Wöhrer Pictures, Texts, Sounds, Zoo Animals…: On the Materiality of Documents

16 Franz Anton Cramer, Sigrid Gareis, and Alexandra Hennig Capturing Dance: A Report on a Project in Artistic Research

17 Isa Wortelkamp Unseen: Photography as a Document of Dance History Writing