Reconstructing Performance Art

Tancredi Gusman is Assistant Professor in Theater and Performance Studies at the Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata. From 2017 to 2019 he led the EU Horizon 2020 project "Between Evidence and Representation: History of Performance Art Documentation from 1970 to 1977" at the Freie Universität Berlin and was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures." He is currently co-convenor of the Historiography Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR). His research investigates the politics of representation and spectatorship, and the histories of performance art, performance documentation and theater criticism.

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Introduction: On the Present of Past Performance: Investigating the Practices of Reconstructing and Representing Performance Art

Tancredi Gusman

PART I: Reframing the Past: Histories and Historiographies of Performance Art

1. Mapping the Emerging Historiographies of Performance Art in East-Central Europe

Amy Bryzgel

2. The ’68 Aesthetic and Political Radicalization in the Argentinian Avant-Garde

Ana Longoni and Mariano Mestman

3. Collective Memory and Live Art: The Methodology of Performance Chronicle Basel

Sabine Gebhardt Fink

4. The Historical Roots of "Performative Theater": The Italian Post-Avant-Garde

Lorenzo Mango

PART II: Unfolding the Action: Media and Documents of Performance Art

5. How Records and Documents Become Art: The Role of Documentation in the Preservation, Exhibition and Experience of Performance Art

Gabriella Giannachi

6. Performance Documentation: Ephemerality, Temporality, Authenticity

Philip Auslander

7. Book as Archive of Performance Art and Source Material of Its History

Barbara Büscher

8. Listening to the Histories of Performance Art

Heike Roms

PART III: Representing Performance: Information, Collection, Reactivation

9. Capturing Narrative and Data in Performance Art: The Joan Jonas Knowledge Base

Barbara Clausen, Deena Engel and Glenn Wharton

10. On the Long Road to Becoming a Matter of Course: Collecting Live Performances in Museums and Other Art Collections

Wolfgang Brückle and Rachel Mader

11. Making Movement Memorable: Tino Sehgal and Boris Charmatz at Tate Modern

Susanne Franco

12. Retrospective Remarks on Rose English, Mona Hatoum and Ana Mendieta: Where Is Performance?

Georgina Guy and Johanna Linsley

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