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Mapping and Cross-mapping the Hi:story of Performance Art in Switzerland through Collective Research for Deviant Understandings.
- Source :
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Performance Research . 2022, Vol. 27 Issue 8, p89-97. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The essay examines the project 'revolving Hi:stories. Narrations of Performance Art in Switzerland', a research endeavor consisting of an exhibition and a research conference in 2022. The goal of the project is to re-write the hi:story of Performance Art in Switzerland from its beginnings until today in a collective way. A crucial strategy for this oral history based research, is the participatory mapping process, where the recordings of oral history are also indexed in diagrammatic forms. First, the project "Revolving Hi:stories" is described and contextualized in the framework of recent discourses on curatorial and activist engagement by scholars like Maura Reilly or Marina Vishmidt. In a second step, the mapping and diagrammatic activities of the project based on Lepecki's theory of choreopolitics and Elisabeth Bronfen's concept of crossmapping are thoroughly analyzed. Finally, for the first time, a description of important groups and sites for the activist performance scene in Zurich is given, based on numerous interviews and the mapping sessions in 2021 - which the authors realized together with Chris Regn, Andrea Saemann, Clemens Fellmann and Tancredi Gusman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PERFORMANCE art
*NARRATIVE art
*ORAL history
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13528165
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Performance Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171338439
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2022.2224209