Who or what carries, develops and transmits knowledge when it comes to performance and socially engaged art when there is no institution or archive? A website? A hard-drive? A network? A community? A body? A teacher? An artist-archivist?
Archives in Practice investigated methods for better including intersubjective and embodied knowledge inside archival practice. The research is especially devoted to socially engaged performance art. Its participatory and often delicate practice is difficult to document. The methodological approaches towards artistic and embodied strategies of documenting are based on two case studies carried out in collaboration with APL - Angewandte Performance Laboratory – a transversal platform for strengthening performative practice at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna – and Raw Matters – a Vienna based free-scene initiative for dance and performance experimentation.
