Call for Contributions for Performance Research, "On Archives and Archiving"

[anna balint]

Call for contributions for Performance Research, "On Archives and  Archiving"
Performance Research
Vol.7 No.4 (Winter 2002)
'On Archives and Archiving'
Call for Contributions

'On Archives and Archiving' will be Volume 7, Issue 4 of 'Performance
Research' and will be jointly edited by Richard Gough with guest editor
Heike Roms.
Deadlines are as follows:
Proposals: February 28th 2002
Finalised Copy:  May 15th 2002
Publication Date: December 2002

'On Archives and Archiving' will be the fourth issue of a volume on
'Textualities: scores, documents and archives' (PR, Vol.7, Nos 1-4, 2002)
which considers the changing nature of performance texts and relations
between writing, textuality and performance in four related issues: On
Editing, Translations, On Fluxus and On Archives.
Performance is widely regarded as that which cannot be archived  its
presentness at odds with the archive's quest for permanence, its
disappearing acts resisting the desire to label, stack and store. Yet at
the same time as performance has asserted its radical ephemerality the
demand for documenting and archiving its practices on behalf of performance
research and historiography has grown. What then is performance's
relationship with the archive?
The editors invite contributions that explore this relationship in all its
facets, including the role of performance in the culture of the archive and
the role of the archive in conceptualisations of performance; the cultural
histories and ideologies of archival practices; the future of performance
and the archive in the digital age; performance as an archive of its own
history; performative interventions into archival culture; the role of
forgeries, rumours and lies in the development of performance history; the
role of the document in performance research; the practices of performance
archives; and performers' archives.
Possible topics (in alphabetical order):
access  accumulation  arrangement  assemblage  association  authenticity
autobiography  body  book  bone  box  capacity  catalogue  category
classification  collage  collection  conservation  copy  counterfeit
cyberspace  data  decay  depository  destruction  diary  digital
disappearance  document  drawer  dust  ephemerality  error  eternity
evidence  facsimile  fake  file  flesh  forgetting  fragment  future
goneness  hide  history  image  information  installation  internet
inventory  journal  knowledge  label  letter  library  lies  list  loss
memory  name  network  omission  orality  order  original  palimpsest
paradox  past  preservation  private  public  quotation  recycling
reconstruction  remains  restoration  rubbish  ruin  rumour  safety  saving
  searching  secret  storage  sound  system  time  trace  uncover  virtual
witness  wunderkammer  xyz
'On Archive and Archiving' will continue the discussion on archiving and
performance begun in earlier issues of Performance Research ('On Memory'
and 'On Maps and Mapping'). Responses to previous contributions on the
theme are especially welcome.
Performance Research is interested in proposals for visual and textual work
that makes use of the resources of the page, and in work that may use
several versions of a text. We are interested in scores and other
performance documents, interviews, discussions, proposals for review essays
of performance, digital, time-based work and books, and in collaborations
between artists and critics.
This issue will be edited by Richard Gough, General Editor of Performance
Research, and Heike Roms, Consultant Editor of Performance Research.
We actively welcome submissions on any area of performance research,
practice and scholarship. Proposals and articles will be accepted on hard
copy, disk or by e-mail attachment (MS Word). Please DO NOT send images by
email attachment without prior agreement.
Proposals, submissions and enquiries should be sent direct to:
Linden Elmhirst - Administrative Assistant
Performance Research
Dartington College of Arts
Totnes
Devon TQ9 7RD UK
tel. 0044 1803 862095
fax. 0044 1803 866053
email: <performance-research at dartington.ac.uk

Submission of an article to the journal will be taken to imply that it
presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication
elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the exclusive
rights to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to the
publishers.