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[Adele Eisenstein]

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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@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.