Revolving Documents. Narrations of Beginnings, Recent Methods and Cross-Mappings of Performance Art

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Editorial Notes by Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Andrej Mirčev

The articles, collective contributions and interviews gathered in this edited volume are the result of the international scientific exchange conference «Revolving Documents: Narrations of the Beginnings of Performance Art.» The conference, conceived by Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Tancredi Gusman and Elisabeth Nold-Schwarz, happened as part of the exhibition project BANG BANG, curated by Andrea Saemann, Muda Mathis, Chris Regn and Lena Eriksson in collaboration with Séverine Fromaigeat at the Museum Tinguely in Basel (June 2022). Challenging dominant narratives and methodologies of how to document and write particular histories of performance art, the essays collected in the book proliferate new ways to research the archives and memory of performance and live art.
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NARRATIONS OF THE BEGINNINGS

Dror Harari
Competing Historiographies of the 1970's Israeli Action and Performance Art 23

Andrea Bátorová
Art Hisotry and Its Narratives in Former Czechoslovakia Before and After 1989 41

Andreaj Mirčev
Memory of the Star in (ex-)Yugoslav Performance Art.
Transgenerational Embodiments of the Pathos-Formula 63

Cláudia Madeira and Fernando Matos Oliveira
From (Proto)Performance to Reenactment.
Similarity and Anachronism in (Portuguese) Performance Art History 85

Andrea Saemann, Muda Mathis, Chris Regn and Margarit von Büren
interviewed by Sabine Gebhardt Fink, drawings by Lena Eriksson
Staggering Research 103

CROSS-MAPPING: FEMINIST NARRATIONS, SUBVERSIVE ACTIONS AND A PARA-ETHNOGRAPHIC REPORT

Oriana Fox
Beyond Before and After: Feminist Performance Art as Radical Self-Care 121

Séverine Fromaigeat
Making Room for Different Bodies and Subversive Actions:
Is Performance Art a Tool for Emancipation? 143

Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman and Emilie Magning
Performance Conservation: A Condition Report, or a Para-Ethnography in Three Acts 155

Dorothea Rust
Skor of:
An Improvised Criss-crossed (autobiographical) Performance as a Lecture as a Performance as a Lecture 173

RECENT RESEARCH METHODS: CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES IN PERFORMANCE STUDIES AND LIVE ART

Sabine Gebhardt Fink
The Communicative Memory as a Catergory for Research in the Field of Performance and Live Art 185

Stepen Greer
From the «Miraculous» to the Radical.
Towards a Methodology for Researching Live Art and Performance Art in Scotland 201

Sandra Sykora
«I hope I hear from you soon concerning many small details.»
Historic Contractual DoCumentation as a Source of Information in the Field of Performance Art Research 223