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Historiography and theory of documentation and conservation of media art


February 4, 2008

Sylvie Lacerte, Coordinator of the DOCAM Research
Sylvie Lacerte © DOCAM 2008

1) Introduction; 9 Evenings and Experiments in Art and Technology; Alfons Schiling’s footage of the 9 Evenings Event; Pamela Lee’s concept of Chronophobia; « Abridgement of fact is abridgement of history ».

2) « A documentary or an archival fonds does not necessarily allow for a narrative, but are traces of this narrative. Nevertheless, these traces are of utmost importance to start filling the blanks of a narrative that would have been constituted entirely on second hand testimonies or documents »; The preservation of the E.A.T.’s archive; Pamela Lee’s essay Chronophobia; the « aura » of the artwork; the authorship; the curator’s role in contemporary art.

3) 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering and E.A.T.; the failure as a part of the process.

 

Links:


Sur le site Web de la fondation Daniel Langlois

• Sylvie Lacerte: 9 Evenings and Experiments in Art and Technology - A gap to fill in art history's recent chronicles

• Clarisse Bardiot, 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering

• 9 Evenings fonds: Factual footage and sound recordings of the performances
• 9 Evenings fonds: Tennis racquets created for Robert Rauschenberg's Open Score


"9 Evenings Reconsidered" Travelling Exhibition

http://ellengallery.concordia.ca/piste-de-reflexion/9-evenings-reconsidered-art-theatre-and-engineering-1966/

https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/9-evenings-reconsidered-art-theatre-and-engineering-1966


9 Evenings: A DVD film series

https://www.artpix.org/00Rauschenberg.htm

https://www.artpix.org/11Cage.htm

https://www.artpix.org/13Tudor.htm