documentation of live performance?
limbs, sound, sweat, eye contact, interaction and, perhaps above all:
inner motive
how do you preserve all this in film?
what's the point of "canning" a fresh show?
the aging valid reasons of "reference" and "portfolio" seem no longer enough to film performance..
i am full on different approaches to the concept. multiple takes, non-linearity, flexing of rhythm and physical gesture..
capturing performance on video not as re-enactment but as re-action to the action..
in a different form,yes, but one that just like live action, it is validated through its uniqueness..
traditional, "archiving" footage will still go on along this attempt..
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Oh yes please. This is how I should like people to video my pieces (ie, as their pieces). Kurt Kren did it very nicely for Otto Muehl and Gunter Brus. I'm sure there are a million nice ways of doing it.
ReplyDeletei think we need to talk about this more. in general i find documentation of performance (through photography and video) a frustrating distraction. Performance is about time and space and now.
ReplyDeletealthough i'm interested by the idea of using documentation to make new work i think this needs to be done in conversation with all involved.
thoughts?
yep, i want this ephemera to be more than document of what was - hmmm
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