The Archive as a Process. How To Archive Contemporary Performing Arts And Keep Them Alive?

Focused on contemporary performing arts, we question ways in which to form the process of archiving so as to preserve the life of artistic works (performances, happenings, installations) and allow them to be seen and experienced by a broader public. What does the process of archiving brings in terms of content? How to contextualise the material? How to classify it? How to avoid the ‘character of a museum’? How to not close the work into a canon, a drawer, history?

Preparation and implementation: Lana Zdravković (Kitch & City of Women, Ljubljana)

Participants: Ana Čigon (Red Dawns, Ljubljana), Barbara Orel (AGRFT, Ljubljana), Bettina E. Knaup (re.act.feminism – a performing archive, Berlin), Ida Hiršenfelder (Modern Gallery – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana), Jelena Višnjić (BeFem, Beograd), Kristina Lelovac (Tiiiit! Inc., Skopje), Leila Šeper (Blasfem, Banja Luka), Phoebe Patey-Ferguson (Live Art Development Agency, London), Sabina Potočki (City of Women, Ljubljana), Tanja Petrović (ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana), Tihana Bertek (Vox Feminae, Zagreb), Vedrana Frašto (CURE, Sarajevo).

10.00am – 11.15am
How To Think Archive (of Contemporary Performing Arts)?
What Do We Do with Art When We Archive It?
Tanja Petrović, ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana), Barbara Orel, AGRFT (Ljubljana)
Introduced and moderated by: Lana Zdravković, Kitch & City of Women (Ljubljana)

11.30am – 1.30pm
How Do They Deal with Archiving in the Region of South-Eastern Europe?
Tihana Bertek, Vox Feminae (Zagreb), Vedrana Frašto, CURE (Sarajevo), Leila Šeper, Blasfem (Banja Luka), Kristina Lelovac, Tiiiit! Inc. (Skopje), Jelena Višnjić, BeFem (Beograd), Ana Čigon, Rdeče zore (Ljubljana)
Introduced and moderated by: Sabina Potočki, City of Women (Ljubljana)

2.30pm – 3.45pm
How to Archive and Preserve the Life of Archived Material?
Bettina Knaup, re.act.feminism – a performing archive (Berlin), Phoebe Patey-Ferguson, Live Art Development Agency (London)
Introduced and moderated by: Ida Hiršenfelder, Modern Gallery – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (Ljubljana)

In English.

Admission free.
Information: info@bunker.si, 00 386 51 269 906

In the frame of the project nEXtYU.
Production and organization: City of Women. In cooperation with Bunker.