ARCHIVE/PRACTICE
International Symposium in Leipzig and Hellerau

10-13 December 2009

The Symposium ARCHIVE / PRACTICE focuses on the dialogue between archival work and artistic practice. The basic idea for this meeting of experts (archivists, artists and scholars) is to discuss some current developments, to present case studies, to reflect theoretical grounds
as well as technical, aesthetical and political aspects of the archive. The task of archiving dance and performance changes in the age of digitization and open access. Artistic strategies of reconstruction,re-enactment and (self-)archiving have an increasing influence, also in challenging the archives and their way to organize and reflect memory and history.

The Symposium is organized by the Dance Archive Leipzig in cooperation with the Institute for Theatre Studies (University of Leipzig), the LOFFT Theatre, the Festspielhaus Hellerau (Dresden) and the association of German Dance Archives (VDT / Tanzplan Deutschland).

THURSDAY, 10 DECEMBER
Welcome to the Archive!

LOFFT THEATRE

16.00–16.30 Opening / Intro

16.30–18.30 Lectures:

Beatrice von Bismarck (Leipzig): The Art of the Archival

Christel Stalpaert (Ghent): Off the Shelf and Onto the Net

Paul Clarke (Bristol): Performing the Archive

20.30 Performance: Deufert / Plischke AnArchiv #1

22.00 Talk with the artists

FRIDAY, 11 DECEMBER
Cultural Heritage

8.15 Departure by bus to Festspielhaus Hellerau

FESTSPIELHAUS HELLERAU

10.00–11.00 Guided Tour / Coffee

11.00–13.00 Panel 1:Future of the Past

Franz Anton Cramer (Berlin) / Günther Heeg (Leipzig) /

Isa Wortelkamp (Berlin) / Chair: Arnd Wesemann (Berlin)

13.00–14.00 Lunchbreak

14.00–15.45 Panel 2:Company Archives

(Merce Cunningham, Siobhan Davies, William Forsythe)

Ana Isabel Keilson (New York) / Sarah Whatley (Coventry) /

Sabine Huschka (Berlin)

15.45–16.15 Coffee

16.15–18.00 Panel 3:ReConstruction

Esther Pilkington (Aberystwyth) / Adrian Kear (Aberystwyth) /

Timmy De Laet (Antwerp)

19.00–19.45 Performance:

Fabian Barba A Mary Wigman Dance Evening

20.00–21.15 Performance:

Ivana Müller Playing Ensemble again and again

21.30 Talk with the artists and Pirkko Husemann

22.15 Return by bus to Leipzig

Parallel: LOFFT THEATRE

20.00 Performance: Deufert / Plischke AnArchiv #1

SATURDAY, 12 DECEMBER
Documentation / Digitization / Reprocessing

Tanzarchiv / DANCE ARCHIVE

9.30–10.30 Lectures:

Dries Moreels (Brussels): Multimedia & Performing Arts Archives

Wolfgang Ernst (Berlin): Archives of Motion vs. Archives in Motion

10.45–12.30 Panel 4:Digital Archives

Martin Koerber (Berlin) / Matthias Zipp (Kassel) / Thilo Wittenbecher (Berlin)

12.30–13.45 Lunchbreak

13.45–15.45 Panel 5:Dance between Screen and Stage

Andrea Bozic (Amsterdam) / Claudia Kappenberg (Brighton) /

Heide-Marie Härtel (Bremen)

15.45–16.15 Coffee

LOFFT THEATRE

17.00–18.00 Performance: Thomas Lehmen’s Schreibstück

(New Version by Britta Wirthmüller)

18.00–19.00 Talk with Thomas Lehmen and Britta Wirthmüller

20.00–21.15 Performance: LIGNADer Neue Mensch

21.30 Talk with the artists

SUNDAY, 13 DECEMBER
Living Archive, Oral History and Body Memory

Tanzarchiv / DANCE ARCHIVE

9.30–10.30 Lectures:

Heike Roms (Aberystwyth):

Eventful Evidence: Between Memory and the Archive

Myriam Van Imschoot (Brussels):

Performing and Scratching the Archive

10.45–11.30 Lecture Performance:

Jeff Friedman (New Brunswick / New Jersey):

Oral History FOR Performance, AS Performance, IN Performance

11.30–12.00 Coffee / Snack

12.00–13.30 Panel 6:Living Archives

Jeroen Peeters (Brussels) / Kerstin Evert (Hamburg) /

Laurent Chétouane (Berlin) / LIGNA(Hamburg)

13.30–14.00 Plenary Discussion / Farewell

LOFFT THEATRE

18.00–19.00 Performance: Thomas Lehmen’s Schreibstück (New Version by Britta Wirthmüller)

20.00–23.00 Two Performances: LIGNADer Neue Mensch

TICKETS FOR ALL PERFORMANCES AVAILABLE AT LOFFT AND HELLERAU.