Ines Schaber, Professor of Photography at the HGB Leipzig, is represented with the essay "Some Preliminary Notes on Working with Image Archives" in the new publication "Relational Acts. Performance Practices and Media of Documentation". The collection is complemented by an artistic-research contribution by Angelika Waniek titled “How Does a Body fit into a Book? From the Body of Those Present to the Body of a Book.” This piece brings together voices from artists who reflect on their own publications and explore the relationship between the performative and the recorded. The contribution also features HGB alumni, including Nora Frohmann, Clemens Fellbach, and Zora Asse.
Aesthetic, documentary and historiographical processes are intertwined increasingly in the arts. Relational Acts explores the complex relationships between performance arts, archival processes, and exhibition practices. The contributions to this interdisciplinary volume examine the relationships established via embodied forms of transmission, media-technical methods of documentation, or processes of recording, selection and presentation. The subject is the relationships between performances and appropriative repetitions, between embodied practices and technical infrastructures, between performers and documentarists, and between performance and media history.
The publication is edited by Barbara Büscher, Franz Anton Cramer and Ulrike Hanstein and is published by De Gruyter. More information & access...