Program

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Tuesday, 20 September
Fundação CULTURGEST – Pequeno Auditório

Wednesday, 21 September
Faculdade Letras da Universidade de Lisboa – Anfiteatro III

09:00Registration
09:20Opening Session Youtube
10:201 | Documenting Performance/Performing Documentation (chair: Cosimo Chiarelli) – Youtube
 Alice Maude-Roxby (Middlesex University London)
Excavating the archive: exchanges between live artists and their photographers
 Simone Dragone (Università degli Studi di Genova)
Flowers for Torgeir. Performance as a Re-mediated Photographic Archive
 > Discussion
11:20Coffee-Break 
11:402 | Handling the Archive (chair: Raquel Montez Raimundo) – Youtube
 Lisa Beißwanger (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Navigating the Politics of Display and Archival – An Institutional Perspective on Performance Photography
 Beatriz Areias (Faculdade de Belas-Artes Universidade de Lisboa)
Archiving a scene: the photographic collection of Jorge Afonso Garizo do Carmo at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
 Carolina Ventura (Teatro Experimental do Porto)
Preserving theatre – Photography as an agent of preventive conservation and documentation of Teatro Experimental do Porto legacy
 > Discussion 
13:00LUNCH
  
14:203 | Visual Choreographies (chair: Maria João Brilhante) – Youtube
 Elizabeth Welch (Providence College)
“As If His Body Remembered the Whole Dance”: Edwin Denby and Ballet Photography’s Fleshy Pleasure
 Silvia Mei (Università di Foggia)
What a photograph can do. Edwin Denby and the “luminous dance intelligence”
 > Break
 Paulo Ribeiro Baptista (Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança, Lisboa)
Actor Cardoso’s fabulous repertoire and the performance’s dimension of his photographic series
 Ana Bigotte Vieira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) / João dos Santos Martins (Artist)
Images don’t dance! For a Timeline to Be – Genealogies of Dance as an Artistic Practice in Portugal 
 > Discussion
16:20Coffee-Break 
16:404 | Beyond Performance Documentation (chair: Christopher Balme) – Youtube
 Emmanuel Cohen (Parsons Paris – The New School)
Performance through the filter. Towards a methodological approach to photographic documentation of performances on Social Media
 Gayathri A. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Performance Art and the Photo Archive in South Asia: A Critical Analysis *
 Wiebke Leister (Royal College of Art London)
Photographic manifestations of female demons from Japanese Noh theatre
 > Discussion
18:00Break (Photo session) 
18:30-20:00
(Online)
KEYNOTE: AMELIA JONES (Roski School of Art and Design – University of South California) – Youtube
Ron Athey and the Archival Body of Performance
* Online presentation

Thursday, 22 September
Faculdade Letras da Universidade de Lisboa – Anfiteatro III

Friday, 23 September
Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança – Auditório

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