Performative Archives: From the Institution Effect to the Practice of Thinking. Ernst van Alphen in Conversation with Roma Sendyka  Cover Image

Performatywne archiwa: od efektu instytucji do praktyki myślenia. Z Ernstem van Alphenem rozmawia Roma Sendyka
Performative Archives: From the Institution Effect to the Practice of Thinking. Ernst van Alphen in Conversation with Roma Sendyka

Author(s): Roma Sendyka
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: interview; archive as performative; Ernst van Alphen

Summary/Abstract: Roma Sendyka's conversation with Ernst van Alphen focuses on the subject of the archive. The researcher mentions various ways of understanding this term and states that he is most interested in the ties between the archive and the work of the artist. Van Alphen sees the archive as performative, it has its own activity which cannot be fully controlled. The conversation also addresses the relationship between the archive and pictures in their broadest definition, the future of reflecting upon this medium, and possible paths of its development.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 127-128
  • Page Range: 57-61
  • Page Count: 5