Performance Sources lists and highlights performance artists in an archive of over 500 works. We suggest you discover the works of Sophia El Mokhtar or around the keyword Car, or you can also do a search.
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“For me, a performance is the construction of an astronomical telescope, or a microscope. Reality proves nothing, but it’s the way we look at reality that shows things.”
Interview with David Noir
Apr 2020
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“You don’t arrive on stage with your feathers. You put your feathers in front of people. Changing one’s appearance and becoming someone else is an important bridge in performance work”
Interview with SKALL
Apr 2020
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“The best moments are when you’re in a state of emptiness. You’re not trying to find a narrative logic, you don’t know where you’re going.”
Interview with Anne Dreyfus
Jul 2021
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“Rather than being shown a video of a show or a photo, I love it when the performance tells me about it. It’s all about the specter of a person’s subjectivity and interpretation.”
Interview with Cyril Leclerc
Jul 2020
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From June 2, 2023 to June 4, 2023
The 2023 edition (June 2 to 4) puts Belgium and the climate in the spotlight. Performance Sources, a database dedicated to performance archives. Presentation and meeting with : Clélia Barbut, …
From January 27, 2023 to January 29, 2023
Performances - Round table - Installation - Fol lectures - Micro radio - Photo exhibition For three days, the question of archives in performance will be eminently debated, and it is with the …
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Analyses and Critiques
This section features various types of texts that revisit one or more works, drawing on archival documents: expanded notes, theoretical or fictional essays, artists’ writings, methodological reflections, critical and literary texts. The formats are diverse, reflecting the variety of performative practices and their archives. Performance is recounted through its archives.
An open space for future reflections and other texts, this section is designed to be enriched over time.
Performance Matters, the inaugural text in this section, is an essay devoted to the dual question of the materiality of performance and its value. It draws on a series of audiovisual interviews available in the database and draws on the large corpus of works commented on by the artists themselves from their own archives. Like the enriched source editions found in certain art history databases, Performance Matters provides keys to analysing the works brought together in Performance Sources and adds to them a space for reflection.
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Oct 2021
All evening long, attracted by the music on the media library’s forecourt, passers-by witness dance improvisation sequences. The music sets the tone, creating the atmospheres that the bodies …
Anne Dreyfus
Silvia Lenzi
Feb 2010
The duo - Silvia Lenzi on cello and Anne Dreyfus dancing - begins with an improvisation by the cellist. Anne Dreyfus circulates around her. The floor is strewn with papier-mâché animal figures. A …
Oct 2015
Biño Sauitzvy with students from the University of Paris 8 and six students from the Académie Fratellini: The students compose living sculptures in duet or group mode. Often precariously balanced, …
Sep 2018
This choreographic ritual by Corps collectif is the second in a series dedicated to the cycle of the seasons. The Générateur room is bathed in orange light and the floor is covered with a carpet of …
