Possibilities of the Performing Arts Archive

• Autor: Bifaretti, María Eugenia
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/26804
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/kaylla/article/view/26804
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Prácticas Escénicas; Archivo; Restos; Supervivencia; Imagen Anacrónica; Performing Practices; Archive; Remains; Survival; Anachronistic Image; Práticas Cênicas; Arquivo; Sobrevivência; Imagem Anacrônica

This text aims to problematize the possible ways of archiving and historicizing performing practices. For this purpose, it approaches the art works TODO, la imposibilidad de vaciar (2019) and TODO Performance (2021), directed by the performing artist Laura Valencia (La Plata, Argentina), where the collection of stage objects that the director has used and treasured during twenty-five years are activated. From a critical perspective of history (Scott, 2001) and affects (Ahmed, 2015), the artist's experience is taken as the main source and reflects on the power of art as an archive (Guasch, 2005), the idea of poetics of the rest (López, 2018), and the anachronistic images (Didi-Huberman, 2011) that are suggested on stage to consider those scenic objects as objects-remains and their uses in the works as memory exercises. Therefore, the idea of performing arts archive as repertoire of survivals is proposed in order to think what other ways of archiving enable these objects-rests and their bodily and affective dimensions, as well as the implications of addressing singular experiences for the historicization of stage events.