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AG ARCHIV (WORKING GROUP ARCHIVE)

The working group ARCHIVE was founded by Franziska Voss and Prof. Dr. Patrick Primavesi at the 13th congress of the society for theatre studies in Frankfurt am Main and Gießen in 2016. The objective was to strengthen the connections of the archives with research and academic teaching.

Archives of theatre, dance and performance are locations where artistic practice can be historically evaluated and researched in a source-critical way, but they are also influenced by the impulses of the artists themselves regarding forms of presentation, usage and accessibility. That is especially important for strategies of artistic research, reconstruction, re-enactments etc.

These developments already played a role in a few research projects in the realms of theatre and dance science that don’t just work with the archives, but also contribute to their redesign and preservation. But the structural problems existing archives are facing are affecting the entire protection of specific knowledge resources – especially those collections specialized on the performing arts with multiple different types of media.

The working group ARCHIVE is a place for exchange and the collective development of research strategies. Furthermore it offers support for junior researchers and can be used as a joint body of advocacy for research and memory institutions of the performing arts.

The working group is always open for new members. Because our main objective is the dialogue with staff of memory institutions we welcome you to join and work together. We are meeting at the congresses of the gtw and are hosting workshops at alternating locations. You are very welcome to contact us and become a member through the contact details below.

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contact details: Website

Prof. Dr. Patrick Primavesi, Institute of theatre studies, university of Leipzig (primavesi@uni-leipzig.de)
Franziska Voß, specialist information service (FID) performing arts, university library Frankfurt am Main (fvoss@ub.uni-frankfurt.de)

EVENTS:

Event data?! Kick-off event of the Performing Arts Forum in theGemeinsame Normdatei (GND).
28.01.2022: 10:00 – 16:00, digital

For the creation, management, indexing, and visualization of knowledge assets in digital environments, standards are helpful that simultaneously ensure discoverability and networking. For example, standards data for people or places enable them to be named unambiguously for very different areas of knowledge. But to what extent do such standards also promote research into the performing arts? What are the special requirements and potentials in this area? How can the development of digital knowledge networks and the use of standards be improved here? These questions will be addressed at the opening event of the Performing Arts Forum in the GND.

Further information and registration

Digital Working Meeting: “Untold Stories – New Perspectives for Performing Arts Collection and Research” from 29.09.-01.10.2021

To the program overview

Universities, museums, archives and collections are mediating institutions of cultural memory and play an important role in identity formation processes. At the same time, cultural identity has become a term of struggle and questioning foci, structures, archive and knowledge organization is becoming an important aspect of work in and with collections in the wake of efforts to de-hierarchize, decolonize and diversify. But what does this mean concretely for collecting institutions and for those researching with the collections? How can other perspectives be adopted, how do they become discoverable in the existing or find their way into collection holdings and research projects?

As an offer for dialogue between collections and research on the performing arts, the working meeting will focus in two workshops on the stories that still need to be told, on the potential created by digital infrastructures of collection and research, and on international perspectives of networking, exchange, and cooperation.

For more information and registration

“Collection Meets Research” is a cooperation between the Bundesverband Theatersammlungen im deutschsprachigen Raum (TheSiD) e.V. together with the Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung (TWS) of the University of Cologne in cooperation with the Archive of Performing Arts of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Deutsches Theatermuseum München, the Fachinformationsdienst Darstellende Kunst (FID DK), the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft of the University of Leipzig, the International Theaterinstitut Deutschland/ Mediathek für Tanz und Theater (MTT) and the AG Archiv of the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft, funded by NFDI4C (DFG project number 441958017) and the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft (gtw).
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