Performing memory

Performing Memory was a symposium held at Kunstraum Niederösterreich Vienna and an eponymous publication following the event. The subject of the symposium was the interrogation of the influence of performance documents on the interface between lived, remembered and recorded aspects of live art events. I was invited to deliver a keynote paper contextualising my collaborative research with Françoise Masson, the photographer of Gina Pane, which had been influential on the work of one of the curators of the symposium - the Austrian artist Julia Kläring. Kläring produced a radio play based on interviews with Gina Pane utilising sections of my earlier co-authored publication ‘On Record: advertising, architecture and the actions of Gina Pane.’ Extracts from Kläring’s piece appear in the publication Performing Memory. For the live event/symposium a performance by Julia Kläring focusing on the work of Gina Pane was realised., My published paper, adapted from my keynote address, forms a chapter of Performing Memory. Other speakers and writers included in the symposium and book are Christiane Krejs, Julia Kläring and Virginie Bobin (Bo-ring), Carola Dertnig, Andrea Salzmann, Barbara Matijevic, Giuseppe Chico, Bojana Cvejić. Stefanie Seibold has pinpointed my body of work as influential and references my address in an installation relating to Pane and Masson.