CIRCUMSTANCES 50°59'20.5"N 3°31'37.4"E. Coproductie Platvvorm / croxhapox 2018.
Location: Neerleie, Deinze.
Jorn Schafaff : Access Denied. A lecture on October 20th in Kunsthal, Gent. Followed through Skype in Neerleie, Deinze.
from the lecture [ ]1
. for an artist, documentation is to be recognised in the discourse
. the documentation, the object, can be seen in two ways; the exhibit and the source of information
. the case of theater ... its temporality
. four points
1 (noise on the connection)
2 To have control over the information
3 To install an opposition, to finish a performance, to end a process
4 (noise on the connection)
. no opacity
. 'description destroys the artistic effect"
. "the art of documentating as a performance constitutes it as such"
preferably with the camera
. one of the quotes is by Rosenbach
My Question: Within Circumstances, we are reasearching on the relationship between creation and presentation. In these days, a lot of artistic practices seem to mingle these two. There is a fluidity between the two actions. Or a merging into one. Or it is a one.
How can a residency programme focus on the two, and find new ways of presenting, exhibiting while showing the creation, and vice versa. Within our research-like questions, we wonder what documentation and archivation mean within our attempt. As for now, we see documenting and archiving more as an ending. An act of grasping things when a something is finished.
His Answer: (noise)
... documentation makes an action a tradition ... something that has been done before ... documentation makes it that is is not circular ... or ... rather a temporal process ... frozen for a while a series of constant progression and
1. As captured by Ann De Keersmaecker and Maarten Van Luchene.