Transposing the familiar poetic conundrum of how to separate the dancer from the dance: what if we choose not to separate the archive from its re-enactment? If poiesis can be seen as actions that transform and continue the world, and if numbers are constraints within which it is possible to find space and meaning, then what might happen in 24 hours of archival re-enactment? The ebb and flow of somatic states are at the heart of this research experiment, and it is a research experiment and not just a endurance performance because we propose to spend 24 hours in a studio reviewing, processing, and then re-enacting archival traces from last year’s AHA festival.

Living Archives Research Group

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