Résumé :
The Circus Oz Living Archive encompasses Circus Oz’s live performances over 35 years. It provides a prototype for body-based live performance documentation and preservation for artistic and company requirements and public interest. Artists have been recording non-script-based live art as it happened for several decades; the Circus Oz Living Archive was only possible because Circus Oz had filmed its own shows over 35 years. The Living Archive contains a large number of recorded performances which, collected together, facilitate comparative analysis of different versions of an annual show as well as comparisons across decades. The author has been able to utilise extensive footage at earlier stages of the project to analyse the company’s work, drawing on cultural theory frameworks and with the knowledge that the documented performance was a reliable complete record of an annual show and was authorised by its artists.

Localisation : Bibliothèque