Week 1. Introduction

• Introduction to the program and course overview.

This is a one-hour-only welcome session. The lecturer will introduce the program and participants will introduce themselves. No prior preparation is necessary.

Week 2. Introduction to the field

• Why document, preserve and archive art?
  
• A historical overview and distinction of the disciplines
  
• From object to dynamic processes
  
• The challenge of ephemerality
  
• The performative
  
• What to use archives and collections for as cultural producers and artists?
  

Week 3. The archive

• The archive in a historical perspective
  
• Archival theory
  
• Institutional approaches to archiving
  
• The move away from chronology
  
• Artistic approaches and use of archives as material and theme
  

Week 4. Documentation

• Methods to use for documentation
  
• Performance art: capturing the moment
  
• Re-creation and re-enactment as artistic genres
  
• Digital art: software as performance instruction
  
• Sound and time-based art capturing
  
• Documenting the exchange between work and audience
  

Week 5. Preservation

• Preservation methods used in institutions today
  
• Variable media initiatives
  
• The performance document and remains as artworks
  
• Digital art and Internet art preservation
  
• Notation and score-based works / conceptual art
  
• Reconstruction of artworks
  
• Documentation instead of preservation – when other strategies fail
  
• A dynamic approach to preservation
  
• Experimental strategies – challenging the formats
  

We will use Zoom for the live video conferences, please check Zoom's technical requirements here.

Closed captioning will be available during the video conference.