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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art History and Communication\nStudies welcom
 es Philip Auslander\, Professor\, School\nof Literature\, Communication an
 d Culture\, Georgia Institute of\nTechnology\, to speak at our annual lect
 ure series (follow this\nlink for a complete list of this year's\nspeakers
 ).\nTitle: 'Reactivations: Toward a Hermeneutics of\nPerformance Documenta
 tion'\nAbstract: I seek to develop a theory of\nperformance documentation 
 focusing on the audience's\nphenomenological relationship to the performan
 ce document rather\nthan the document's ontological relationship to the or
 iginal\nperformance. No documented piece is performed solely as an end in
 \nitself: the performance is always at one level raw material for\ndocumen
 tation\, the final product through which it will be\ncirculated and with w
 hich it will inevitably become identified.\nOver time\, the documentary im
 age turns into the historical truth of\nthe original event. If performance
 s are made to be documented and\nare constituted through documentation\, a
 nd the original performance\nis not definitive but is inevitably replaced 
 by its\nrepresentations\, the spectator’s primary action with respect to\n
 performance art is not the witnessing of live events but the\nimaginative 
 reconstitution of performances from images\, whether\nheld in memory or av
 ailable through documentation. I draw on the\nhermeneutics of the German p
 hilosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer who\nargues that understanding something doe
 s not consist of revealing\nan objective truth inherent in it\, waiting to
  be discovered.\nRather\, “understanding proves to be an event” (Gadamer) 
 something\nthat emerges through dialogue\, this case the dialogue between 
 the\nperformance document and its audience. In this sense\, our\nimaginati
 ve recreation of a performance from its documentation is\nnot a process of
  retrieving information about something that took\nplace in the past but i
 s itself a performance in the present\, in\nwhich we take part.\nBiography
 : Philip Auslander's primary research\ninterest is in performance\, especi
 ally in relation to music\, media\,\nand technology. He has written on aes
 thetic and cultural\nperformances as diverse as theatre\, performance art\
 , music\,\nstand-up comedy\, robotic performance\, and courtroom procedure
 s. He\nis the author of five books and editor or co-editor of two\ncollect
 ions. His most recently published books are Performing\nGlam Rock: Gender 
 and Theatricality in Popular Music (2006)\nand the second edition of Liven
 ess: Performance in a Mediatized\nCulture (2008).\n
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LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke 
 Ouest
SUMMARY:AHCS Speaker Series: Philip Auslander 'Reactivations: Toward a Herm
 eneutics of Performance Documentation'
URL:/channels/event/ahcs-speaker-series-philip-ausland
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