Programme

Monday 8 June

VENUE: Árnastofnun – The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Address: Edda (name of the building) – Lecture room on the ground floor
Arngrimsgata 5 / 107 Reykjavik
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GstR5NDzECKLcFaY8

 9:00 – 9:30 WELCOME AND REGISTRATION  

• 9:30 – 9:45.   Opening speech by the hosts
• 9:45 – 10:00.    Opening speech by SIBMAS Presidents Nic Leonhardt and Alan R. Jones
• Yassaman Khajehi
  10:00 – 10:30.    Contemporary Performative Rituals, Fieldwork Experiences and Archival Challenges: A Methodological Reflection on an Ongoing Research Project

COFFEE BREAK

• Fridthjófur Thorsteinsson
  11:00-11:30.    Shifting Histories: Preservation in Motion.
• Melissa Wertheimer 
  11:30 – 12:00.    Crawl, Don’t Run: How Web Archives Support Contemporary Performing Arts Documentation and Research

LUNCH (at the participants’ expense. See end of this page* )

• Clarisse Bardiot, Doug Reside, Thomas Thorausch and Susanne Foellmer 
  13:30 – 14:30.    ROUND TABLE “Digital Futures: AI, Innovation, and the Performing Arts Collections“, moderated by Alan R. Jones
• Frederieke van Wijk
  14:30 – 15:00.    A power imbalance in the Circus Collection: the human zoo and freakshow

COFFEE BREAK + POSTER SESSION 1

• Alexandra Beraldin
  15: 45 – 16:15.   Studying the Festival d’Avignon through Digital Traces
• Morgen Stevens-Garmon
  16:15 – 16:45.    Catch the Light: the papers of Beverly Emmons at the Library of Congress (challenges inherent in documenting a field that utilizes continually evolving technology)

17:30. WELCOME COCKTAIL AT OLD THEATRE
Vonarstræti 3 / 101 Reykjavik
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/QARNTUiPBBWf1z6Z9

Tuesday 9 June

VENUE: Þjóðleikhúsið – The National Theatre of Iceland
Address: Þjóðleikhúskjallarinn – Entrance on the left side of the building
Hverfisgata 19 / 101 Reykjavik
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/2SgniSNRrnbKF1gTA

• Anna Lawaetz, Libby Smigel, Aristide M. LaVey, Dunja-Maria Münch
  9:30 – 10:30.    ROUND TABLE “The Afterlife of Performance: Working with Secondary Sources”, moderated by Nic Leonhardt

COFFEE BREAK

• Aliénor Fernandez
  11:00 – 11:30.    Martine Franck and performance photography: a seismology of the archive
• Daniela Lieb
  11:30 – 12:00.    How to incorporate water-damaged theatre collections into a literary exhibition to be mounted in a chronically understaffed institution no-one has ever heard of

POSTER SESSION 2
+ LUNCH (from 12:30, free, at the theatre canteen)

• Faiz Zahir, Staf Vos, Karin Thomson, Dita Lánska
  13:45 – 14:45.    ROUND TABLE “Crisis, Care, and Continuity in Cultural Collections”, moderated by Eva del Rey

COFFEE BREAK

• Laura Ars
  15:00 – 15:30.    Archiving as Human Work: Donors, Trust, and Care in Performing Arts Collections

POSTER SESSION 3

• Helena Hantáková, Anna Hejmova 
  16:30 – 17:00.    The Prague Quadrennial memories and future

COFFEE BREAK

• SIBMAS General Assembly
  17:30 – 18:30 (19:30 – 20:30 CET)

DINNER (optionnal)

Wednesday 10 June

• Coffee at old theatre
• Plateform event at Old Theatre
  11:00 – 12:00.

LUNCH (at the participants’ expense)

• Visit of the National Theater
  14:00 – 15:00
• End of symposium at Bio Paradís
  15:00 – ?

Posters sessions

• Miriam Althammer
  Body Maps between Absence and Presence. Transnational Gymnastics and the Afterlives of Embodied Knowledge in Modern Europe.
• André Felipe Costa
  El Concilio de Amor: Archives and Sonic Fictions of Ibero-American Queer Theatre.
• Eva del Rey
  Archiving Performing Arts Discourses.
• Nic Leonhardt ( University of Cologne, Germany)
  Out of joint ,­ out of sight: Shifting Archives of Performative Culture(s) in Pahlavi Iran
• Ana Perne 
  Digitisation, Accessibility, and Sustainability: Preserving Slovenian Theatre Audio and Audiovisual Heritage.
• Harriet Reed
  Collecting independent music venues across the UK.
• Ana Wegner, Berilo Nosella, Elizabeth Azevedo and Fabiana Fontana
  Theatre Memory and the Preservation of Technical Documentation in Southeastern Brazil.
• Katja Weingartshofer
  Costume Design at the Threshold of Digital Preservation: Methods, Challenges, and Strategies between Theatre and Archive.

* Lunch locations for June 8^th

Háma – the university canteen (two locations)
Sæmundargata 4, 102 Reykjavík 
Hagatorg 1, 107 Rekjavík 
Kaffi Ýmir (at Edda)
Joe & the juice
Birkimelur 1, 107 Reykjavík 
Björnsbakarí (bakery)
Hringbraut 35, 107 Reykjavík 
The National Museum café
Suðurgata 41, 102 Reykjavík 

Other locations (a little further away)
Melabúðin (grocery shop)
Hagamelur 39, 107 Reykjavík 
Hagavagninn (hamburger joint)
Hofsvallagata 52, 107 Reykjavík 
Brauð & co (bakery)
Hofsvallagata 52, 107 Reykjavík
Kaffihús Vesturbæjar (café/bistro)
Melhagi 20, 107 Reykjavík