Performance Sources lists and highlights performance artists in an archive of over 500 works. We suggest you discover the works of Éléonore Didier or around the keyword Sweat, or you can also do a search.
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Discover our artist interviews
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“You can rerun a soccer match, but you can’t rerun a performance.”
Interview with Laurent Melon
Dec 2020
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“For me, writing is improvisation. It’s the hand and the mouth that think.”
Interview with Charles Pennequin
Oct 2022
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“Rather than being shown a video of a show or a photo, I love it when the performance tells me about it. It’s all about the specter of a person’s subjectivity and interpretation.”
Interview with Cyril Leclerc
Jul 2020
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“When I take performance photos, I put all my psychic effort into the pleasure associated with the act. So the memory is very weak - I only remember the emotion.”
Interview with Bernard Bousquet
Jul 2021
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From June 2, 2023 to June 4, 2023
The 2023 edition (June 2 to 4) puts Belgium and the climate in the spotlight. Performance Sources, a database dedicated to performance archives. Presentation and meeting with : Clélia Barbut, …
From January 27, 2023 to January 29, 2023
Performances - Round table - Installation - Fol lectures - Micro radio - Photo exhibition For three days, the question of archives in performance will be eminently debated, and it is with the …
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Analyses and Critiques
This section features various types of texts that revisit one or more works, drawing on archival documents: expanded notes, theoretical or fictional essays, artists’ writings, methodological reflections, critical and literary texts. The formats are diverse, reflecting the variety of performative practices and their archives. Performance is recounted through its archives.
An open space for future reflections and other texts, this section is designed to be enriched over time.
Performance Matters, the inaugural text in this section, is an essay devoted to the dual question of the materiality of performance and its value. It draws on a series of audiovisual interviews available in the database and draws on the large corpus of works commented on by the artists themselves from their own archives. Like the enriched source editions found in certain art history databases, Performance Matters provides keys to analysing the works brought together in Performance Sources and adds to them a space for reflection.
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Mar 2021
During a workshop, participants were asked to draw up a protocol for a performance lasting around 2 hours. After arranging a hundred or so small jars on the floor, the participants chose some of them …
Oct 2015
Lying on a foam mattress in front of the entrance door, Éléonore Didier forces spectators to step over her as soon as they want to enter the room.
Oct 2015
Reaching the Dream Ball is the third edition of the Dream Ball directed by Alberto Sorbelli. This collective, participatory performance opened with a ceremonial atmosphere. Unlike previous editions, …