A performing archive. Guided Screening and Talk. Guests Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Stammer
re.act.feminism #2 is a growing, temporary and living performance archive traveling through Europe from 2011 to 2013. It presents feminist, gender-critical and queer performance art by more than 160 artists and artist collectives from the 1960 to the beginning of the 1980's, as well as contemporary positions. This mobile archive is the first of its kind to bring together such a great number and variety of performance documentation, video performances, photographs, artist interviews as well as scores and manifestos - which are mostly difficult to access and have therefore seldom been presented in the past. The scope of the archive is international including artists from more than 40 countries, mainly from Eastern and Western Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the US and Latin America. Presenting a selection of materials from the archive the team of re.act.feminism discusses the development and itinerary of the project. The talk is part of transmediale and CTM's Vorpiel.