Performance Art Festival Archives Moved to CWRU – Free Workshops Announced

Thu 9/3  6-8PM

Thu 9/10  6-8PM

Thu 9/17  6-8PM

 

Want to make art history?

A series of workshops helping artists and researchers document and preserve the creative process will be held at SPACES on three consecutive Thursdays from 6-8PM:
*  Thu 9/3
*  Thu 9/10
*  Thu 9/17

Who should attend?
*  Artists
*  Art Historians
*  Researchers
*  Archivists
*  Students interested in archiving and researching art

These workshops are FREE and open to anyone interested in personal archiving, documenting performance art, and describing & metatagging videos & photos so they can be easily found online.

Please feel free to RSVP your intention to join us by sending a note to mxh597@case.edu.

More details on the workshops can be found here.

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Cleveland Performance Art Festival

In 1987, Thomas Mulready presented a multi-media performance art piece at Baldwin Wallace University, when James Levin, who had just started Cleveland Public Theatre at W. 65th & Detroit, happened to attend. They talked backstage, and Levin convinced Mulready to start a Performance Art Festival (PAF) at CPT. Under Mulready’s direction, the Festival grew, attracted controversy, and broke away from CPT to form it’s own 501(c)3 non-profit, eventually presenting over 1000 artists from 27 countries over the next 12 years.

Because of his interest in video, Mulready arranged for all performances of the PAF to be documented with 2 camera angles, along with photos. These 2000 hours of video and 6000 photographs make up one of the largest archives of performance art in existence.

In 2015, the PAF Archives were donated to Case Western Reserve University’s Kelvin Smith Library, which is engaging in a project to digitize all the photos and video, apply metatags to make them searchable, and post the Archives online.

This series of free workshops will utilize the PAF Archives as a test bed and template for learning more about archiving art of all media and genres.

View the video overview of the Cleveland Performance Art Festival here.

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