For this edition, Private Collection is dedicated to Foucault’s Thought. The intention is to present a set of performative proposals in its expanded values (interdisciplinary, spatial displacements, thematic displacements) able to dialogue with some central Foucault’s notions. Archive supposes the archivist, but as an “archaeologist” who does not look for general and abstract concepts but analyzes them in a game of appearance and displacement. The archive is not created by a subject of knowledge, but rather in the multiple webs between cultural, social, political, economic, subjective and historical practices. The archive also informs about this transformation, and the models that are adopted, once identified, add more meaning. Narrative and fiction intertwine because the plot is dense and resisting to the reading. At the same time as performance has asserted its radical ephemerality, the demand for documenting and archiving its practices on behalf of performance research and historiography has grown. Private Collection will question, though, the performance’s relationship with the archive. The relationship could include the role of performance in the culture of the archive and the role of the archive in conceptualizations of performance; the future of performance and the archive in the digital age; the role of the document in performance research; the practices of performers’ archives.
