Acts of Transfer

Acts of Transfer

Acts of Transfer is a project that unfolds in three acts: ‘Variety Show,’ ‘Movement Arts,’ and ‘Readings + Monologues.’ Released in three stages throughout April 2018, these acts seek to form new and malleable arrangements—suggested readings—of newly digitized video from the Western Front archives. The repertoires, embodiments, expressions, explorations, and assertions of performance collected in this series are all by female-identified artists. In looking to the present in the continuum of performance that has taken place, we ask: How can we move these works through time and space? Can we enable new relationships to these practices through documentation? To what extent are the readings of these pieces conditional on their placement in the archive? And how do we, as feminists, address our role in their care?