National Review Of Live Art, Glasgow, March 2010
Through durational performance the Trace Collective propose to review the history of the National Review of Live Art as post–historical cluster fuck.
As in their previous work at NRLA the collective proposes the creation of performance which is simultaneously archived as a live event.
For the 30th anniversary of NRLA 2010 this instantaneous documenting of live work will take the form of collating and recycling past events through existing historical documents over a two day period.
Through access to the archives of the NRLA, Trace Collective will photocopy all existing performance photo documents, catalogues, posters, flyers, and programmes of past performances and events produced by NRLA since 1979. During the live performances the artists will process NRLA documentation by continuously photocopying images of past performances on a series of photocopy machines. They will further insinuate their own physical presence into the archive by photocopying their own bodies. The photocopies will then also be shredded and processed thereby with the shredded material being placed in recycle bags for redistribution.
The public will have full access throughout to experience the ‘live’ activity and the resulting installation/evidence and residual traces.
