CIDOC2016 Exhibition and Performance Documentation Working Group   CIDOC2016 Milan, Italy July 3-9 Gabriel Moore Forell Bevilacqua, Chair Departamento de Ciência da Informação Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Exhibition and Performance Documentation Working Group   Our proposed agenda 1. Brief activity report 2. Study cases presentation 3. Open discussion  

Exhibition and Performance Documentation Working Group   Current activities 1. Benchmark and networking: identifying related existing initiatives, establishing partnerships and collaboration for information exchange; 2. Bringing partners to the initiative (professionals and institutions);  

Exhibition and Performance Documentation Working Group   Current activities 3. Start the institutional survey: Exhibition documentation Performance art documentation Brazil: - Instituto Moreita Salles (Rio de Janeiro) Instituto de Arte Contemporânea (São Paulo) Fundação Bienal de São Paulo (São Paulo)  

Exhibition and Performance Documentation Working Group   Current activities 3. Start the institutional survey: USA: - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston) Whitney Museum (New York) MoMA (New York) Belgium: Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp) United Kingdon: - Royal College of Art  

Exhibition and Performance Documentation Working Group   Current challenges Attract museum professionals and institutions; Implement a dynamic and functional communication strategy and tool; Organize meetings: São Paulo, Brazil (November, 2016) Rio de Janeiro (March, 2017) New York or London (2017) Georgia CIDOC Conference (2017) Start the field research.  

Exhibition and Performance Documentation Working Group   Field research: institutional practices mapping 1) How museums document exhibitions and performances? (documentation processes/registration strategies) 2) What documents do they current have and how they manage/keep it? (documentation product/record and archives) 3) Who is responsible for exhibition/performance documentation in the museum (professional, area, department etc.)? 4) What kind of research demands the museum have for exhibition/performance records/information (internal/external)?  

Exhibition and Performance Documentation Working Group   Field research: institutional practices mapping 5) How the museum catalog and provide access to exhibition/performance information? What kind of tools and strategies are used? 6) What kind of exhibition/performance history research initiatives/projects the museum have or took part in recent years? 7) How exhibition/performance records/information interact or are used by collection management systems and collection cataloguing and documentation processes?  

Thank you! gabrielmoore@gmail.com