1. 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)

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

3. 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);

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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.  

7. 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)?

8. 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?  

9. Thank you!