ex Vetrerie Sciarra, Aula Seminari e Tesi
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21/02/2023, ore 15, Aula Seminari e Tesi, Via dei Volsci 122
Seminar lesson by Aldo Roma
Conducted by Stefano Locatelli
Performing arts archives are often attributed a peculiar polymorphism of identity due mainly to the multiplicity of the types of documents they preserve, as well as to the variety and diversity of the institutions and people who produced them. This way of being of the performing arts archives is currently the subject of a lively debate involving both institutions and the academic world, in the search for definitions and new working and analytical tools. The development of an archival awareness thus becomes fundamental. Not only it is useful for the practice of research – i.e., for the framing of the documents’ contexts of production, use, and preservation, and therefore for their circumstantial interpretation. Such archival awareness can also concern the contribution that research itself can provide to the planning and support of actions for the preservation and valorisation of performing arts archives.
This seminar offers an opportunity for dialogue and comparison between current experiences and research, with the aim of reflecting on and discussing possible approaches to archives and sources for the history of the performing arts in the light of the theoretical principles and methodological problems of archival science.