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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Cardiff Metropolitan University (joint submission with University of South Wales and University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
Trace Displaced
This was a series of interconnected performance/installations produced in 2008-09 with the intention of documenting them collectively in a single book, where the documentation process was to be integral to the performance/installations. The project was a development of 2000-08 research at Stitt’s Cardiff-based Trace Installaction Artspace. Trace came into being to explore the relation between performance art, installation and archiving, and formed the greater part of Stitt’s RAE 2008 submission. This 2008-09 project involved a core team of collaborator artists and academic theoreticians from Cardiff who travelled to locations in Wales, Scotland and Australia to work with guest collaborators at those locations. Stitt conceived, designed and directed the project. The idea was to displace physically the Trace ‘artspace’, and to some degree ‘reconstruct’ it at each new location, in order to allow invited collaborators from other locations to explore how new settings affect the performance-installation-archiving relationship. For example in Sydney, Australia, the artists lived in residence at Artspace for eight weeks creating continuous performance that included building and dismantling the 1:1 replica house installation in the Artspace galleries. The effect of bringing together documents of performance/installations for which documentation was integral was the emergence of themes of recall, location and displacement.
