Constructing remnants: Determining strategies for Performance Documentation

Abstract

This paper address methodolgoical issues involved in the video documentation of live performance, using, as a case study, a recording the author made of Brink Theatre’s 2005 production of Sarah Kane’s '4.48 Psychosis' in the Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide. The paper explains his goals in the documentation process and comment on the inadequacies of video by providing the meta-data required to enable a viewer to understand the spatial and performance-related information represented within the video recording. It also considers feedback from the director and an academic user of the recording.