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Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events is the title of a presentation delivered by Paul Stapleton at the AHDS Performing Arts Summer School: Digital Representations of Performing Arts. The abstract is available here. A write up by Richard Lewis of Digital Representations of Performing Arts is available here. A different presentation under the same title will be delivered at DRHA 2007. Both presentations aim to contextualize and reflect on the recently finished research project Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events.

Live Archives Workshops 2-5 April 2007 University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Artefacts, memories, and discussions that have been created as part of the Live Archives Workshops are available online at this location (please check back for updates). (More...)

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Day1                                                                                                      Day3 I focussed in and out. As I walked to the herb garden, my noisy coat was pretty much the major landscape sound. Is this narcissistic or is everyone else so aware of their footfalls? (Javascript required (More...)

After much hard work, I’ve managed to upload a sound of me fiddling about with a drain pipe in the ‘herb’ garden. If the drains in Harris building are blocked, it’s my fault… (Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please (More...)

Caroline Pugh is a musician based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She sings traditional songs and makes experimental noises with her vocal chords, plays medieval harps, gives workshops for community projects, teaches and much much (More...)

The Dialogic Evidence project aimed to explore the possibility of a productive co-existence between performance and documentation practices. An article on this project in the online Body, Space and Technology Journal is now available here. This 10-month project (mid September 2006 through mid July 2007) was directed by Dr Paul Stapleton and supported by a Small Grant in The Creative and Performing Arts from The Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). (More...)

Please note, any site feedback should now be directed here.  Mike Fallows is a designer based in Manchester, UK. He is principally responsible for the design and construction of LiveArchives. (More...)