Anarchiving a Screendance Archive. Reenacting Choreographic Traces within Museo Madre

Abstract

This essay draws attention to the screendance archive of Il Coreografo Elettronico Festival stored within Museo Madre of Naples and curated in collaboration with a team of scholars from the Sapienza University of Rome. By exploring the conceptual model of the term choreographic object (Forsythe 2008-2018), the article explains how Il Coreografo Elettronico Archive can provide a transversal case of study through which analyse the increasing presence of dance/choreographic exhibitions within museum spaces from three different perspectives. Long the paper, the concept of anarchive (Massumi-Manning 2016) is applied as a central principle of the research. It is used as an approach to link the three perspectives together and to explain how the exhibition of choreographic objects within museums can reconfigure the social empowerment in the contemporary environment.