Open Science for Arts, Design and Music/Guidelines/Case studies/Together Elsewhere

Title: Together Elsewhere

Proposed by: HGK, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW

Disciplinary field: performance art

Communication support : live-streaming events, community-posts on PANCH-Communication Channels and FHNW Website

Type of content: performance art

Timeframe of the project: 2021–ongoing

Author(s): Pavana Reid (artist, Performance Art Bergen (PAB)), Gisela Hochuli (artist, Performance Art Network CH (PANCH)), Dr. Tabea Lurk (Mediathek/Production, HGK FHNW), Jürgen Enge (Bibliothek/Production, Basel University)

Third-party copyright owners: All material are licensed CC BY 4.0

Grantmakers, sponsors or other funding agencies: Performance Art Bergen (PAB), Mediathek HGK FHNW

Together Elsewhere

Summary of the case study and link

"Together Elsewhere" is a collaborative networking project in which one performance artist from Switzerland and one from Norway perform together for 30 minutes in the virtual space of a live streaming. Before the performance, the spatial constellations, specific objects to be used and other aspects are agreed upon. As a growing resource, "Together Elsewhere" adds each month one live event which is then continued/stabilised as video document – publicly available.

Problems/questions

Reference: How to properly reference artworks and in particular performing arts
Copyright: Clarify copyright issues in the field of performing arts (e.g. related rights)
Persistent identifiers and metadata: How to ensure longterm findability through cataloguing and indexing practices

Solutions and development

Even if no free licenses can be granted on videos in Switzerland due to copyright law, such a license is applied in the files and displayed. In addition: the media library covers the costs for the collecting societies and is considering implementing a player that turns video on demand into video with delay so that it can continue to afford to make such content available.