extrapole hopes to develop a digital editorial platform dedicated to documenting and archiving artistic practices in the performing arts field. 

Through this initiative, we are looking to emphasize the importance of craftsmanship in artistic work. We intend to value its collective and technical aspects, its symbolic and structural challenges, as well as the interweaving aesthetic, socio-cultural, and political concerns. It then becomes a matter of describing artistic work in terms of rich and complex ecosystems rather than frozen forms, which is much closer to the contemporary aesthetic experience.

 In order to launch this endeavor, we would like to unite a variety of partners: researchers, artists, production and distribution companies, and resource centers, all interested in developing and circulating alternative critical formats.   

There are many possible forms of collaboration: contributing to the documentary archives (production archives, records of creative processes, various events surrounding a production), contributing to the development of critical content for the editorial collection, supporting the documents’ dissemination and the platform’s visibility…


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