Emma Metcalfe Hurst

Archiving for the Performing Arts

Posted by emmamh in Archives, Event, Performing arts, Presentation

Summer 2018 – Archiving for the Performing Arts Presented by Karen Jamieson Dance Karen Jamieson Dance and The Dance Centre partnered with Simon Fraser University’s Special Collections and Rare Books to host Archiving for the Performing Arts, a free roundtable discussion focusing on records management and archival practices for performing arts organizations in Vancouver. Supported in part by SFU’s Community Engagement Initiative. Presenters included myself as well as: Melissa Salrin, Head of Special Collections and Rare Books at Simon Fraser University Melanie Hardbattle, Archivist for the Special Collections and Rare…read more

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Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story

Posted by emmamh in Archives, Curatorial, Event, Media, Performing arts, Podcast

Fall 2021 – Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story is an archival research and oral history project produced by Karen Jamieson Dance that recounts that looks back at the early collaborative work Coming Out of Chaos (1982) to tell a story of the emergence of contemporary dance in Vancouver. I had the opportunity to interview 17 established and mid-career contemporary dancers, choreographers, administrators, dance historians and critics, as well as six of the original Coming Out of Chaos collaborators. The…read more

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Acts of Transfer: Performance Art in the Western Front Archive

Posted by emmamh in Archives, Curatorial, Film, Media, Performing arts

Spring 2018 – Acts of Transfer: Performance Art in the Western Front Archive Acts of Transfer: Performance Art in the Western Front Archive is a web-based archival project that I developed for a newly digitized A/V collection of performance art by women-identifying artists at the Western Front from 1975-2006. I conducted a rigorous permissions process by contacting artists directly, documenting how (and if) they want their work presented online, and offering them copies of their digitized works. The final product materialized as an interactive media timeline that hosted 65 newly…read more

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Western Front

Posted by emmamh in Archives, Collection, Curatorial, Media, Performing arts, Writing

2017-2018 – Archives and Media Intern, Western Front Developed the web-based archival research project Acts of Transfer: Performance Art in the Western Front Archive; featuring 65 newly digitized performance artworks by women-identifying artists in the Western Front archives from 1975-2006. Curated a selection of works and generated new descriptions for the works on the project website/archives. Digitized audio-visual materials including: 6” Open Reel, Umatic SP, Mini DV. Updated permissions for use and access documentation for digitized performance works of 65 artists. Organized, described, and developed storage for WF poster collection….read more

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Karen Jamieson Dance

Posted by emmamh in Archives, Performing arts, Podcast

Summer 2020-Present – Dance Archivist for Karen Jamieson Dance (Co-op Work Experience) Assisted with metadata creation for 28 digital assets to be ingested into Arca. Spearheaded the implementation of Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels for 7 items in collaboration with Indigenous creators (ongoing). Implemented archival storage for photographic materials from the KJD archives. Organized materials into 5 binders with descriptive information for access and preservation (ongoing). Assisted with archival research, requests, and digitization for the production of the film “Body to Land: Stone Soup” (forthcoming in 2021). Created an inventory for…read more

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