IRIS SCACCHERI’S COLLECTION: LOOKING FOR THE LOST MATERIALS

Abstract

Body, conservation, its memory: these three topics can help us to think about the Iris Scaccheri’s Collection, an unpublished compilation of the choreographer, dancer and poet of dance from the city of La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina). From primary sources (texts, essays and video works, handbills) and secondary sources (testimonies, photos and newspaper clippings) we are looking for the conformation of an archive (Glozman, 2018-2020; Tambutti, 2019; Lepecki, 2013) in our local historiography.

Taking into consideration the diversity of materials and the organization and selection criteria that any narrative implies, we discuss the typical and extraordinary series where our artist can be placed. Therefore, she positions herself as an outsider (Becker, 2009). Moreover, her ‘dislocated, impertinent and unspecific’ poetics allows us to think of the body as the intermedial, as an object of study for dance but also for the arts, as well as its projections to build and revise memory.