Performing the Archives or Performance Art in a Process, Continued: It's on Your Head, It's in Your Head in the Realm of Banff's Acoustic Ecologies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Considering its role in the development of Canada, its iconic landscapes and the extensive art production at the Banff Centre, Banff is a significant site of Canadian visual culture requiring further analysis. Technological innovations, grappled with by artists during the latter half of the twentieth century (Michael Century), featured in exhibitions, residencies and on-site DIY radio stations at the Banff Centre in the Eighties and Nineties, culminating in the exhibition, Radio Rethink (1992) at the Walter Phillips Gallery. This thesis challenges how art history incorporates, remembers and contends with ephemeral performance artworks involving live radio transmissions and public interventions. The analysis focuses on an interview between Daina Augaitis, the curator of Radio Rethink (1992), and participating artist, Colette Urban, as regards Urban’s multi-day, performance art walk, It’s on Your Head, It’s in Your Head (1992). Archives of Banff Centre exhibitions, such as, Between Views and Points of View (1991) and As Public As Race (1992), and performance artworks by Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Rebecca Belmore, Margo Kane, Camille Turner and Diana Burgoyne, contextualize Urban’s work within the milieu of art production at the Banff Centre and public performance art in Canada around the turn of the twentieth century. By attempting to intercept, collaborate and respond to the archival interview through site-writing (Jane Rendell) and an interdisciplinary methodology (Katherine McKittrick), this thesis enacts the archive to reconceptualize the way we write about ephemeral works in Canada, and the parameters of artistic and spatial agency in commercially constructed and federally implicated public spaces.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.044 | 0.008 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".