ABSTRACT
Documentation and knowledge creation are seen to be operating in 'parallel and even convergent' ways. This consideration is of crucial importance within the context of most artistic practices that have a stake in documentation, be it performance, interactive arts, new media, game studies, the design of mixed reality work, or other, showing that documentation is not only a form of evidence or validation that is useful for preservation, but also that it is a crucial aspect of knowledge creation and transmission. Documentation is shot 'from the point of view of someone in the audience in a "normal" viewing position'. Ultimately, performance and documentation comprise architectures, entail practices, and lead to transformations whereby each part is able to activate a whole, a whole that in and of itself, remains, however, elusive, ephemeral and ungraspable, just like life itself.
