{"id":7445,"date":"2021-01-22T11:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T11:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/?page_id=7445"},"modified":"2022-04-11T08:28:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T08:28:03","slug":"ephemeral-materialities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/en\/ephemeral-materialities\/","title":{"rendered":"EPHEMERAL MATERIALITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1591171321728{background-color: #93aa48 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;55px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1589532798682{padding-top: 90px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; ca_init_scale_x=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_init_scale_y=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_init_scale_z=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_init_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_an_scale_x=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_an_scale_y=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_an_scale_z=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_an_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; align=&#8221;text-left&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-md-offset-2 vc_col-md-8&#8243; ca_duration=&#8221;1200&#8243; ca_delay=&#8221;180&#8243; ca_init_translate_y=&#8221;73&#8243;]<style>.ld_fancy_heading_6a0c059b59974 h2{font-size:30px;line-height:1.222em;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);}.ld_fancy_heading_6a0c059b59974 .lqd-highlight-inner{height:0.275em;bottom:0px;}<\/style><div class=\"ld-fancy-heading mask-text ld_fancy_heading_6a0c059b59974\">\r\n\t<h2 class=\"lqd-highlight-underline lqd-highlight-grow-left\" data-split-text=\"true\" data-custom-animations=\"true\" data-ca-options='{\"triggerHandler\":\"inview\",\"animationTarget\":\".lqd-lines .split-inner\",\"duration\":700,\"delay\":100,\"easing\":\"easeOutQuint\",\"direction\":\"forward\",\"initValues\":{\"scale\":1},\"animations\":{\"scale\":1}}' data-split-options='{\"type\":\"lines\"}'><span class=\"ld-fh-txt\"> <span style=\"color: #93aa48\"><strong>EPHEMERAL MATERIALITIES: <\/strong><\/span><em>Performances and re-enactments<\/em><\/span><\/h2><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1589532858818{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; ca_init_scale_x=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_init_scale_y=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_init_scale_z=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_init_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_an_scale_x=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_an_scale_y=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_an_scale_z=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_an_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; align=&#8221;text-left&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-md-offset-2 vc_col-md-8&#8243; ca_duration=&#8221;1200&#8243; ca_delay=&#8221;180&#8243; ca_init_translate_y=&#8221;73&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>We will search for, catalogue, study and re-create devotional and commemorative practices, liturgical representations and monastic rituals based on monastic documentation (liturgical books and archive documents). We will produce and record a representation of these performances.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/en\/performances-database\/\">ACCESS TO THE DATABASE.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ritual-uso-de-un-convento-declarisas.-Bibliotea-de-Catalunya-paisatges-monastics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"872\" height=\"1230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ritual-uso-de-un-convento-declarisas.-Bibliotea-de-Catalunya-paisatges-monastics.jpg 872w, https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ritual-uso-de-un-convento-declarisas.-Bibliotea-de-Catalunya-paisatges-monastics-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ritual-uso-de-un-convento-declarisas.-Bibliotea-de-Catalunya-paisatges-monastics-726x1024.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Ritual for using a Clarissan convent. Library of Catalonia, Ms. 865, f. 5<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this line of research, we will address material culture and monastic topography based on the centrality of performances and the performative dimension of some of the practices (liturgical, devotional, commemorative, legal) discovered inside the monastery or associated with monastic communities (both inside and outside). The interest in performance has led to the development of an entire interdisciplinary field (art, anthropology, literature, theatre, gender studies, liturgy, etc.) which provides a highly intriguing interpretative framework for mediaeval studies. The mediaeval setting, and particularly the monastic setting, offers a privileged setting that ranges from religious dramas, representations and mysteries to rituals and processions on a specific feast day. Performance can be described specifically as the representation of a ceremony, ritual, drama or music or dance piece, or it can be described generically as any action with a \u201cpublic\u201d dimension in front of an audience with a transformative capacity for both the \u201cactors\u201d and the \u201caudience\u201d. In both senses, as Elina Gerstman suggests, the possibilities of relating mediaeval theatre, images, texts, objects and the practices of seeing, reading, listening, singing and representing come to the fore. Yet other authors have stressed the liminality of performance, its potentiality to create and overcome barriers, to resist authority and define identities; hence, the possibility within this performative context of discovering and signifying the agency of female monastic communities in creating and developing original aspects of their experience of liturgical and community time.<\/p>\n<p>In relation to the other line of research \u201cThe lived landscape: Topography of objects\u201d, we want to associate some of the objects from the inventories of the sacristy and the convent of the Sant Antoni and Santa Clara monastery of Barcelona with this range of representations, rituals and processions. This spans from liturgical objects (crosses, chalices, altar ornaments, vestments, etc.) to an entire gamut of ephemeral materiality (paper \u201cwafers\u201d, angels\u2019 wings, beards and hair, etc.) which become meaningful within the performative context that we want to signify in this line of research.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7293\" style=\"width: 995px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7293 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Psalter-paisatges-monastics_02.jpg\" alt=\"Psalter\" width=\"995\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Psalter-paisatges-monastics_02.jpg 995w, https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Psalter-paisatges-monastics_02-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 995px) 100vw, 995px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Queen Mary Psalter, British Library, Ms. Royal 2 B VII, f. 177.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the other hand, we want to focus our study on searching for and cataloguing these performances based on the corpus of manuscripts and archive documents in order to analyse questions like who, in what space, before what audience, wearing what clothing, with what objects and music and using what gestures (among others). Finally, one essential facet of our study will culminate with the re-enactment and representation in the present of some of these performances before an audience \u2013 not necessarily an expert one \u2013 which simultaneously stimulates the research itself and becomes a means of dissemination and participation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1589533823191{padding-top: 40px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;6846&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; image_max_width=&#8221;150px&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;6847&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; image_max_width=&#8221;200&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;6854&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; image_max_width=&#8221;250px&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7253&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; image_max_width=&#8221;200px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1591171321728{background-color: #93aa48 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;55px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1589532798682{padding-top: 90px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; ca_init_scale_x=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_init_scale_y=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_init_scale_z=&#8221;1&#8243; ca_init_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7445"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7962,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7445\/revisions\/7962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/proyectomonastic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}