Hi
Noel:
Why
not do it this way:
1.
Create Object record for objects in performance. Yes.
2. On
Documentation card, add related exhibition information in Exhibition History
field (Documentation card). Your example is exactly the type of
data for which this field is meant.
3. Of
course, you can also create media records for video(s) of performance(s) and
link the Media record to object record.
4. I
like the Event record idea. Link to Object record(s). But, if the only info you
have is name and place of event, I don't know if it's worth it. Do you also know
names of performers? And dates, funders/sponsors, organizer of
event? If so, then creating an Events record would be great.
5. "33rd National Artists' Salon" should NOT go
in Historical Attributions field (unless you NEVER use this field for
attributions, and you want to repurpose and relabel
it...). Why not put "33rd National Artists'
Salon" in Remarks field in Geo. xref table? That way, it'll display w/location/geography
data.
7. Great use of Geo. xref
field!
That's my 2-cents
;-)
Your neighbor
at Gallery
Systems,
Annie
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Subject: Cataloguing
Performance Based Artworks
Dear TMS Users,
I am in the process of entering into
TMS data on objects included in an exhibition at el museo on performance art in
the Americas. I am
having an issue as to which field to enter the name of the exhibition or
festival that the documented performance/action was performed in. For
example one of the objects is a video of a performance by Colombian performance
artist Maria Teresa Hincapie. The video documents a performance held
during the “33rd National Artists’ Salon” in Bogota, Colombia. I
created an Object Geography Type called “Performance/Action
Place” and entered “Bogota” and
“Colombia” in the
Object Geography
City and Object Geography
Country fields respectively. However, I don’t know in which field to enter
“33rd National Artists’ Salon” - the Historical Attributions
field? (located within the Documentation tab of the Objects module data entry
screen). Should I create an Events module record for the performance event
and link Event record to Object record?
Your feedback will be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you,
Noel Valentin
Registrar
EL MUSEO DEL
BARRIO
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