1st Edition

Performance The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, Volume II

336 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Representing the output of the research project "Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge," this volume brings together diverse voices, methods, and formats in the discussion and practice of performance conservation. Conservators, artists, curators and scholars explore the ontology of performance art through its creation and institutionalization into an astonishing range of methods and... Read more

Part 1 Expanding Scholarly Approaches to the Longevity of Performance

1. "Once Upon a Time": Performative Ultra-Conceptualism and Storytelling as Conservation—Florence Jung

Hanna B. Hölling

2. Contesting Heritage: Artistic and Cultural (Re)Appropriations of Apulian Tarantism

Michaela Schäuble

3. Can We Conserve Music?

Thomas Gartmann

4. Curating Performance as Conservation? Thoughts on Queer Communion: Ron Athey

Amelia Jones

5. Philip Auslander: Can We Conserve Performance?

A Conversation with Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, and Emilie Magnin

Part 2 Confronting Institutions

6. Performance in the Museum: Shifting Roles in Performance Art Stewardship

Emilie Magnin

7. Reviving Culture: Puawai Cairns’s Vision for Dynamic Museums and Performance Conservation

A Conversation with Jules Pelta Feldman

8. Valinda Carroll, Kayla Henry-Griffin, Nylah Byrd, and Ariana Makau of Black Art Conservators on Black Objects, Performance, and the Future of Conservation

A Conversation with Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, and Emilie Magnin

9. Brandie Macdonald: Conserving "Us": Caring for Living Heritage, Oral Tradition, and Indigenous Knowledge

A Conversation with Emilie Magnin

10. Copyright Implications of the Preservation of Performance Art

Sandra Sykora

Part 3 Conservation through Artistic and Embodied Practice

11. Davide-Christelle Sanvee’s La performance des performances as Critical Conservation

Jules Pelta Feldman

12. Rosanna Raymond on Conser.Vā.Tion

A Conversation with Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, and Emilie Magnin

13. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi: Dance, Embodied Preservation, and Unlearning in India

A Conversation with Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, and Emilie Magnin

14. Ryxper1126ae, 2018

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė

15. Gisela Hochuli: In Strange Hands

A Conversation with Hanna B. Holling, Jules Pelta Feldman, and Emilie Magnin

16. Joanna Leśnierowska: Performance Conservation as a Political Act

A Conversation with Hanna B. Holling

17. Towards Conservative Performance: A Manifesto

Ido Feder

Biography

Hanna B. Hölling is Research Professor at Bern Academy of the Arts and Honorary Associate Professor, University College London.

Jules Pelta Feldman was formerly Postdoctoral Fellow at Bern Academy of the Arts and is now Assistant Researcher at the Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley.

Emilie Magnin is a Doctoral Candidate at Bern University and Bern Academy of the Arts, and a Conservator for Media Art and Installations at the Kunstmuseum Bern.