Performance by Hölling, Hanna B.; Feldman, Jules Pelta; Magnin, Emilie;

Short description:

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.

Long description:

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 approaches for keeping performance alive and well, whether inside museum collections or through folk traditions. Anchored in the disciplines of contemporary art conservation, art history, and performance studies, the contributions range far beyond these to include perspectives from anthropology, musicology, dance, law, heritage studies, and other fields. While its focus is on performance as understood in the context of contemporary art, the book’s notion of performance is much wider, including other media such as music, theater, and dance as well as an open-ended concept of performance as a vital force across culture(s).

While providing cutting-edge research on an emerging and important topic, this volume remains accessible to all interested readers, allowing it to serve as a singularly valuable resource for museum professionals, scholars, students, and practitioners.

Table of Contents:

Part 1 Expanding Scholarly Approaches to the Longevity of Performance  1. "Once Upon a Time": Performative Ultra-Conceptualism and Storytelling as Conservation—Florence Jung  2. Contesting Heritage: Artistic and Cultural (Re)Appropriations of Apulian Tarantism  3. Can We Conserve Music?  4. Curating Performance as Conservation? Thoughts on Queer Communion: Ron Athey  5. Philip Auslander: Can We Conserve Performance?  Part 2 Confronting Institutions  6. Performance in the Museum: Shifting Roles in Performance Art Stewardship  7. Reviving Culture: Puawai Cairns’s Vision for Dynamic Museums and Performance Conservation  8. Valinda Carroll, Kayla Henry-Griffin, Nylah Byrd, and Ariana Makau of Black Art Conservators on Black Objects, Performance, and the Future of Conservation  9. Brandie Macdonald: Conserving "Us": Caring for Living Heritage, Oral Tradition, and Indigenous Knowledge  10. Copyright Implications of the Preservation of Performance Art  Part 3 Conservation through Artistic and Embodied Practice  11. Davide-Christelle Sanvee’s La performance des performances as Critical Conservation  12. Rosanna Raymond on Conser.Vā.Tion  13. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi: Dance, Embodied Preservation, and Unlearning in India  14. Ryxper1126ae, 2018  15. Gisela Hochuli: In Strange Hands  16. Joanna Leśnierowska: Performance Conservation as a Political Act  17. Towards Conservative Performance: A Manifesto