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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.
List 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.V¿.Tion 13. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi: Dance, Embodied Preservation, and Unlearning in India 14.
Ryxper1126ae, 2018 15. Gisela Hochuli:
In Strange Hands 16. Joanna Le¿nierowska: Performance Conservation as a Political Act 17. Towards Conservative Performance: A Manifesto
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
