Performance

The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, Volume I
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-31487-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seen
through the lens of conservation, which has long been overlooked in the larger
theoretical debates about whether and how performance remains.

Unraveling the complexities involved in the conservation of performance,
Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care (vol. 1)
brings this new understanding to bear in examining performance as an object of
study, experience, acquisition, and care. In so doing, it presents both theoretical
frameworks and functional paradigms for thinking about—and enacting—the
conservation of performance. Further, while the conservation of performance is
undertheorized, performance is nevertheless increasingly entering the art
market and the museum, meaning that there is an urgent need for discourse on
how to care for these works long-term. In recent years, a few pioneering conservators,
curators, and scholars have begun to create frameworks for the longterm
care of performance. This volume presents, explicates, and contextualizes
their work so that a larger discourse can commence. It will thus serve the needs
of conservation students and professors, for whom literature on this subject is
sorely needed.

This interdisciplinary book thus implements a novel rethinking of performance
that will challenge and revitalize its conception in many fields, such as art history,
theater, performance studies, heritage studies, and anthropology.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hölling, Hanna B

Feldman, Jules Pelta

Magnin, Emilie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of contributors

Introduction: Caring for performance

HANNA B. HÖLLING, JULES PELTA FELDMAN AND EMILIE MAGNIN

PART I
Care: Theoretical entanglements

1 Charisma and desire in the conservation of performance art

PIP LAURENSON

2 Not, yet: When our art is in our hands

REBECCA SCHNEIDER AND HANNA B. HÖLLING

3 Vitality and the conservation of performance

HÉLIA MARÇAL

4 Conserving the un-conservable: Documenting environmental performance for the twenty-first century

GABRIELLA GIANNACHI

5 Innovation and preservation: Shadreck Chirikure on the performance of heritage—A conversation with Hanna B. Hölling

PART II
The politics and institutions of care

6 An experimental acquisition: Ralph Lemon’s Scaffold Room (2014)
at the Walker

IONA GOLDIE-SCOT

7 In the shadow of the state: Collecting performance at IMMA and
institutions of care in the Irish context

BRIAN CASTRIOTA AND CLAIRE WALSH

8 Towards a performance continuum: Archival strategies for
performance-based artworks

FARRIS WAHBEH

9 Peeling the paint off the walls: Kelli Morgan on Black performance
and racial justice in Western Institutions

HANNA B. HOLLING, JULES PELTA FELDMAN AND EMILIE MAGNIN

10 Performing the “Mask”: Kongo Astronauts (Eléonore Hellio and
Michel Ekeba) on postcolonial entanglements

HANNA B. HOLLING, EMILIE MAGNIN, VALERIAN MALY AND JACOB BADCOCK

PART III
Living conservation

11 Knowledge has to live: Dread Scott on Slave Rebellion
Reenactment (2019)

JULES PELTA FELDMAN

12 Conserving a performance about conservation: Care and
preservation in Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s maintenance art

KAROLINA WILCZYN´ SKA

13 Living materials: Ethics and principles for embodied stewardship

CORI OLINGHOUSE AND MEGAN METCALF

14 Precarious movements: Contemporary dance as contemporary art

ERIN BRANNIGAN AND LOUISE LAWSON

15 Potential afterlives: Cauleen Smith on the relation of film to
performance

HANNA B. HÖLLING AND JULES PELTA FELDMAN

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hanna B. Hölling is Research Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences—Academy of the Arts and Honorary Fellow, Department of History of Art, University College London.

Jules Pelta Feldman is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Bern University of Applied Sciences— Academy of the Arts.

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