Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, Vol. 2
We are happy to announce that the second volume of our anthology Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care has received a book grant from the Swiss National Foundation! With the support of this grant, we will be able to make the book freely and immediately available online as Gold Open Access. The volume, which is currently in production with Routledge, will be published this fall in hardback, paperback, and as an e-book.
Representing the output of the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, this second and last 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 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. 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).
With contributing authors: Amelia Jones, Michaela Schäuble, Thomas Gartmann, Philip Auslander, Puwai Cairns, Black Art Conservators Valinda Carroll, Kayla Henry-Griffin, Nylah Byrd and Ariana Makau, Brandie MacDonald, Sandra Sykora, Rosanna Raymond, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Gisela Hochuli, Joanna Lesnierowska, Ido Feder and the editors, Emilie Magnin, Jules Pelta Feldman and Hanna B. Hölling.
Themes and topics: critical conservation, storytelling as conservation, curation as conservation, the conservation of music, reviving culture, Black Objects and the future of conservation, caring for living heritage, shifting roles in performance art stewardship, copyright Implications of preservation of performance art, dance-embodied preservation- and unlearning in India, Conser.VĀ.tion, performance conservation as political act, and several artistic contributions including a manifesto.
Editors: Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman and Emilie Magnin
Forthcoming from Routledge this fall. The book preview is available at this link.
For the Open Access of the first volume, follow this link.
Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge 