Recordings of past events are available on each event’s page.
Upcoming
On September 30, 1:30-7:30, we are organizing our second annual colloquium, titled: Performance Conservation – Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Stay tuned for a full program to be announced soon.
Past
Brandie Macdonald, Senior Director of Decolonizing Initiatives at the Museum of Us, located on Kumeyaay Nation territory in San Diego, California, will discuss the preservation and transmission of living heritage in the museum context.
College Art Association Annual Conference: Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation
March 3, 2022
Four different talks at our CAA panel explored different approaches to the conservation of ephemeral art.
Can Performance (Art) Be Conserved? Claire Bishop in Conversation
September 29, 2021
What does it mean to conserve performance art, to extend its lifespan into the future? Art historian and critic Claire Bishop will discuss these and related questions with the PCMK team.
Living Materials: Ethics and Principles for Embodied Stewardship. A Conversation Between Cori Olinghouse and Megan Metcalf
June 10, 2021
This conversation between artist and archivist Cori Olinghouse and art historian Megan Metcalf examines embodied conservation skills, which are essential for the preservation of performance and related mediums yet remain mostly invisible and under-theorized in visual art.
This online event is the first event in a series of annual colloquia on the topic of the conservability of performance art and performance-based works. Conservators, scholars, curators, and artists contest the common-sense understanding of performance as a non-conservable form and ask questions concerning how, and to what extent, performance art and performance-based works can be conserved.
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Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge 