Performance Conservation: Questions for Artists

We are collecting responses from artists engaged with performance about their own thoughts and feelings on conservation and performance’s afterlives. We will be grateful for your comments!

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Do you think about the longevity or afterlives of your performance works? How would you like them to be conserved – recorded, presented, recreated, known – in the future?

Are your works safer in collecting institutions (like museums) or outside of them?

Do you see performance as a method or technique for conserving the past – revisiting or reinterpreting past artworks or events in the present? How so?

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts and supporting our research!

Featured image: Gisela Hochuli performs In Strange Hands II (2022) over Zoom at our second annual colloquium, Performance Conservation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.