Follow this page for announcements of events and publications, calls for papers, and other information about and around our activities. For short essays about our work, see Writings.

Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge at symposium “Revolving Documents #1,” June 9-10
Join on June 10 at the Museum Tinguely in Basel for presentations from each of the four members of Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge.

The Afterlives of Performance: May 24, 2022
We’ll see you online on May 24 for a talk and panel discussion about lives and afterlives of performance.

Join us at the College Art Association Annual Conference on March 3
Join us for the CAA panel “Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation” on Thursday, March 3, at 9:00 a.m. CST / 4:00 p.m. CET.

Call for papers: Conserving performance, performing conservation
Submit an abstract to our upcoming (online) session at the College Art Association’s annual conference! Theoretical, art historical, practice-based and experimental contributions are all welcome.

Call for proposals – Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care
Submit a paper for presentation at our colloquium in May, “Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care – #1. Mapping the Field.”

Hello, we are “Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge”
How can live art be preserved for the future? And what does conservation theory and practice have to teach other disciplines seeking to understand art’s most ephemeral medium?