Tag: critical conservation

In this essay, our visiting researcher Felipe Ribeiro, challenges the tendency to view performance art primarily through its afterlives—documentation, restaging, or institutional preservation—and instead advocates for recognizing its endured life as a continuous, open-ended process shaped by accumulation, incompletion, and relationality. Using the evolving project Common Ground as a case study, the author proposes performance as a living, transformative practice that resists fixation and invites ongoing negotiation, collective participation, and speculative engagement. Rather than treating performance as something that ends and is later remembered, the text calls for practices that sustain its vitality and presence across time and contexts.