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Which Life of an afterlife? By Felipe Ribeiro

In this essay, our visiting researcher Felipe Ribeiro, challenges the tendency to view performance art primarily through its afterlivesโ€”documentation, restaging, or institutional preservationโ€”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.

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Coalescing Practices in Conservation and Performance, by Nicole Savoy

Once again, we invited Nicole Savoy, an alumna of the Hochschule der Kรผnste Bern, Conservation of Modern Materials and Media, to report on our research festival. Nicole offers a conservatorโ€™s perspective on the performance conservation methods explored during the event, both traditional and radical. See also Nicole's previous reports on our thirdย andย second colloquiumย as well as her earlier review of our conversation with Claire Bishop.

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Conserving Performance by Performing Networks of Care, by Friederike Schรคfer

Art historian and postdoctoral researcher Friederike Schรคfer reflects on the fifth day of our research festival and exhibition, Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation (September 14โ€“29, 2024). This event invited discussions among artists, activists, conservators, and cultural workers across sectors, with the thematic focus "Collecting and Preserving as an Act of Care."

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Collecting and Preserving Performance Art in Brazil: Establishing Protocols for Musealization in Public Museums, by Fernanda Werneck Cรดrtes and Anna Paula da Silva

The acquisition of performance art by museums in Brazil faces challenges due to its ephemeral nature, requiring living bodies, financial resources, and extensive documentation. To address this, the Musealization of Art (mARTE) research group has launched a project to create protocols that guide Brazilian public museums in acquiring and preserving performance art, focusing on cataloging, conservation, legal aspects, and activation history.

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Not, Yet: When Our Art is in Our Hands – Rebecca Schneider and Hanna Hรถlling

When we ask about how to conserve performance-based art, what are we asking? If we think of performance as itself a mode of conservation, what are we thinking? What is at stake in conserving changeability? Variability by design is as old as storytelling and the โ€œchanging same,โ€ to quote Amiri Baraka, is a powerful mode of survivance. Thinking with hands, in this antiphonal call and response, a talking-with, Rebecca Schneider and Hanna Hรถlling consider what performance might teach us about endurance, duration, fungibility and the โ€œnot, yet.โ€ What are the conditions in which the โ€œnot, yetโ€ can thrive?