In the newly published article, the performance scholar Philip Auslander and theorist Hanna B. Hölling argue that performance art cannot be conceived of or theorized apart from the object. An attempt to do so would strip a performance work of the larger context in which the action, whether bodily or machinic, is one element. Apart from ontological considerations, the history of the institutionalization of performance points to a rich material life of performance art, such as relics, residues and archival detritus.
Acts and artifacts: performance beyond ephemerality, by Philip Auslander and Hanna B. Hölling
Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge 