Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care, Volume I

ISBN-13: 9781032314877 / Angielski

Hanna B. Hölling; Julia Pelta Feldman; Emilie Magnin

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This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seen through the lens of conservation, which has long been overlooked in the larger theoretical debates about whether and how performance remains.

Unravelling the complexities involved in the conservation of performance, ‘Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care’ brings this new understanding to bear in examining performance as an object of study, experience, acquisition, and care. In so doing, it presents both theoretical frameworks and functional paradigms for thinking about – and enacting – the conservation of performance. Further, while the conservation of performance is undertheorized, performance is nevertheless increasingly entering the art market and the museum, meaning that there is an urgent need for discourse on how to care for these works long-term. In recent years, a few pioneering conservators, curators, and scholars have begun to create frameworks for the long-term care of performance. This volume presents, explicates, and contextualizes their work so that a larger discourse can commence. It will thus serve the needs of conservation students and professors, for whom literature on this subject is sorely needed.

This interdisciplinary book thus implements a novel rethinking of performance that will challenge and revitalize its conception in many fields, such as art history, theater, performance studies, heritage studies, and anthropology.

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List of figures

List of contributors

Introduction: Caring for performance 
HANNA B. HÖLLING, JULES PELTA FELDMAN AND EMILIE MAGNIN

PART I
Care: Theoretical entanglements

1 Charisma and desire in the conservation of performance art 
PIP LAURENSON

2 Not, yet: When our art is in our hands 
REBECCA SCHNEIDER AND HANNA B. HÖLLING

3 Vitality and the conservation of performance 
HÉLIA MARÇAL

4 Conserving the un-conservable: Documenting environmental performance for the twenty-first century 
GABRIELLA GIANNACHI

5 Innovation and preservation: Shadreck Chirikure on the performance of heritage—A conversation with Hanna B. Hölling

PART II
The politics and institutions of care

6 An experimental acquisition: Ralph Lemon’s Scaffold Room (2014)
at the Walker 
IONA GOLDIE-SCOT

7 In the shadow of the state: Collecting performance at IMMA and
institutions of care in the Irish context 
BRIAN CASTRIOTA AND CLAIRE WALSH

8 Towards a performance continuum: Archival strategies for
performance-based artworks 
FARRIS WAHBEH

9 Peeling the paint off the walls: Kelli Morgan on Black performance
and racial justice in Western Institutions 
HANNA B. HOLLING, JULES PELTA FELDMAN AND EMILIE MAGNIN

10 Performing the “Mask”: Kongo Astronauts (Eléonore Hellio and
Michel Ekeba) on postcolonial entanglements 
HANNA B. HOLLING, EMILIE MAGNIN, VALERIAN MALY AND JACOB BADCOCK

PART III
Living conservation

11 Knowledge has to live: Dread Scott on Slave Rebellion
Reenactment (2019) 
JULES PELTA FELDMAN

12 Conserving a performance about conservation: Care and
preservation in Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s maintenance art 
KAROLINA WILCZYN´ SKA

13 Living materials: Ethics and principles for embodied stewardship 
CORI OLINGHOUSE AND MEGAN METCALF

14 Precarious movements: Contemporary dance as contemporary art 
ERIN BRANNIGAN AND LOUISE LAWSON

15 Potential afterlives: Cauleen Smith on the relation of film to
performance 
HANNA B. HÖLLING AND JULES PELTA FELDMAN

Index

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Hanna B. Hölling is Research Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences—Academy of the Arts and Honorary Fellow, Department of History of Art, University College London.

Jules Pelta Feldman is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Bern University of Applied Sciences— Academy of the Arts.

Emilie Magnin is a Doctoral Candidate at Bern University/ University of Applied Sciences—Academy of the Arts and a Conservator for Media Art and Installations at the Kunstmuseum Bern.