Interdisciplinary and global in scope, "Performing Archives/Archives of Performance" investigates the relationship between live performance and recordings, bringing new--and productive--tensions between permanence and ephemerality into relief. Advancing theoretical understandings and analyzing specific artworks, performances, and archives, the contributors formulate new ways of understanding history, memory, enactment, and intervention, offering major contributions to ongoing critical discussions on performance and its disappearance and reproduction.