Anna Schäffler: The Art of Preservation. An invited lecture and a panel discussion jointly organized by SNSF Activating Fluxus and SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge within the Research Wednesday seminar series, Bern University of the Arts

Schäffler, Anna; Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Wielocha, Aga; Feldman, Julia Pelta; Magnin, Emilie (21 December 2022). Anna Schäffler: The Art of Preservation. An invited lecture and a panel discussion jointly organized by SNSF Activating Fluxus and SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge within the Research Wednesday seminar series, Bern University of the Arts In: Research Wednesday seminar series. Bern University of the Arts. 21 December 2022.

Today’s challenges in dealing with the legacy of contemporary artists require new structural models for preservation and are leading to a radical shift of our western memory culture. Based on her own experience of working with the estate of German conceptual artist Anna Oppermann (1943-1992) Anna Schäffler argues that rather than conserve once and forever a given material state, we need new, cooperative forms of preservation that allow for the further evolution and change of a work of art in line with the artistic concept. In the wake of the dissolution of the arts in the 1960s the kind of preservation she proposes amounts to a new dissolution: Given that so-called “networks of care” take on preservation tasks leads to a profound restructuring of museums in their function as repositories of memory and reveals the instituent potential of contemporary art preservation. In elevating preservation to a condition of contemporary art, Anna suggests a radical perspective on preservation practices enabling the contemporaneity of contemporary art in the atomic age.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Division/Institute:	Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture > Contemporary Art and Media
Name:	Schäffler, Anna; Hölling, Hanna Barbara0000-0002-3063-4405; Wielocha, Aga0000-0001-8751-9574; Feldman, Julia Pelta0000-0001-8308-5174 and Magnin, Emilie0000-0001-7160-1725
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Funders:	[7] Swiss National Science Foundation
Projects:	[198] Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Official URL [199] Activating Fluxus Official URL
Language:	English
Submitter:	Hanna Barbara Hölling
Date Deposited:	12 Dec 2022 15:37
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2022 15:37
Related URLs:	https://performanceconservationmateriali...
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/18134