This project focuses on the question of conservation of performance-based artworks. Being of intrinsically short duration and involving the human body, performance-based artworks challenge the common assumptions that a work of art can be fixed, static and “conservable”-an object easily constrained by the established systems of documentation and archival order. Because performance materialises only in a short temporal frame and thus refuses any enduring, material manifestation, its conservability seems beyond the bounds of possibility. As this project will demonstrate, these temporal specifics of performance-based forms are additionally complicated by the very notion of traditional conservation which too often disregards the intangible aspects of heritage conveyance: the transmission of memory, skill, technique, and tacit knowledge. Unravelling the complexities involved in the conservation of performance-based forms, this project aims to expose the theoretical and practical apparatuses of conservation, its attachment to traditional paradigms, and the resultant shortcomings in the sphere of the intangible. Taking as a starting point the necessity for conservators to access and deepen this area of study, the proposed project sets out to accomplish three principal aims: (i) Using selected examples of institutions and artworks, the project will review and systematise emerging approaches to the newly established subfield of the conservation of performance-based artworks.(ii) In order to ensure that these works are preserved and accessible in the future, this project will also explore new methods for conserving performance-based works through (a) forms of documentation and archives, (b) material residues and (c) the transmission of knowledge. (iii) Building on such a focus, the project will reflect on conservation as a knowledge-generating activity and test its potential contribution to broader discourses in performance studies, anthropology, art history and aesthetics.
| Id | 198 |
|---|---|
| Grant Value | 702 |
| Commencement Date / Completion Date | 1 October 2022 - UNSPECIFIED |
| Contributors | Prof Dr Hanna Barbara Hölling (Principle Investigator) |
| Funders | [UNSPECIFIED] Swiss National Science Foundation |
| URI | https://performanceconservationmaterialityknowledge.com/two-questions/ |
| Keywords | performance, heritage, preservation, conservation, short duration, event, documentation, archive, knowledge, memory |
| Publications |
Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Feldman, Julia Pelta; Ribeiro, Felipe; Diagne, Mariama; Lasica, Shelley
(24 May 2022).
The Afterlives of Performance - Keynote. With response by Jules Pelta Feldman, followed by a panel discussion with Mariama Diagne, Shelley Lasica and Felipe Ribeiro
In:
New School, Something Great.
Berlin: New School, Something Great
Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Feldman, Julia Pelta; Magnin, Emilie; Maly, Valerian (10 June 2022). Performance: Four Perspectives - A panel by/with Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, Emilie Magnin and Valerian Maly In: Revolving Documents #1: Narrations of the Beginnings of Performance Art - BANG BANG translocal hi:stories of performance art. Basel: Museum Tinguely Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Feldman, Julia Pelta; Magnin, Emilie; Wielocha, Aga (30 September 2022). Conserving Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Second Annual Colloquium organized by SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, Bern University of the Arts. In: Conserving Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Bern, Online: 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. Auslander, Philip; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2022). Two Questions: Philip Auslander, in conversation with Hanna Hölling [Movie]. In: Two Questions. Bern: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Bodor, Judit; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2021). Two Questions: Judit Bodor, in conversation with Hanna Hölling [Movie]. In: Two Questions. Bern: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Dupré, Sven; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2022). Two Questions: Sven Dupré, in conversation with Hanna Hölling [Movie]. In: Two Questions. Bern: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Gordon, Rebecca; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2022). Two Questions: Rebecca Gordon, in conversation with Hanna Hölling [Movie]. In: Two Questions. Bern: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Higgings, Hannah B.; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2022). Two Questions: Hannah B Higgins, in conversation with Hanna Hölling [Movie]. In: Two Questions. Bern: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Rivenc, Rachel; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2022). Two Questions: Rachel Rivenc, in conversation with Hanna Hölling [Movie]. In: Two Questions. Bern: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Sunde, Sarah Cameron; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2022). Two Questions: Sarah Cameron Sunde, in conversation with Hanna Hölling [Movie]. In: Two Questions. Bern: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Turner, Kay; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2022). Two Questions: Kay Turner, in conversation with Hanna Hölling [Movie]. In: Two Questions. Bern: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Wharton, Glenn; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2022). Two Questions: Glenn Wharton, in conversation with Hanna Hölling [Movie]. In: Two Questions. Bern: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Gusman, Tancredi; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2022). Two Questions: Tancredi Gusman, in conversation with Hanna Hölling [Movie]. In: Two Questions. Bern: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge |
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