YET TO COME: EXPERIMENTS IN REVERSE-ENGINEERING AND CONSERVING PERFORMANCE – AN EXHIBITION, HKB BERN

Yet To Come: Experiments in Reverse-Engineering and Conserving Performance is an exhibition about a performance that has not happened yet. Not unlike a conventional display of performative works, it involves moving images, photographs, objects, scores and documentation as well as alternative means of keeping performances alive.

The exhibition reverse-engineers performance, starting, anachronically, from what the event will have generated. Here, the performance event has not occurred, and yet its “material” has already arrived. The exhibition thus experimentally questions the perceived linearity of time—a past followed by a present and a future—disrupting the ontology of causality and effect. Performance lingers in the intervals among these material forms, in the “future perfect” of potential scenarios, in the disruptive a priori of conservation.

Read more here: https://performanceconservationmaterialityknowledge.com/yet-to-come-exp…

and visit the exhibition at HKB Bern, Directors Hall, Fellerstrasse 11 untill September 29.

This exhibition is a part of the research festival “Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation” organized by Joanna Leśnierowska, Andrej Mirčev, Charles Wrapner, Emilie Magnin and Hanna Hölling that concludes the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge (SNSF 2020-24).

The final event of this festival, "Collecting and Preserving as an Act of Care," will take place at Dampfzentrale Bern, on September 28, 10am-7pm.