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Visit Master's Thesis: Creating Afterlives: Preserving Traces of Performance Art from a Museological Perspective

Master's Thesis: Creating Afterlives: Preserving Traces of Performance Art from a Museological Perspective

This research explores the conflict that emerges when applying registration practices into performance art. As the ephemerality of performance art is perceived as essential for this art genre...

Visit Between Evidence and Representation: A New Methodological Approach to the History of Performance Art and Its Documentation

Between Evidence and Representation: A New Methodological Approach to the History of Performance Art and Its Documentation

Contemporary Theatre Review Volume 29, 2019 - Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2019.1657104 First coined in the United States, ‘performance art’ became during the 1970s a transnational term...

Visit PhD CANDIDATE, Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge

PhD CANDIDATE, Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge

Within the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge generously funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and situated in the Research Institute Materiality in...

Visit The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures - new anthology

The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures - new anthology

We are excited to announce the publication of a new anthology of essays, titled The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures. The book, co-edited by...

Visit Developing a strategy for the conservation of performance-based artworks at Tate (2019)

Developing a strategy for the conservation of performance-based artworks at Tate (2019)

Publication on the Strategy for the conservation of performance-based artworks at Tate. Attached to the article are templates used at Tate to document and preserve performance-based art in the...

Visit Videos from International Symposium “Collecting and Conserving Performance Art”

Videos from International Symposium “Collecting and Conserving Performance Art”

The German Association of Conservator-Restorers (VDR) is delighted to announce that, following the successful International Symposium „Collecting and Conserving Performance Art“, all presentations can...

Visit Interview with Barbis Ruder about "DOWN DOG IN LIMBO"

Interview with Barbis Ruder about "DOWN DOG IN LIMBO"

Artist interview with Barbis Ruder about her artwork “DOWN DOG IN LIMBO”, 2015 which comprises performance/ sculpture/installation/video/photograph, conducted at contemporary art conservation studio...

Visit Research publication - Performance at Tate: Into the Space of Art (2016)

Research publication - Performance at Tate: Into the Space of Art (2016)

In the 1960s performance was seen as fundamentally different from the sort of art that could be collected or shown within mainstream art museums. It was live, and its ephemerality challenged...

Visit PhD Research: Mapping Critical Mass: Authenticity in Remanifestations of Contemporary Art (Brian Castriota)

PhD Research: Mapping Critical Mass: Authenticity in Remanifestations of Contemporary Art (Brian Castriota)

Name Brian Castriota Title of research project / research interests Mapping Critical Mass: Authenticity in Remanifestations of Contemporary Art Type of research e.g. PhD or Postdoc PhD Affiliation(s)...

Visit Collecting Performance-Based Art: New Challenges and Shirting Perspectives (2014)

Collecting Performance-Based Art: New Challenges and Shirting Perspectives (2014)

INCCA members Pip Laurenson and Vivian van Saaze contributed a chapter in the book Performativity in the Gallery on Collecting Performance-Based Art. Full reference is: Laurenson, P. and Saaze, V. van...

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