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Conserving performance, performing conservation

jeudi, 03. mars 2022 until samedi, 05. mars 2022

Call for papers: Conserving performance, performing conservation

90-minute session for the Annual Conference of the College Art Association
Date: March 3-5, 2022 (time and date of the panel TBD)
Location: Online
Deadline to submit: September 16

How can a work of performance – ephemeral, site- and time-sensitive, possibly tied to the body of the artist – be conserved? This question has long been answered by recourse to documentation and performance “relics,” the tangible, exhibitable and, above all, collectible remains of performances. Yet in the past decade, museums have begun to acquire live artworks and restage historical ones, lending urgency to the practical as well as theoretical problems of conserving works of art long considered too ephemeral to be conservable.

As contemporary art has grown more demanding, conservation has also grown as a discipline, developing new discourses and practices that both revise and expand the conservator’s role. No longer confined behind the scenes, conservators are now routinely asked to consult on acquisitions, direct complex installations, or even creatively partake in the reinstantiation of conceptual and performance works. Conservators accordingly have a new consciousness of their influence on the work of art and thus the course of art history.

This panel will examine performance as the object of conservation, seeking contributions from scholars, conservators, archivists, curators, artists, and others who address theoretical and practical questions related to the ongoing life of performance works in institutions and beyond, as well as explorations of the conservator’s role in bringing liveness into the museum.

Chairs: Hanna B. Hölling, University College London/Bern University of the Arts and Julia Pelta Feldman, Bern University of the Arts.

 

 

HOW TO SUBMIT

Please submit proposals to organizers Hanna Hölling and Julia Pelta Feldman at Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. by September 16.

Proposals must include:

1. Completed CAA proposal form: https://caa.confex.com/caa/f/CAA2022CFPProposalForm
2. A shortened CV (2 pages max).

 

 

CAA Key Dates:

  • By September 16, send proposals directly to session Chairs.
  • By September 23, CAA chairs will finalize their sessions, inform participants via email invitation, and add accepted presenters to their session entry. Upon acceptance, presenters *must join and or keep CAA memberships current through March 5* (you may apply with a non-member ID). Only members can be added to a Session.
Numéro
8/22
Statut
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Date de clôture
16.09.2021, 18:00
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