Performance

<p>This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seen<br>through the lens of conservation which has long been overlooked in the larger<br>theoretical debates about whether and how performance remains.</p><p>Unraveling the complexities involved in the conservation of performance<br><i>Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care </i>(vol. 1)<br>brings this new understanding to bear in examining performance as an object of<br>study experience acquisition and care. In so doing it presents both theoretical<br>frameworks and functional paradigms for thinking about—and enacting—the<br>conservation of performance. Further while the conservation of performance is<br>undertheorized performance is nevertheless increasingly entering the art<br>market and the museum meaning that there is an urgent need for discourse on<br>how to care for these works long-term. In recent years a few pioneering conservators<br>curators and scholars have begun to create frameworks for the longterm<br>care of performance. This volume presents explicates and contextualizes<br>their work so that a larger discourse can commence. It will thus serve the needs<br>of conservation students and professors for whom literature on this subject is<br>sorely needed.</p><p>This interdisciplinary book thus implements a novel rethinking of performance<br>that will challenge and revitalize its conception in many fields such as art history<br>theater performance studies heritage studies and anthropology.</p>