Two Questions: Flaminia Fortunato

Flaminia Fortunato serves as the Stedelijk Museum’s time-based media art conservator.

Interview by Emilie Magnin.

Artworks mentioned in the interview:

Yvonne Rainer, Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2020 (a Performa commission in collaboration with Emily Coates).
Alexis Blake, rock to jolt [ ] stagger to ash, 2021.
Michele Rizzo, HIGHER xtn, 2018.

About the "Two Questions" series: In this series of brief interviews, the research team of “Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge” poses two fundamental questions to a variety of experts who work with, in, and on performance art and conservation:

1) Can performance be conserved? If so, how? If not, why not?
2) What does it mean to conserve performance?

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