BOOK LAUNCH: PERFORMANCE: THE ETHICS AND THE POLITICS OF CONSERVATION AND CARE, VOL.1, May 2, 2024

This recording from the book launch of Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, the first of two volumes resulting from the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, features presentations by several contributing authors: Rebecca Schneider, Pip Laurenson, Megan Metcalf & Cori Olighouse, Helia Marcal, Brian Castriota & Claire Walsh, and Eléonore Hellio & Michel Ekeba of the collective Kongo Astronauts. Introduction by the book’s editors, Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman and Emilie Magnin.

Published from Routledge, and available in hardcover and Open Access, Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, Vol. 1, focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seen through the lens of conservation, which has long been overlooked in the larger theoretical debates about whether and how performance remains.

Chapter authors: Pip Laurenson, Rebecca Schneider/Hanna Hölling, Gabriella Giannachi, Helia Marcal, Shadreck Chirikure, Iona Goldie-Scot, Brian Castriota/Claire Walsh, Farris Wahbeh, Cori Olinghouse/Megan Metcalf, Kelli Morgan, Kongo Astronauts (Eléonore Hellio/Michel Ekeba Entsantsa), Karolina Wilczyńska, Cauleen Smith, Erin Branningan, Luise Lawson, Dread Scott, Jacob Badcock, Valerian Maly. Editors: Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman and Emilie Magnin.

Available in hardcover and Open Access: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/o....