Strategies Of Keeping It Live: Conservation Of Performance
Strategies Of Keeping It Live: Conservation Of Performance
The presentation focuses on the challenges of preserving and conserving performance-based artworks as they enter, live and evolve within a collection. Exploring how within conservation there needs to be a shift to protect and sustain our relationship with the unknown outcome and embrace this. Accepting that such artworks cannot be easily wrangled into our existing processes and that within conservation they are asking or pushing us to do something different. It will highlight the current work and how our conservation process has become a living and evolving one in response to the nature of these works and the challenges they present. There will be a focus on documentation, looking at how such works are currently documented and captured, touching on new modes of documentation as digital technologies develop.
‘Strategy and Glossary of Terms for the Documentation and Conservation of Performance’, published as part of Documentation and Conservation of Performance (March 2016 – March 2021), a Time-based Media Conservation project at Tate, https://www.tate.org.uk/about-us/projects/documentation-conservation-performance/strategy-and-glossary, accessed 13 September 2022.
