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Performing Collections

Edited by Joanna Zielińska

Graphic Design: Fontarte / Artur Frankowski, Magdalena Frankowska

2022
ISBN 978-91-527-1341-9
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epub

Contents

  1. 1.
    Performing Collections
    Joanna Zielińska
  2. 2.
    What Does It Mean to Have Performance in the Collection?
    Joanna Zielińska, Bojana Kunst
  3. 3.
    Collecting Dance
    Lola Hinojosa, La Ribot
  4. 4.
    Enigmatic Debris
    Clémentine Deliss
  5. 5.
    Archiving Live Performance Art: The Case of Otobong Nkanga
    Lotte Bode
  6. 6.
    Some Things Last a Long Time: The Case of the ‘Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue’ by Joanna Rajkowska from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
    Zofia Czartoryska
  7. 7.
    Transfer of Responsibility and Knowledge
    Chantal Kleinmeulman
  8. 8.
    How to Describe What a Mirror Looks Like? On Pacquée’s ‘Madame’ and ‘It’
    Persis Bekkering
  9. 9.
    (Dis)Appearing Without a Trace: A Case Study of María Teresa Hincapié
    Claudia Segura
  10. 10.
    What a Museum Can (Not) Do: Performing Collective Methodologies with 'Circo Interior Bruto’
    Myriam Rubio
  11. 11.
    Variation on 'The Unaccounted: A Triptych' by Mapa Teatro
    José A. Sánchez
  12. 12.
    Fragments of a Co-op Festival
    Amira Akbıyıkoğlu
  13. 13.
    OHO – Between the Magic of Digitisation and Financial Literacy
    Igor Španjol
  14. 14.
    Glossary of terms
  15. 15.
    Biographies
  16. 16.
    Colophon

In recent decades, the visual arts have witnessed an unprecedented development of performative practices. This has brought about both a heated academic and institutional debate about the notion of performance and the phenomenon of performativity – in relation both to ways of presenting performance in the exhibition space and to the problem of creating museum collections made up of performance works. This publication gathers the results of the many years of research work of the collection curators and performance scholars associated with the museum confederation L’Internationale aiming to address the following question: why museums should collect performance?

The issue of how to collect performance is at the heart of this publication, organized in three parts: essays on the subject, case studies and a glossary.

Contributors: Amira Akbıyıkoğlu, Persis Bekkering, Lotte Bode, Zofia Czartoryska, Clémentine Deliss, Lola Hinojosa, Chantal Kleinmeulman, Bojana Kunst, Myriam Rubio José A. Sánchez, Claudia Segura, Igor Španjol, and Joanna Zielińska.