Hanna B. Hölling is Research Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences-Academy of the Arts and Honorary Fellow, Department of History of Art, University College London.

Jules Pelta Feldman is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Bern University of Applied Sciences- Academy of the Arts.

Emilie Magnin is a Doctoral Candidate at Bern University/ University of Applied Sciences-Academy of the Arts and a Conservator for Media Art and Installations at the Kunstmuseum Bern.

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List of contributors

Introduction: Caring for performance
HANNA B. HÖLLING, JULES PELTA FELDMAN AND EMILIE MAGNIN

PART I
Care: Theoretical entanglements

1 Charisma and desire in the conservation of performance art
PIP LAURENSON

2 Not, yet: When our art is in our hands
REBECCA SCHNEIDER AND HANNA B. HÖLLING

3 Vitality and the conservation of performance
HÉLIA MARÇAL

4 Conserving the un-conservable: Documenting environmental performance for the twenty-first century
GABRIELLA GIANNACHI

5 Innovation and preservation: Shadreck Chirikure on the performance of heritage-A conversation with Hanna B. Hölling

PART II
The politics and institutions of care

6 An experimental acquisition: Ralph Lemon's Scaffold Room (2014)
at the Walker
IONA GOLDIE-SCOT

7 In the shadow of the state: Collecting performance at IMMA and
institutions of care in the Irish context
BRIAN CASTRIOTA AND CLAIRE WALSH

8 Towards a performance continuum: Archival strategies for
performance-based artworks
FARRIS WAHBEH

9 Peeling the paint off the walls: Kelli Morgan on Black performance
and racial justice in Western Institutions
HANNA B. HOLLING, JULES PELTA FELDMAN AND EMILIE MAGNIN

10 Performing the "Mask": Kongo Astronauts (Eléonore Hellio and
Michel Ekeba) on postcolonial entanglements
HANNA B. HOLLING, EMILIE MAGNIN, VALERIAN MALY AND JACOB BADCOCK

PART III
Living conservation

11 Knowledge has to live: Dread Scott on Slave Rebellion
Reenactment (2019)
JULES PELTA FELDMAN

12 Conserving a performance about conservation: Care and
preservation in Mierle Laderman Ukeles's maintenance art
KAROLINA WILCZYN¿ SKA

13 Living materials: Ethics and principles for embodied stewardship
CORI OLINGHOUSE AND MEGAN METCALF

14 Precarious movements: Contemporary dance as contemporary art
ERIN BRANNIGAN AND LOUISE LAWSON

15 Potential afterlives: Cauleen Smith on the relation of film to
performance
HANNA B. HÖLLING AND JULES PELTA FELDMAN

Index