Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation Research festival and exhibition

This research festival and exhibition is dedicated to bringing the outcomes of four years of research Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge (Swiss National Science Foundation, 2020 – 2024) to a wider audience. The festival will take place in established visual arts, dance and performances institutions across Switzerland. Three full days of interactive, thematic workshops, demonstrations and discussions and two artist events will be accompanied by an exhibition at the HKB that probes, in an experimental way, the ongoingness of performance in a deep time of conservation.

Program

Exhibition

Sat, 14 – Sun, September 29
Yet To Come: Experiments in Reverse-Engineering and Conserving Performance
Location: Bern Academy of the Arts, Directors Hall, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern

A curatorial walk-through the exhibition:
Tue, September 17, 5pm – 6pm
Wed, September 25, 5pm – 6pm

Day 1

Sun, September 15, 10am – 7pm
The Bodily Transmission of Knowledge
Speakers: Sara Wookey, Megan Metcalf, Peter Pleyer, Anna Huber, Catja Loepfe, Declan Whitaker, Hanna Hölling, Joanna Leśnierowska, Andrej Mirčev and others.
Location: Tanzhaus Zürich, Bühne 2, Wasserwerkstrasse 129, 8037 Zürich

Day 2

Thu, September 19, 6pm – 7.30pm
Conserving Absence: Florence Jung in Conversation
Florence Jung in conversation with Hanna B. Hölling, Emilie Magnin and Simona Ciuccio.
Location: Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargauerplatz, 5001 Aarau

Day 3

Sat, September 21, 10am – 7pm
Archiving and Documentation
Speakers: Cori Olinghouse, Thomas Plischke, Eszter Salamon, Rachel Mader, Joanna Leśnierowska and others.
Film screenings: Eszter Salamon, Reappearance (2022) and Sommerspiele (2023).
Location: ADC, Maison des arts du Grütli, Rue du Général-Dufour 16, 1204 Genève

Day 4

Sun, September 22, 4pm – 5.30pm
Revisitations: Eszter Salamon, Dance for Nothing (Revisited, 2024)
Performance followed by a discussion with the artist.
Location: MCBA I Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Plateforme 10, Place de la Gare 16, 1003 Lausanne

Day 5

Sat, September 28, 10am – 7pm
Collecting and Preserving as an Act of Care
Speakers: Saša Asentić, Nina Mühlemann, Rebecca Gordon, Muda Mathis, Andrea Saemann, Dorothea Rust, Chris Regn, Gisela Hochuli, Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Tabea Lurk, Julia Asperska and others.
Location: Dampfzentrale Bern, Marzilistrasse 47, 3005 Bern

The research festival and exhibition are organized by the research team of the SNSF-project «Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge»
Hanna B. Hölling, Joanna Leśnierowska, Andrej Mirčev, Charles Wrapner and Emilie Magnin.