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Unravelling the complexities involved in the conservation of performance-based forms, Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge is a research project that aims to expose the theoretical and practical apparatuses of conservation, its attachment to traditional paradigms, and the resultant shortcomings in the sphere of the intangible. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF at the Bern University of the Arts.

  • vanishing points: Movement Research Fall Festival
  • Impossible Dance #2 (still life)
  • Embodied Scores: Methods of Archiving
  • Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge
  • Danspace Project’s Platform 2011: Body Madness
  • Practices for Slow Encounters: A Festival for Camera & Body
  • Structural Frames: How Collections Are Built
  • Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done
  • Archiving the Gesture
  • Desire Lines
  • Clown Therapy
  • Darkness Odyssey
  • Memory House
  • Embodiment: Practice as Research
  • Grandma performance tour
  • 2018 Next Wave Festival
  • Vault
  • Access as Creative Methodology
  • Gathering Space
  • Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, Transmission & Understanding Symposium
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Living Archives

Living Materials: Ethics and Principles for Embodied Stewardship

Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, and Autumn Knight

Bern University of the Arts

2021