“Performance, Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge”, our sister project at the Bern University of the Arts, has released a schedule preview for their concluding research festival and exhibition “Conserving Performance: Performing Conservation.” Currently in its final planning phase, the events will take place across Switzerland from September 14 to September 29, 2024. Mark your calendars and get ready to join the PCMK team this fall for exciting events in Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne, Aarau, and Bern!
Program Outline
For details, registration and to follow up on the changes to the program, please visit the festival’s website.
Saturday, September 14, 2024
YET TO COME: EXPERIMENTS IN CONSERVING PERFORMANCE / HKB Bern Academy of the Arts – exhibition opens
Sunday, September 15, 2024, 10:00 – 19:00
DAY 1: THE BODILY TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE, TANZHAUS ZURICH
Thursday, September 19, 2024, 6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m.
DAY 2: CONSERVING ABSENCE: FLORENCE JUNG IN CONVERSATION, Kunstmuseum, Aarau
Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
DAY 3: ARCHIVING AND DOCUMENTATION, ADC | Association pour la Danse Contemporaine, Geneva
Sunday, September 22, 2024, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
DAY 4: REVISITATIONS: Eszter Salamon, Dance for Nothing (Revisited, 2024), MCBA | Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne
Saturday, September 28, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
DAY 5: COLLECTING AND PRESERVING AS AN ACT OF CARE | Dampfzentrale Bern
Sunday, September 29, 2024
YET TO COME: EXPERIMENTS IN CONSERVING PERFORMANCE / HKB Bern Academy of the Arts – exhibition closes
Featured photograph: Sara Wookey performing Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A (1978). Courtesy Sara Wookey.
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