Taylor, Joel;
Marcal, Helia;
(2022)
Conservation in the performative turn.
Studies in Conservation
, 67
(Sup 1)
pp. 260-266.
10.1080/00393630.2022.2067717.
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Abstract
Over the last century, conservation practice and discourse have undergone several turns. One of the most recent – the cultural turn – prompted discussions on the importance of values-led approaches, highlighting the inherently social nature of conservation. In this paper, we argue that conservation is now at the edge of a performative turn, emerging (also) from the field of critical heritage studies, which questions not only the uses (and users) of the past but also the ways in which cultural heritage is ultimately made through the actions of many agents. The performative turn in conservation comes with a set of reworked questions – not only about the aims and process of conservation itself, but also about ideas of what heritage is, for whom it is conserved, and practices of participation. This paper will focus specifically on how this performative turn revises current assumptions in practice, focusing on conservation risk assessments and how they are applied to contemporary art. We use contemporary art as the lens for this discussion, not as an exception but as the vantage point from which broader issues in conservation are more visible.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Conservation in the performative turn |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/00393630.2022.2067717 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2022.2067717 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Performative; risk assessment; values; contemporary art; ethics |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History of Art UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146573 |
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