Nu eller aldrig? : En studie av dokumenterandet och bevarandet av peformancekonst i svenska arkiv och museer.
Sammanfattning: This thesis aims to identify the methods and strategies used when documenting and preserving performance art, and how these methods and strategies are deployed in Swedish archives and museum collections. In extension, the thesis also raises more general questions surrounding both the historical biases involved in preserving and documenting intangible cultural heritage, as well as the practical challenges that exist around such collection management today. During the second half of the Twentieth century, performance art has emerged as an interdisciplinary art form based on the central idea that because it can only be experienced in the moment, it should not be recorded or preserved. The conflict between preserving the art form while still respecting its ephemerality is the leading theme throughout this thesis, a perspective which is examined through the lens of document theory. The study revolves around four different cultural heritage institutions, two archives and two museums, all government funded and located in Stockholm, Sweden. Qualitative research methodology was used and included analysis of performance related material held at the institutions as well as interviews with an archivist at each of the archives and a curator at each of the museums. Using document theory in relation to the specificity of performance art in combination with interviews at the cultural heritage institutions provided insight into the practical difficulties that the employees face with regards to this type of material. The primary finding of the study is that archives and collections lack adequate tools suited for classifying and cataloguing performance art, and that such tools should be developed in order to ensure that the art form does not become invisible within these systems. This is a two years master’s thesis in Archival Science.
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