ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how live performance escapes the traditional museum’s temporality of storage and exhibition and resists the standard processes of musealization. It argues that performance ultimately calls for alternative models of care and stewardship. Case studies point toward new collective ways of owning and caring, but also underline the difficulties that hinder essential changes. Finally, to suggest how performance could be collectively cared for and could endure differently, this chapter will present the idea of mycelium as a distributed, resilient, and living system that survives and expands in various ways—much like performance itself.
