Recent innovation in performance and new media documentation has highlighted the importance of documenting the life trajectories of these works. For complex works such as The Floating Museum by Lynn Hershman Leeson this means considering the work as a hybrid assemblage made up of documents, records, and historical documentation, as well as their reworkings over time.
Translated in Italian by Vincenzo Sansone. Original paper: Gabriella Giannachi, Imagining the Future of a Complex Mixed-media Work: The Case of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s The Floating Museum, in «Stedelijk Studies Journal», n. 10, 2020. DOI: 10.54533/StedStud.vol010.art06. This contribution is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license.