Living matter : the preservation of biological materials in contemporary art /
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| Meeting name: | Living Matter (Conference) (2019 : Mexico City, Mexico), author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute, 2022. ©2022 |
| Description: | xii, 248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12742111 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Keynote: In the Unpredictable Garden of Forking Paths
- Part 1. Living Matter in Contemporary Art: Snapshots
- 1. Biological Material Indeterminacy Rebukes the Social and the Artistic: Cases from the Documentary Archives of the Arkheia Documentation Center, Mexico
- 2. Can We Use the Concept of Programmed Obsolescence to Identify and Resolve Conservation Issues on Eat Art Installations?
- 3. The Artist's Body in the Age of Genomic Reproduction
- 4. The Eternal Metabolic Network: Fluxus, Food, and Ecofeminism
- 5. Plump and Pliant: The Preservation of Bacterial Cellulose in Textile Bioart
- 6. Some Survive, Few Are Conserved, Even Fewer Can Travel: Paradoxes and Obstacles in Maintaining and Staging Biomedia Art
- Part 2. Working with the Artist: Between Conservation and Production
- 7. Preserving Mortality through a Sacrifice for Your Country: A Performance by Carlos Martiel and a Conservator's Challenge
- 8. Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Innovation in the Exhibition of Living Matter at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe: The Case of the Planetary Community Chicken Exhibition
- 9. The Life-Death Movement of Fruits, Tubers, and Vegetables in Nydia Negromonte's POSTA
- 10. Conservation/Restoration of Biological Material in Contemporary Art: A Perspective from Academia in Collaboration with Artists
- Part 3. Living Matter: Challenging Institutions
- 11. Killing with Kindness? The Challenges of Conservation and Access for Living Matter
- 12. Flora and Fauna as Art: A Contemporary Art Conservation Approach to Living Systems
- 13. Conserving Active Matter in Contemporary Design
- 14. Research, Conservation, and Exhibition of a Contemporary Art Installation Containing Living Organisms as Part of the Creative Process
- 15. When Installation Art Depends on Live Surroundings to Survive
- 16. Building Communities and Conserving Living Matter in the Collection of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City
- Part 4. Different Approaches and Responses
- 17. Stabbing Our Own House: A Biography of Joseph Beuys's Wirtschaftswerte
- 18. Pieces of the People We Love: Challenges in Caring for Works by Adrián Villar Rojas in the Moderna Museet Collection
- 19. Nature and Its Energy: Considerations on the Processes of Conserving Organic Matter
- 20. Conservation as an Enhancing Factor in the Interpretation of Living Materials Artworks
- 21. A Crumb(ling) Display: Conserving Bread in the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
- Part 5. Artists' Reflections
- 22. Living Matter: Research as Creative Process
- 23. Murmelte Instrumente: The Body, Like a Hand to an Instrument
- 24. Dissolving Matter: Notes on Simbolo descarnado
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Symposium Participants
