Object--Event--Performance : art, materiality, and continuity since the 1960s

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York City : Bard Graduate Center, [2022], Chicago : University of Chicago Press, and ©2022

Subject:

Art - Conservation and restoration
Arts, Modern - 20th century
Art - Philosophy

Contributor:

Hölling, Hanna, editor, writer of supplementary textual content
Miller, Peter N., series editor
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, publisher

ISBN:

9781941792223 and 1941792227

Series:

Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world

Description:

xii, 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction. Object--event--performance / Hanna B. Hölling -- Introducing "Fluxus with tools" / Hanna B. Higgins -- Exhausting conservation : object, event, performance in Franz Erhard Walther's Werkstücke / Hanna B. Hölling -- Video art's past and present "future tense" : the case of Nam June Paik's satellite works / Gregory Zinman -- Resurrecting Hannah Wilke's Homage to a Large Red Lipstick / Andrea Gyorody -- Mutable and durable : the performance score after 1960 / Alison D'Amato -- Sometimes an onion, sometimes an artwork : Simone Forti and the choreographic logic of objects and institutions / Megan Metcalf -- In the viewshed : land (art) preservation and collective constituencies / Rebecca Uchill -- Enlivened pieces : Richard Tuttle at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975 / Susanne Neubauer -- The cheapness of writing paper and code : materiality, exhibiting and audiences after new media art / Beryl Graham -- The propensity toward openness : Bloch as object, event, and performance / Johannes M. Hedinger and Hanna B. Hölling

Summary:

Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on novel forms - such as installation, performance, event, video, film, earthwork, and intermedia works with interactive and networked components - that pose a new set of questions about what art actually is, both physically and conceptually. For conservators, this raises an existential challenge when considering what elements of these artworks can and should be preserved. This provocative volume revisits the traditional notions of conservation and museum collecting that developed over the centuries to suit a conception of art as static, fixed, and permanent objects. Conservators and museums increasingly struggle with issues of conservation for works created from the mid-twentieth to the twenty-first century that are unstable over time. The contributors ask what it means to conserve artworks that fundamentally address and embody the notion of change and, through this questioning, guide us to reevaluate the meaning of art, of objects, and of materiality itself. 'Object--Event--Performance' considers a selection of post-1960s artworks that have all been chosen for their instability, changeability, performance elements, and processes that pose questions about their relationship to conservation practices. This volume will be a welcome resource on contemporary conservation for art historians, scholars of dance and theater studies, curators, and conservators

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N6490 .O227 2022

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