Living matter : the preservation of biological materials in contemporary art

Author:: Living Matter (Conference) (2019 : Mexico City, Mexico), author
Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute, 2022, ©2022, and Chicago : University of Chicago Press ; London : Yale University Press
Subject:: Art, Modern - 20th century - Conservation and restoration - Congresses
Art, Modern - 21st century - Conservation and restoration - Congresses
Artists' materials - Deterioration - Congresses
Museum conservation methods - Congresses
Contributor:: Rivenc, Rachel, editor
Roth, Kendra, editor
Getty Conservation Institute, issuing body, organizer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, organizer
Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía "Prof. Manuel del Castillo Negrete" (Mexico), organizer
ISBN:: 9781606066874 and 1606066870
Description:: xii, 248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Notes:: Proceedings of the symposium "Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials Used in Contemporary Art / La Materia Viva: Conservación de materiales orgánicos en el arte contemporáneo" which took place June 3-5, 2019, in Mexico City and was co-organized by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and the Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía "Manuel del Castillo Negrete" (ENCRyM) of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references
Contents:: Keynote: In the Unpredictable Garden of Forking Paths / Adrián Villar Rojas and Sebastián Villar Rojas -- Biological Material Indeterminacy Rebukes the Social and the Artistic: Cases from the Documentary Archives of the Arkheia Documentation Center, Mexico / Eugenia Macías and Cristina Reyes -- Can We Use the Concept of Programmed Obsolescence to Identify and Resolve Conservation Issues on Eat Art Installations? / Claudia María Coronado García -- The Artist's Body in the Age of Genomic Reproduction / Barbara Ursula Oettl -- The Eternal Metabolic Network: Fluxus, Food, and Ecofeminism / Natilee Harren -- Plump and Pliant: The Preservation of Bacterial Cellulose in Textile Bioart / Courtney Books -- Some Survive, Few Are Conserved, Even Fewer Can Travel: Paradoxes and Obstacles in Maintaining and Staging Biomedia Art / Jens Hauser -- Preserving Mortality through a Sacrifice for Your Country: A Performance by Carlos Martiel and a Conservator's Challenge / Flavia Perugini -- 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 / Davison Chiwara -- The Life-Death Movement of Fruits, Tubers, and Vegetables in Nydia Negromonte's 'POSTA' / Magali Melleu Sehn -- Conservation/ Restoration of Biological Material in Contemporary Art: A Perspective from Academia in Collaboration with Artists / Ana Lizeth Mata Delgado -- Killing with Kindness?: The Challenges of Conservation and Access for Living Matter / Marcia Reed -- Flora and Fauna as Art: A Contemporary Art Conservation Approach to Living Systems [discusses exhibitions and artworks at the Art Gallery of Ontario that incorporate living beings such as animals] / Sherry Phillips and Sjoukje van der Laan -- Conserving Active Matter in Contemporary Design / Jessica Walthew and Sarah Barack -- Research, Conservation, and Exhibition of a Contemporary Art Installation Containing Living Organisms as Part of the Creative Process / Claudia Barra, Cristina Bausero, María Pía Cerdeiras, Silvana Alborés, Belén Estévez, and Soledad Martínez -- When Installation Art Depends on Live Surroundings to Survive / Camilla Ayla Oliveira dos Anjos and Magali Melleu Sehn -- Building Communities and Conserving Living Matter in the Collection of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City / Claudio Hernández -- Stabbing Our Own House: A Biography of Joseph Beuys's 'Wirtschaftswerte' / Rebecca Heremans and Katrien Blanchaert -- Pieces of the People We Love: Challenges in Caring for Works by Adrián Villar Rojas in the Moderna Museet Collection / Thérèse Lilliegren, Tora Hederus, My Bundgaard, Sara Norrehed, and Tom Sandström -- Nature and Its Energy: Considerations on the Processes of Conserving Organic Matter / Mercedes Isabel de las Carreras -- Conservation as an Enhancing Factor in the Interpretation of Living Materials Artworks / Flavia Parisi, Maura Favero, and Rosario Llamas Pacheco -- A Crumb(ling) Display: Conserving Bread in the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb / Mirta Pavić, Jasna Jablan, Ivana Bačić, and Harald Fitzek -- Living Matter: Research as Creative Process / Gabriel de la Mora -- 'Murmelte Instrumente': The Body, Like a Hand to an Instrument / Kelly Kleinschrodt -- Dissolving Matter: Notes on 'Símbolo Descarnado' / Darío Meléndez -- Symposium participants
Summary:: "This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the conservation of biological materials used in contemporary art"-- Provided by publisher
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: N8554.5 .L58 2019
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