- Foreword
- Preface — Rachel Rivenc and Kendra Roth
- In the Unpredictable Garden of Forking Paths — Adrián Villar Rojas and Sebastián Villar Rojas
- Living Matter in Contemporary Art: Snapshots
- 01. 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
- 02. Can We Use the Concept of Programmed Obsolescence to Identify and Resolve Conservation Issues on Eat Art Installations? — Claudia María Coronado García
- 03. The Artist’s Body in the Age of Genomic Reproduction — Barbara Ursula Oettl
- 04. The Eternal Metabolic Network: Fluxus, Food, and Ecofeminism — Natilee Harren
- 05. Plump and Pliant: The Preservation of Bacterial Cellulose in Textile Bioart — Courtney Books
- 06. Some Survive, Few Are Conserved, Even Fewer Can Travel: Paradoxes and Obstacles in Maintaining and Staging Biomedia Art — Jens Hauser
- Working With the Artist: Between Conservation and Production
- 07. Preserving Mortality through a Sacrifice for Your Country: A Performance by Carlos Martiel and a Conservator’s Challenge — Flavia Perugini
- 08. 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
- 09. The Life-Death Movement of Fruits, Tubers, and Vegetables in Nydia Negromonte’s POSTA — Magali Melleu Sehn
- 10. Conservation/Restoration of Biological Material in Contemporary Art: A Perspective from Academia in Collaboration with Artists — Ana Lizeth Mata Delgado
- Living Matter: Challenging Institutions
- 11. Killing with Kindness? The Challenges of Conservation and Access for Living Matter — Marcia Reed
- 12. Flora and Fauna as Art: A Contemporary Art Conservation Approach to Living Systems — Sherry Phillips and Sjoukje van der Laan
- 13. Conserving Active Matter in Contemporary Design — Jessica Walthew and Sarah Barack
- 14. 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
- 15. When Installation Art Depends on Live Surroundings to Survive — Camilla Ayla Oliveira dos Anjos and Magali Melleu Sehn
- 16. Building Communities and Conserving Living Matter in the Collection of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City — Claudio Hernández
- Different Approaches and Responses
- 17. Stabbing Our Own House: A Biography of Joseph Beuys’s Wirtschaftswerte — Rebecca Heremans and Katrien Blanchaert
- 18. Pieces of the People We Love: Challenges in Caring for Works by Adrian Villar Rojas in the Moderna Museet Collection — Thérèse Lilliegren, Tora Hederus, My Bundgaard, Sara Norrehed, and Tom Sandström
- 19. Nature and Its Energy: Considerations on the Processes of Conserving Organic Matter — Mercedes Isabel de las Carreras
- 20. Conservation as an Enhancing Factor in the Interpretation of Living Materials Artworks — Flavia Parisi, Maura Favero, and Rosario Llamas Pacheco
- 21. 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
- Artists’ Reflections
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Symposium Participants
- About