Site Title: Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art (An International Conference Held in Mexico City, June 3–5, 2019)

Edited by Rachel Rivenc and Kendra Roth

Table of Contents

  • Contents 
  • Foreword 
  • Preface 
  • In the Unpredictable Garden of Forking Paths 
  • Living Matter in Contemporary Art 
    • 01. Biological Material Indeterminacy Rebukes the Social and the Artistic 
    • 02. Can We Use the Concept of Programmed Obsolescence to Identify and Resolve Conservation Issues on Eat Art Installations? 
    • 03. The Artist’s Body in the Age of Genomic Reproduction 
    • 04. The Eternal Metabolic Network 
    • 05. Plump and Pliant 
    • 06. Some Survive, Few Are Conserved, Even Fewer Can Travel 
  • Working With the Artist 
    • 07. Preserving Mortality through a Sacrifice for Your Country 
    • 08. Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Innovation in the Exhibition of Living Matter at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe 
    • 09. The Life-Death Movement of Fruits, Tubers, and Vegetables in Nydia Negromonte’s POSTA 
    • 10. Conservation/Restoration of Biological Material in Contemporary Art 
  • Living Matter 
    • 11. Killing with Kindness? 
    • 12. Flora and Fauna as Art 
    • 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 
  • Different Approaches and Responses 
    • 17. Stabbing Our Own House 
    • 18. Pieces of the People We Love 
    • 19. Nature and Its Energy 
    • 20. Conservation as an Enhancing Factor in the Interpretation of Living Materials Artworks 
    • 21. A Crumb(ling) Display 
  • Artists’ Reflections 
    • 22. Living Matter: Research as Creative Process 
    • 23. Murmelte Instrumente 
    • 24. Dissolving Matter 
  • Bibliography 
  • Contributors 
  • Symposium Participants 
  • About 
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Chicago “Foreword.” In Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art (An International Conference Held in Mexico City, June 3–5, 2019), by Rachel Rivenc and Kendra Roth. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2019. /foreword/.
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