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Contents
Foreword
Preface
Keynote: In the Unpredictable Garden of Forking Paths
Part One: 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 Two: 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 Three: 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 Four: 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 Five: 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 Símbolo descarnado
Bibliography
Contributors
Symposium Participants