- Foreword — Timothy P. Whalen
- Preface — Rachel Rivenc and Kendra Roth
- Keynote: In the Unpredictable Garden of Forking Paths — Adrián Villar Rojas and Sebastián Villar Rojas
- 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
Eugenia Macías and Cristina Reyes - 2. Can We Use the Concept of Programmed Obsolescence to Identify and Resolve Conservation Issues on Eat Art Installations?
Claudia María Coronado García - 3. The Artist’s Body in the Age of Genomic Reproduction
Barbara Ursula Oettl - 4. The Eternal Metabolic Network: Fluxus, Food, and Ecofeminism
Natilee Harren - 5. Plump and Pliant: The Preservation of Bacterial Cellulose in Textile Bioart
Courtney Books - 6. Some Survive, Few Are Conserved, Even Fewer Can Travel: Paradoxes and Obstacles in Maintaining and Staging Biomedia Art
Jens Hauser
- 1. Biological Material Indeterminacy Rebukes the Social and the Artistic: Cases from the Documentary Archives of the Arkheia Documentation Center, Mexico
- 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
Flavia Perugini - 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
Davison Chiwara - 9. 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
- 7. Preserving Mortality through a Sacrifice for Your Country: A Performance by Carlos Martiel and a Conservator’s Challenge
- Part Three: 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
- 11. Killing with Kindness? The Challenges of Conservation and Access for Living Matter
- Part Four: 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 Adrián 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
- 17. Stabbing Our Own House: A Biography of Joseph Beuys’s Wirtschaftswerte
- Part Five: Artists’ Reflections
- 22. Living Matter: Research as Creative Process
Gabriel de la Mora - 23. Murmelte Instrumente: The Body, Like a Hand to an Instrument
Kelly Kleinschrodt - 24. Dissolving Matter: Notes on Símbolo descarnado
Darío Meléndez
- 22. Living Matter: Research as Creative Process
- Bibliography
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