Transitional Media: Duration, Recursion, and the Paradigm of Conservation

Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2016). Transitional Media: Duration, Recursion, and the Paradigm of Conservation Studies in Conservation, 61(sup2), pp. 79-83. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/00393630.2016.1181929

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Fostering conservation as a discursive and contextual practice, this essay examines transitional media that necessitate new ways of thinking about continuity. It looks at two examples of artworks with the objective of unraveling the varying modes of their transition. An event score, event-performance, object, and film drawn from the artistic legacies of George Brecht and Nam June Paik illustrate that ideas of permanence and impermanence are linked with an understanding of artworks in time and duration. While conservation reveals itself as an intervention in the temporal dimension of artworks, the theories of duration allow us to better understand the reciprocal relations between materials and meanings. In doing so, these theories acknowledge and attempt to make sense of the performative materiality of these works.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture > Contemporary Art and Media
Name:	Hölling, Hanna Barbara0000-0002-3063-4405
Subjects:	A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
ISSN:	0039-3630
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Language:	English
Submitter:	Hanna Barbara Hölling
Date Deposited:	12 Sep 2023 15:27
Last Modified:	12 Sep 2023 15:27
Publisher DOI:	10.1080/00393630.2016.1181929
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Change, conservation theory, continuity, duration, event, time, transition, recursion
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.19856
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19856