Keep It Moving? Conserving Kinetic Art
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Opening Remarks: The Kinetic Collection at the Museo del Novecento, Milan
Part 1. Keynotes
1. A Question of KinEthics
2. The Fluid Boundaries between Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Collecting, Conserving, and Staging Kinetic Art Installations
Part 2. Case Studies
3. Fast and Furious: Operation, Maintenance, and Repair of Chris Burden’s Metropolis II at LACMA
4. Conserving Thomas Wilfred’s Lumia Suite, Opus 158
5. Cybernetic Umbrella: A Case Study in Collaboration
6. Moving with the Times: The Refurbishment and Restoration of a Choreographed Robotic Arm
Part 3. Collections/Artists’ Oeuvres
7. Takis and the Fourth Dimension
8. Preserving Performativity: Conserving the Elusive in Aleksandar Srnec’s Artwork
9. Engineering a Solution: Latin American Light-Based Kinetic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
10. Intertwined Strategies for Conservation and Display of Kinetic Art: Case Studies in the European Neo-Avant-Garde
11. The Examination and Conservation of Thirteen Artworks by Jean Tinguely in the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Part 4. Theoretical Issues
12. The Hype about ZERO and Its Influence on the Conservation and Presentation of Early Kinetic Works
13. Kinetic Multiples: Between Industrial Vocation and Handcrafted Solutions
14. The Collection of Nicolas Schöffer: From the Artist’s Studio to the Museum
15. “Pretty Good for the 21st Century”: Restoration, Reconstruction, and Realization of Len Lye’s “Tangible Motion Sculpture”
Part 5. Posters
16. Conserving Mechanical Elements in Technological Artifacts: Three Case Studies from Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci,” Milan
17. Think Big! The Conservation of Ballerina Clown, a Kinetic Work of Art by Jonathan Borofsky
18. Conserving a Kinetic “Rotor”: Light Dynamo by Heinz Mack
19. Considering the Continuum of Care for Outdoor Kinetic Sculpture
20. Gianni Colombo’s Strutturazione cinevisuale abitabile: From Flickering to Light
21. Death of a moment: Management, Installation, and Maintenance of a Site-Specific Kinetic Sculpture
22. Future in Motion: Conservation Issues of Seven Kinetic Artworks by Dutch Artist Ray Staakman
23. The Conservation Ethics of and Strategies for Preserving and Exhibiting an Operational Car: The Motion and Standstill of Joost Conijn’s Hout Auto (Wood Car)
Contributors
Symposium Participants
Index of Videos
Bibliography