Paik's Virtual Archive

Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-28890-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 837 g

In Paik’s Virtual Archive, Hanna B. Hölling contemplates the identity of multimedia artworks by reconsidering the role of conservation in our understanding of what the artwork is and how it functions within and beyond a specific historical moment. In Hölling’s discussion of works by Nam June Paik (1932–2006), the hugely influential Korean American artist who is considered the progenitor of video art, she explores the relation between the artworks’ concept and material, theories of musical performance and performativity, and the Bergsonian concept of duration, as well as the parts these elements play in the conceptualization of multimedia artworks. Hölling combines her astute assessment of artistic technologies with ideas from art theory, philosophy, and aesthetics to probe questions related to materials and materiality, not just in Paik’s work but in contemporary art in general. Ultimately, she proposes that the archive—the physical and virtual realm that encompasses all that is known about an artwork—is the foundation for the identity and continuity of every work of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holling, Hanna B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Restaurierung, Konservierung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Revisiting the Object

PART I. CONCEPT AND MATERIALITY

1. Two Works
2. Conceptual and Material Aspects of Media Art
3. Musical Roots of Performed and Performative Media

PART 2. TIME AND CHANGEABILITY

4. Zen for Film
5. Changeability and Multimedia Art
6. Time and Conservation
7. Heterotemporalities: Film Time, Video Time, and Paik Time

PART 3. ARCHIVE AND IDENTITY

8. The Material and the Immaterial Archive
9. Archival Implications
Conclusion: The Many Archai of Conservation and Curation

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hanna B. Hölling teaches material culture, cultures of conservation, and postwar art history at the Department of History of Art, University College London. She was previously Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor, Cultures of Conservation, at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. Her research has been supported by Terra Foundation for American Art, Getty Foundation Residential Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Dutch Research Council. Among her publications are Revisions—Zen for Film, and co-edited volume The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures.