Deep storage
Subtitle: collecting, storing, and archiving in art
By: edited by Ingrid Schaffner and Matthias Winzen ; with essays by Geoffrey Batchen ... [et al.] ; and contributions by Hubertus Gassner ... [et al.] ; initiated by the Siemens Cultural Program.
Contributors: Schaffner, Ingrid.; Winzen, Matthias.; Batchen, Geoffrey.; Gassner, Hubertus, 1950-; Siemens Kulturprogramm.; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.; Henry Art Gallery.
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Installations (Art) -- Exhibitions; Conceptual art -- Exhibitions; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Description: "This publication documents the importance of collecting and packaging, storing, and archiving as a contemporary artistic strategy. It lends surprising insight into the process of creating art, which itself is a result of collecting experiences and materials, by using the work of forty internationally celebrated artists as examples." "In Deep Storage, these archives of materials become works of art themselves. The documentation and exhibition of these extreme departures from conventional forms of collection and recollection is a stunning project in the avant-garde tradition." "In accordance with its subject matter, this book is organized like a storage file of information, in which the broad spectrum of artistic contributions and essays and texts by twenty-five authors is presented alphabetically."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [300]-[301]) and index.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, July 5-Aug. 30, 1998 and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Nov. 5, 1998-Jan. 31, 1999.