Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each practice to the conservation response it requires.
- Performance
- Installation
- Net art
- Land art
- Emulation or migration to a new environment
- Documentation protocols and testimony
- Instructions and curatorial judgement at each setup
- Recording a work that is expected to decay
Hints
- Each response answers a different way the work fails to persist.
- The practice expected to decay in place is land art.
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- Performance → Documentation protocols and testimony
- Installation → Instructions and curatorial judgement at each setup
- Net art → Emulation or migration to a new environment
- Land art → Recording a work that is expected to decay
Why
None of the four responses is conservation in the traditional sense of arresting change. Three accept that the work will not persist and concentrate on what should survive it; the fourth reproduces the work in a new environment, which is a form of continuation rather than preservation.
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