Art History I / New Artistic Languages
Practice question · Sort into groups

Sort each practice by the historian's central problem with it.

Groups: The work is over and only documents remain · The work is reinterpreted each time it is set up · The environment the work runs in stops existing

Hints
  1. Each column is a different way the work fails to sit still.
  2. Anything about obsolete software belongs to the third.
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The work is over and only documents remain: 1970s performance, Small-audience action

The work is reinterpreted each time it is set up: Large installation, Viewer-entered space

The environment the work runs in stops existing: 2005 browser net art, Work on an obsolete OS

Why

The three columns need different responses: documentation protocols for the first, installation instructions and curatorial judgement for the second, and emulation or migration for the third. Conservation as cleaning and repair addresses none of them.

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