Ephemeral Art and the Tyranny of Preservation

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Allyson Purpura, George Washington University

Performance and Documentation: (Re)Presenting Ana Mendieta

Beth Nardella, West Virginia University


Liminality, Memory, and the Ephemeral

Michele Brody, independent artist, New York


From Ruin to Rise: The Contradictions of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Building Fragments

Ellen Moody, Pomona College


Acquisition, Alteration, and Ambivalence: The Preservation of the Noah Purifoy Sculpture Park

Linda Lui, independent scholar, Alameda, California


Very Large Collections and Ephemeral Art: The Joseph Selle Collection of Street Vendor Photography

Andrew Eskind, Visual Studies Workshop; David Mount, Visual Studies Workshop


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