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Contemporary art, museum and archive: challenges of information science

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Author(s):
Bruno César Rodrigues
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Giulia Crippa; Marco Antonio de Almeida; Carlos Alberto Ávila Araujo; Maria Cristina Machado Freire; Camilo de Mello Vasconcellos
Advisor: Giulia Crippa
Abstract

This research treat about museums and we reflect on some museological processes, but based on Information Science and Documentation. Therefore, we analyze from our point of view the existing implications between the concepts of document and information, which are often distinct or even contradictory, and the contemporary art, that is ephemeral or dematerializes. There is a bond loss of the contemporary work of art with the traditional support that causes direct effects in its classification, which affects the custody systems of the institutions. It has become usual for some of the works to be perishable and even have a demarcated life cycle. Others remain \"alive\" in institutions that have preserved them, either because they have a traditional format of painting or sculpture, because their formats are similar to them, because they are objects which are possible to be stored and later re-presented, or because they persist through documentation. Thus, we try to understand how museums do to guard, organize, and preserve the memory of ephemeral works of art. We realized that they end up not fitting very well in the traditional definition and that they move towards other situations and other typologies, because there is an artistic production focused on the archives and not on the museum. Just as ephemeral works of art and their documentary condition affect artistic debates, they also incite museums and archives to rethink their modus operandis. We conclude that, in order to solve the problems addressed in this research, it is necessary to focus on a solution that comes from the junction of the superimposed knowledge of Museology and Archivology, and this is the proposal of CI. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 13/04951-0 - Guard and organization of object/document/information of contemporary art under the different perspectives of Information Science
Grantee:Bruno Cesar Rodrigues
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate