Compared with simple media like paintings and sculptures, installations are hard to store and recreate, so how should artists and public institutions preserve them? Contemporary issues of this nature, involving the recording, storage and recreation of works, have begun to arise on the front line of contemporary art, in which increasingly diverse forms of expression are becoming commonplace.
By re-exhibiting I/O: Chamber of a Musical Composer, a masterpiece exhibited at the Yokohama Triennale 2014 (Yokohama Museum of Art) by Yuko Mohri, who creates moving installations of mechanical items, this project uses documentary footage, interviews with the artist, text, and drawings to record and produce the key points of the complex process of setting up and preserving the installation.
In addition, by holding a symposium to which we will invite technical staff and other specialists, as well as experts from adjacent disciplines such as architecture, we hope to provide an opportunity for a multifaceted exploration of methods of recording, storage and recreation.