Catalogue: It will seem a dream
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 124749644
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Leon, Spain
- Open access status
- -
- Month of first exhibition
- February
- Year of first exhibition
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This multi-component output consists of a solo exhibition and sole-authored book of 23 texts. The exhibition comprised a group of 23 multimedia works, including video works, slide works, sculpture, prints and typed pieces. The research involved the reconfiguration of a set of text-based works made by Cruz between 1997 and 2017. This process of excavating and re-presenting an extensive body of work was an extended, sustained and multidimensional technical and intellectual exercise that enabled Cruz to address research questions about ways in which artists might reinterpret and curate their own work.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Catalogue: It will seem a dream is the title of an exhibition project at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) Leon, Spain, 18 February – 4 June 2017.
The exhibition consisted of an installation (FIG. 1) and a book (FIGs. 2–3). The installation comprised 10 video works, 1 slide work,1 sculpture, 10 prints and 1 typed piece.The book was published by MUSAC and Occasional Papers in 2017.
The project addressed questions about ways in which artists might reinterpret and curate their own work. Situated within the context of contemporary practices that are not object based, the research questions the extent to which works made through such practices might be able to generate and be understood through several forms, thus challenging expectations, based in object based practice and to some extent museology and conservation, around the singularity and stability of the artwork. The research was also an investigation into impact and practical implications of the digital within conceptual art.
The exhibition was widely reviewed and the book was launched at an event at Matt’s Gallery 6 June 2017 and during the Artists’ Book Fair at Wiels, Brussels, 9 September 2017, in both cases with readings by Cruz.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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