Back to the Future!

The analogue slide technique is on the verge of extinction. From 2015 to 2018, the restorers at the Hamburger Kunsthalle thus conducted a research project dedicated to the urgent preservation of the medium and the forward-looking conservation of contemporary works. Supplemented with comparative curatorial and art-historical positions, this highly topical volume presents the results and research contributions and hence lays the foundations necessary for future restoration-related examination of medial, photographic, and slide-based artworks. Artists: Kunstler: ANT Farm, Robert Barry, Lothar Baumgarten, Matthew Buckingham, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Geert Goiris, Nan Goldin, Michaela Melian, Hilka Nordhausen, Anthony McCall, Otto Piene, Gerhard Ruhm, Ross Sinclair, Michael Snow, Ger van Elk, Tris Vonna-Michell. Text in English and German. Text by Tiziana Caianiello, Lenia Oliveira Fernandes, Claartje van Haaften, Martina Haidvogl, Brigitte Koelle, Francesco Leonelli, Katrin Pietsch, Barbara Sommermeyer, Tina Weidner, Babette Marie Werner