The spring 2016 edition of VoCA Journal launches with a series of articles that address topics including the potential of “hyper-regional” practices, the potential pitfalls of oral histories, somatic memory triggered by artists’ materials, and the reconstruction of historical artworks as a preservation strategy. In this issue, Lucy Bradnock (Assistant Professor of History of Art at the University of Nottingham) speaks with Rachel Rivenc (Associate Scientist with the Modern and Contemporary Art Research Initiative at the Getty Conservation Institute) about many of the topics that surface in Rivenc’s new book, Made in Los Angeles: Materials, Processes, and the Birth of West Coast Minimalism; artists Chris Kallmyer and Jonathan Allen consider the relative merits of artist residency programs that offer solitude versus others that focus on social participation; Ariel Plotek (Associate Curator of Modern Art at the San Diego Museum of Art) delights in the “tension between arid fields of pigment and sumptuous cascades of gold, silver, and platinum” he discovers in Nancy Lorenz‘s paintings; and Journal editor and VoCA board member Robin Clark interviews independent art historian Marina Pugliese about the collaborative research model she is using to produce a major exhibition of Lucio Fontana’s light environments.
VoCA Journal is a digital information-sharing platform for artists and their collaborators. Our contributors—including fabricators, curators, conservators, registrars, art handlers, collectors, gallerists, and those responsible for artist estates and foundations—are invited to discuss innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches to the research, display, and conservation of contemporary art. Published three times yearly (fall, winter, and spring), VoCA Journal highlights and archives progressive artist-centered projects, thereby creating a dynamic repository for these initiatives while also connecting members of our network both locally and across the globe.
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VoCA Journal—spring 2016
“Made in Los Angeles,” Lucy Bradnock and Rachel Rivenc
“Reset the Work,” Jonathan Allen and Chris Kallmyer
“Between Materiality and Immateriality,” Robin Clark and Marina Pugliese
“All That Glitters, Ariel Plotek” and Nancy Lorenz
