Preface: Report on a Research Project Acknowledgments Introduction: Conserving Active Matter and the ConservatorSoon Kai Poh Introduction: Conserving Active Matter and the HistorianPeter N. Miller1.    Philosophyone Introduction: Active Matter—Some Initial Philosophical ConsiderationsIvan Gaskell and A. W. Eatontwo The Expressive Import of Degradation and Decay in Contemporary ArtSherri Irvinthree The Look of Age: Appearance and RealityCarolyn Korsmeyerfour  The Aesthetics of RepairYuriko Saito  five Death and Entanglement: Some Thoughts about Life, Love, and the Aims of Art ConservationAlva Noë2.    Historysix Introduction: Conserving Active Matter and the Art Historian’s CraftIttai Weinrybseven Active Matter in Presocratic Thought?André Lakseight Active Matter: A Philosophical Aberration or a Very Old Belief?Guido Giglioninine Oak and Oil, Chalk and Flint—Rood Screens and ChurchesSpike Bucklowten  Bread and Wine, Body and BloodLee Palmer Wandel3.    Indigenous Ontologieseleven Introduction: For the Lives of Things—Indigenous Ontologies of Active MatterAaron Glasstwelve  Living Knowledge in Cultural CollectionsSven Haakansonthirteen The Orator’s Dilemma: Wampum as Material, Media, Medicine, and MemoryJamie Jacobs  fourteen Always Becoming Better Stewards: Caring for Collections at the National Museum of the American IndianKelly McHughfifteen Hoki Mauri: Bring Back the Life EssenceRose Evans4.    Materialssixteen Introduction: Developing Informed and Sustainable Responses to the Alteration of Cultural Artifacts; Materials Engineering Meets Material CultureJennifer L. Massseventeen Contextualizing the Installation of Tania Bruguera’s Untitled (Havana 2000)Chris McGlincheyeighteen Moving beyond the Binaries: Exploring the Active Matter of Metal Soaps in PaintFrancesca Casadionineteen Characterizing the Immaterial: Noninvasive Imaging and Analysis of Stephen Benton’s Engine no. 9Marc Walton, Pengxiao Hao, Marc Vermeulen, Florian Willomitzer, and Oliver Cossairttwenty Making Meiji Red: Semiotic Activity in the Colors of Japanese Woodblock Prints, 1864–1900Marco Leona and Henry D. Smith II Appendix: Events of the Research Project Conserving Active Matter Index Contributors  

"This book pursues conservation as an interdisciplinary endeavor, bringing together scholars of material culture, history, philosophy, Indigeneity, material scientists and conservators to take a stake in conservation, “together-apart,” borrowing from Karen Barad, in a mindful way and on a scale that is unprecedented to date."