"As we came to the spring of 2012, we understood that we had a work of art, and the forces that represent the artistic and cultural integrity of the project are concerned about preserving that work.
In contrast to Morris' group, Tharp's groundwork, at the moment, lies more in her work than her actual infrastructure--and questions of archiving and preserving that work are prominent in her mind.
"In Fred Astaire movies, everything was Art Deco and everyone was dancing -- and they didn't give a thought to the Depression". But preserving that pristine past takes hard work, and not all of the theaters on the tour had received the necessary elbow grease.
Yet even when software dependency is the only restriction, further ethical quandaries can easily arise: While Siebren Versteeg's Untitled Film II, which he created in Macromedia Director with Lingo, could probably be recreated with a contemporary language that preserves the work's look and feel, "that would be eliminating the trace of the artist's hand," cautions Phillips.
Ellen Percy Kraly, a demographer and professor of geography at Colgate, said of the choice, "We had to develop a relationship with an institution that would preserve the work forever".
My initial impression is that this preserves the things that work about the Dots formula without feeling like a complete retread.
Well, clearly the answer's that we want to preserve the works so that as many people as possible can experience them.
The elites in this and other wealthy countries control the global decision making powers which uphold and preserve the system that works in their favor.
Quotations that were chosen to illustrate the sublime and its opposite occasionally also preserve work that would otherwise now be lost e.g., one of Sappho's odes.
The great resources of the rich nations have been used instead to preserve work that isn't a patch on it.
