Founded by artist Elka Krajewska, the Salvage Art Institute provides a refuge for salvaged artwork while offering a platform for confronting the regulation of its financial, aesthetic and social value. At the core of No Longer Art is the first salvage art inventory gifted to the institute, a group of objects related primarily through their "total loss" status. These insured objects are officially considered devoid of value, and are no longer alive in terms of the market, gallery or museum system, despite being often still relatively intact. The survival of salvage art even past its total devaluation confronts our common understanding of where art ends, disturbing the distinction, organization, and separation of art from non-art.
Alongside the exhibition, the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery will host a roundtable discussion on 30 November, from 14:00 to 18:00, on salvage art and questions of damage and value with art historian Alexander Dumbadze, poet, novelist and critic Ben Lerner, architectural historian Andrew Herscher, artist Elka Krajewska, artist and art lawyer Sérgio Muñoz Sarmiento, anthropologist Michael Taussig, certified appraiser and valuation specialist Renee Vara, and GSAPP Director Of Exhibitions Mark Wasiuta.
Through 20 December 2012
No Longer Art: Salvage Art Institute
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)
1172 Amsterdam Avenue, New York