Epis. 317: museums Invisible Labor, and how exhibition rooms are suspensions of common sense- Fernando Dominguez Rubio, part 3
with Fernando Dom\xednguez Rubio, author of Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum, he talks about: Storage- how much it takes to maintain it; how museum curators put the longevity of artworks in the context of geological time, when thinking about \u2018eternity,\u2019 and how exhibition rooms in museums are effectively ICUs for the art- conditions must be monitored and controlled carefully, because humans, just by their organic natures, are an immediate threat to artworks\u2019 longevity; how exhibition rooms in museums are highly mediated spaces by exhibition designers to control viewers\u2019 experiences; the complex logistics and mimeographic labor that goes into the maintenance of artworks within the museum- where and whether they get loaned, get exhibited, etc.; Fernando\u2019s own experience of violence when he first encountered contemporary art, because, as is the case for most individuals, he didn\u2019t have the grammar for reading the exhibition room; how his working class background, and change in classes as an adult, has informed his focus on the invisible labor at the museum, as opposed to its \u2018celebrities;\u2019 and how exhibition spaces have been \u201cconquered for a suspension of common sense.\u201d\xa0