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Storage   (French Equivalent: Entreposage)

DefinitionThe most conservative collecting strategy "the default strategy for most museums" is to store a work physically. Storing one of Dan Flavin's fluorescent light installations simply means buying a supply of the out-of-production bulbs and putting them in a crate. The major disadvantage of storing obsolescent materials is that the artwork will expire once these ephemeral materials cease to function.

Variable Media Glossary. Depocas, A., Ippolito, J., and Jones, C. (eds) (2003). Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art Science and Technology
http://www.variablemedia.net/e/preserving/html/var_pub_index.html
 
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