This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York (July to August 1998), and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (November 1998 to January 1999).

'Everybody collects something, sometime. Many artists have discovered collecting and saving as a means of artistic expression and have made the storage of objects and information the subject of their work. This ranges from digital memory and to rows and stacks of materials to shelves, packaging crates, installations, and entire areas filled with diverse objects stored systematically or in states of utter chaos.
This publication documents the importance of collecting and packaging, storing, and archiving as a contemporary artistic strategy. It lends surprising insight into the process of creating art, which itself is a result of collecting experiences and materials, by using the work of forty internationally celebrated artists as examples.
In Deep Storage, these archives of materials become works of art themselves. The documentation and exhibition of these extreme departures from conventional forms of collection and recollection is a stunning project in the avant-garde tradition.
In accordance with its subject matter, this book is organized like a storage file of information, in which the broad spectrum of artistic contributions and essays and texts by twenty-five authors is presented alphabetically.' - from book cover.

Only the artists with Asian backgrounds are listed below.

Access level

Onsite

practitioner

Geert LOVINK

publisher

Prestel Verlag (Munich, Germany)

editor

Ingrid SHAFFNER,

Matthias WINZEN

Location code

EXL.USA.DSC

Language