Marta Jecu – författare

This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections. It begins by examining the influence of conceptual art within art museums and the transformative impact it has had on museology. Specifically, it highlights how conceptual art's institutional critique, initially rooted in the art world, has been adopted and adapted by other areas of museology.The contributions collected in this volume span various timelines: they consider historic conceptualism and its influence in the art or ethnographic museum; recent North-South/ East-West de-colonial practices, with a focus on practices developed on the African continent; post-digital conceptual practices that are problematising heritage and locality; and performative and activist conceptual practices. At the same time, some of the contributions gathered in this volume express a timely critique of artistic interventions in museums, which turn out to be formal solutions that maintain a hegemonic vision on history. The chapters examine conceptual art in the development of new solutions for socially engaged and decolonizing museological practices. The first part considers artistic actions conceived as a response to the history of art and the art institution, and explores their intended repercussions in social space and other branches of museology. The second part shifts the perspective from the art museum to ethnology, history and natural history museums. The final part explores an emerging vision of the museum as a socially and ecologically just, virtual, or concrete space of action and discourse, advocating its affinity with recent innovative trans-disciplinary, post conceptual and performative art practices.The book will be of interest to scholars working in contemporary art and practice, art history, museum studies, and heritage studies.

Architecture and the Virtual is a study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists, working with the tools of our post-digital age. The book maps the convergence of virtual space and contemporary conceptual art and is an anthropological exploration of artists who deal with transformable space and work through analogue means of image production. Marta Jecu builds her inquiry around interviews with artists and curators in order to explore how these works create the experience of the virtual in architecture. Performativity and neo-conceptualism play important roles in this process and in the efficiency with which these works act in the social space.

Architecture and the Virtual is a study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists, working with the tools of our post-digital age. The book maps the convergence of virtual space and contemporary conceptual art and is an anthropological exploration of artists who deal with transformable space and work through analogue means of image production. Marta Jecu builds her inquiry around interviews with artists and curators in order to explore how these works create the experience of the virtual in architecture. Performativity and neo-conceptualism play important roles in this process and in the efficiency with which these works act in the social space.

From a physical point of view, stone is the oldest and most persistent material and support of information in the history of humanity. This volume of collected essays, theoretical articles, case-studies, artistic texts and artwork portfolios aims to open a field of thought in which stone is not questioned as a materia prima of artistic work, but rather as a carrier of information.Stone explores stone as more than a material, presenting it as a carrier of meaning and information across cultures and historical periods. It examines how contemporary artists decode, interpret, and creatively engage with stone, blending artistic practice, cultural studies, and experimental approaches. Highlighting the intersections between art and anthropology, contributions consider how human interaction with natural materials has evolved over time. It investigates the dynamic, almost living presence of stone in art, illuminating the rich interpretive potential of natural materials and the ways our current era reimagines and engages with them.