Non Conservation Laws is both an artistic and curatorial attempt to question temporality, emergence and obsolescence within production-distribution-consumption processes, in the context of globalization and network capitalism. It deals in particular with the question of consumption in art on different time scales, from the shortests to the longests, of the lifespans of artworks, their breakdown, their disappearances, their reincarnations... to intrication between observability and use, between sacred and profane. The projects aims at observing unidentified phenomenons located in a no man's land between perenity of the object and the ephemeral aspect of performance, between decay of the aura and its resurrection.

About the title: nature is ruled by conservation laws. They describe quantities which remain unchanged after some event happened in a close system. One speaks about conservation of the energy for instance. Are such conservation laws relevant when applied in the domain of artistic production, distribution or consumption processes? The title has therefore a double meaning: «conservation» also means here «artwork conservation».

Below you will find a few examples of artworks that have interesting behaviours, as far as their life expectancy is concerned.