{"id":61,"date":"2007-01-31T20:52:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T18:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genetologisch-onderzoek.nl\/?p=61"},"modified":"2023-12-31T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T12:41:50","slug":"national-history-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/61\/anthropology\/archaeologie\/","title":{"rendered":"National History Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul McCarthy and Raivo Puusemp<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Burial<\/em>, 2006<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.genetologisch-onderzoek.nl\/wp-content\/image_upload\/mccarthy.jpg' alt='mccarthy' \/><\/p>\n<p>Paul McCarthy, curating and working on a concept developed by Raivo Puusemp, buried a favorite sculpture of his own making on the grounds of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalis.nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naturalis<\/a>. The resulting work, Burial, reverses the process of unearthing practiced by paleontologists and archaeologists. McCarthy&#8217;s with Puusemp&#8217;s work was performed on the day of the exhibition opening and documented on film for display in the exhibition. The buried sculpture resides underground as an artifact for future discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The event, if we consider it in reverse, raises a number of questions for natural history museums. While specimens and objects are still buried, do they really exist? Before they&#8217;re dug up, do they have any value? When they are recovered, can some sort of price be placed on them? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul McCarthy and Raivo Puusemp Burial, 2006 Paul McCarthy, curating and working on a concept developed by Raivo Puusemp, buried a favorite sculpture of his own making on the grounds of the Naturalis. The resulting work, Burial, reverses the process of unearthing practiced by paleontologists and archaeologists. McCarthy&#8217;s with Puusemp&#8217;s work was performed on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}