This essay discusses the exhibition of functional art, using ‘paraSITE’ (1998) by Michael Rakowitz as an example, through the concept of ethnographic object by anthropologist Joaquim Pais de Brito, and the concept of remain by curator Marie Brugerolle. I suggest that ethnography helps to understand the meaning(s) of ‘functional artworks’ in the context of museums.

Book title: Sustainable Art – Facing the Need for Regeneration, Responsibility and Relations
Editor: Anna Markowska
Authors: Dean Chatwin; Albert Coers; Joanna Filipczyk; Zoryana Hnetsko; Ewelina Jankowiak; Agnieszka Jankowska-Marzec; Eleonora Jedlińska; Irma Kozina; Natalia Krawczyk; Robert Kusek; Dorota Łagodzka; Nicole Loeser, Anna Markowska; Reiner Maria Matysik; Małgorzata Micuła; Jean-Francois Paquay; Filip Pręgowski; Sofia Ponte; Zofia Reznik; Joanna Zofia Rose; Mateusz Salwa; Patrycja Sikora; Natalia Smolyanskaya, Sue Spaid, Mikołaj Spodaryk, Lisa Paul Streitfeld, Wojciech Szymański, Esra Yıldız, Rebecca Liliane Wichmann; Daria Wartalska; Ewa Wojtowicz; Magdalena Worłowska.
Publisher: Polski Instytut Studiów nad Sztuką Świata
ISBN: 978-83-62737-89-5
315 Pages