#3 LIMINAL BOOK

SYMBIOSIS

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What is LIMINAL 3?

LIMINAL 3 is the third volume in the Liminal editorial series: a curatorial and research-driven book exploring threshold zones between heritage and the future, material and immaterial culture, classical structure and contemporary practice, and the physical artwork and its digital extension. It is designed as a hybrid publication that combines critical writing, curatorial narrative, and documentary apparatus to make a coherent body of work legible, transmissible, and durable over time.

Purpose

LIMINAL 3 provides an actionable framework to:

  • define artistic heritage as an integrated system of tangible and intangible cultural assets;

  • formalize a curatorial methodology rooted in critical, historical, and strategic responsibility;

  • position the digital as an advanced heritage infrastructure that extends the work’s documentary and relational functions (rather than replacing the physical artwork);

  • strengthen long-term legibility, continuity, and validation of a collection or program.

Core thesis

The book argues that cultural durability depends on the ability to:

  1. organize artworks within a recognizable genealogy;

  2. generate meaningful relations across works, contexts, and historical resonances;

  3. ensure coherence, readability, and permanence of the overall corpus;

  4. integrate digital systems as infrastructures for documentation, access, traceability, and transmission.

Key themes

  • curatorial responsibility and cultural governance

  • time as a structuring principle (beyond chronology)

  • classical frameworks as normative structure (not decorative quotation)

  • tangible/intangible heritage and collection architectures

  • documentation, archiving, legitimacy over time

  • digital heritage infrastructure, relational context, interpretive stability

  • research-led curating and methodology

Editorial structure

LIMINAL 3 is organized as an editorial ecosystem comprising:

  • critical and curatorial essays (theoretical frame and method)

  • research sections (concepts, criteria, taxonomies)

  • documentary apparatus (references, notes, contextual anchors)

  • visual materials (works, details, environments, archival traces)
    to support both public communication and institutional/academic use.

Who it is for

  • museums, foundations, archives, cultural institutions

  • collectors, advisors, and heritage stakeholders

  • curators, researchers, editors, students

  • technology partners engaged in documentation, archival systems, and cultural valuation

Research Abstract

LIMINAL 3 is a curatorial and research volume that frames artistic heritage as an integrated system of tangible and intangible cultural assets, sustained through critical, historical, and strategic responsibility. It proposes time as a structuring principle through which artworks gain status, continuity, and placement within a coherent genealogy. The book positions classicism as a normative matrix that guarantees coherence, readability, and permanence across a collection. In parallel, it articulates a view of the digital as an advanced heritage infrastructure—designed not to replace the physical artwork, but to extend its documentary and relational functions—supporting long-term transmission, access, and interpretive stability.