On the occasion of the closing weekend of Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials, the Hammer Museum at UCLA presents a symposium featuring talks by artists, curators, museum professionals, and scholars. The program is co-presented with the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

The symposium critically examines the bond between the ontological dimension of the art object and the use of mineral and organic materials emerging from Brown and Indigenous worlds. These conversations focus on key questions raised by the exhibition, underscoring how the notion of living materials can recast museological practices while challenging the practice of ownership within art collections and questioning established conservation and display protocols.

Artist Rose B. Simpson kicks off the program with her keynote presentation, followed by a panel discussion between artist Carmen Argote, Idurre Alonso, Head of Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute, and Sylvia Forni, Fowler Museum director, moderated by exhibition curator Pablo José Ramírez.