Brooklynbased interdisciplinary artist Jeanine Oleson born 1974 created a 2017 exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles presenting her ongoing sharply absurdist response to research on the ways copper is produced and used in 21stcentury capitalism.Through a video installation objects and a performanceincluding a copperbased instrument that reacted to human touch and a handwoven rug based on perspectives visible in threedimensional modelingthe exhibition focused on the confused entwinement of the human into contemporary material as well as the relation with representation and art when these activities are now more often than not mediated through the digitalfor which copper is an essential material component. With humor pathos and intellectual rigor Oleson explores issues of labor the environment craft and performance.Conduct Matters features an introduction by Connie Butler chief curator at the Hammer Museum and texts by cultural historian Jaleh Mansoor and legal scholar KSue Park along with the full script of Olesons video.