Symposium on conservation of contemporary art

International symposium Contemporary Art: Who Cares?
Research and practices in contemporary art conservation

International symposium for (up-and-coming) professionals, from
diverse disciplines, who are connected to the conservation of modern
and contemporary art. It is the successor of the leading symposium
in the nineties about this subject Modern Art: Who Cares?. The
symposium will take place in Amsterdam at the Royal Tropical
Institute (KIT) from 9-11 June 2010. A pre-symposium reception is on
the evening of 8 June 2019.

Contemporary Art: Who Cares? will feature plenary lectures as well
as a choice of circa ten parallel sessions per day; panel
discussions, workshops and behind-the-scenes tours. There will also
be time allocated to poster presentations and networking sessions.

The three-day programme is based upon three phases in the
'conservation continuum': different aspects of conservation that
take place during the 'lifespan' of an artwork. The point of
departure is the concept that conservation issues related to
contemporary art cannot be dealt with without considering the
relationship to artistic and museum practice.

Day 1: Artistic production and collection development

    Day one focuses on conservation in relation to the production of
    contemporary art as well as the transition process when a
    contemporary work of art enters a museum collection.

Day 2: Care and conservation

    The second day deals with conservation in a more familiar sense
    by looking to experience from practice and how theory is
    developed out of the restoration studio and collection
    management.

Day 3: Access, presentation and the public

    Day three will look at how contemporary art can be made
    accessible to the public and the role of conservators and
    conservation information in this process.

Tickets to the symposium cost Euro 290 for professionals and Euro
160 for students. Included in the price of the ticket is a copy of
the book Inside Installations (working title), which is due for
launch in March 2011.

For details and to register go to

    <URL:http://www.incca.org/contemporaryartwhocares>

Contemporary Art: Who Cares? is organised by the Netherlands
Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN), the Foundation for the
Conservation of Contemporary Art (SBMK) and  the University of
Amsterdam (UvA)

The symposium programme has been created in collaboration by a group
of experts from 35 organisations who are working together in the
INCCA affiliated European project PRACTICs (2009-2011).  Most of
these individuals worked together during the EU project Inside
Installations (2004-2007).

PRACTICs is an International Network for the Conservation of
Contemporary Art (INCCA) affiliated project and made possible with
the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union and the
Mondriaan Foundation.

Karen te Brake-Baldock
INCCA Coordinator
Instituut Collectie Nederland
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage
Ministerie van OCW
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
PO Box 76709
1070 KA
Amsterdam
+31 20 305 4715


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