New book: Inside Installations

Inside Installations: Theory and Practice in the Care of Complex
    Artworks
Edited by Tatja Scholte and Glenn Wharton

Anything is possible in installation art. The typically short
lifespan of the materials and techniques used and the intended
experience can be endless, often to the despair of the custodian of
the work. The processes involved in preserving this complex form of
art; reinstalling it, finding ways to recreate the experience over
and again, as well as the decision-making that underlies these
processes, form the backbone of this book.

What did the artist originally intend and how has that concept been
realized in the past? How can one preserve and document the
installation? What relation exists between the components and the
space, and what is the spectator's part in the work? Questions of
this kind are examined in connection with a number of case studies.
At the same time, the book reports on the results of an extensive
research project, Inside Installations (2004-2007), carried out by
an international group of custodians active in the conservation of
contemporary art.

Tatja Scholte is programme manager at the Cultural Heritage Agency
(RCE) in the Netherlands and specializes in the theory of
contemporary art conservation.

Glenn Wharton serves as Media Conservator at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York. He is also on faculty in the Museum Studies Program
at New York University, and was the founding Executive Director of
INCCA-NA, the North American group of the International Network for
the Conservation of Contemporary Art.

In collaboration with the editorial board: Karen te Brake-Baldock,
Gunnar Heydenreich, Paulien 't Hoen, Frederika Huys, Pip Laurenson,
Arianne Vanrell Vellosillo.

    Amsterdam University Press
    ISBN 9789089642882
    Euro40.00
    Paperback
    February 2011
    268 pages, 120 f/c and b/w photos

Order via

        http://www.aup.nl

or your (online) bookstore.

List of Contributors

    Bart Ankersmit
    Senior researcher
    Cultural Heritage Agency / RCE, the Netherlands

    Ulrike Baumgart
    Conservator
    Art Documentation, Bonn, Germany

    Reinhard Bek
    Head of Conservation
    Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland

    Karen te Brake-Baldock
    Researcher and INCCA coordinator
    Cultural Heritage Agency / RCE, the Netherlands

    Agnes W. Brokerhof
    Senior researcher
    Cultural Heritage Agency / RCE, the Netherlands

    Aebhric Coleman
    Manager
    James Coleman Studio, Dublin, Ireland

    Maike Grun
    Conservator
    Doerner Institut Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, Germany

    Gunnar Heydenreich
    Professor
    Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences - Cologne University
    of Applied Sciences, Germany

    Hilkka Hiiop
    Conservator
    Art Museum of Estonia / KUMU, Tallinn, Estonia

    Paulien 't Hoen
    Coordinator
    Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art / SBMK, the
    Netherlands

    Frederika Huys
    Head of Conservation
    Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst / S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

    Monika Jadzinska
    Conservator and teacher
    Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

    Agathe Jarczyk
    Conservator
    Video Conservation Studio Berne, Switzerland

    Pip Laurenson
    Head of Collection Care Research
    Tate, London, United Kingdom

    Kerstin Luber
    Conservator
    Doerner Institut Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, Germany

    Thea van Oosten
    Senior conservation scientist
    Cultural Heritage Agency / RCE, the Netherlands

    Janneke Ottens
    Head Research Moveable Heritage
    Cultural Heritage Agency / RCE, the Netherlands

    Martina Pfenninger
    Teaching and research staff
    Institute for Conservation, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

    Marina Pugliese
    Curator
    Museo del Novecento and the Historic House Museums, Milan, Italy
    (since end 2010, Museum Director)

    Vivian van Saaze
    Postdoctoral researcher
    Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the
    Netherlands

    Tatja Scholte
    Senior researcher
    Cultural Heritage Agency / RCE
    The Netherlands

    Lucas Sigefredo
    Technical Director
    Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil

    Barbara Sommermeyer
    Conservator
    Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

    Sanneke Stigter
    Programme Leader MA Modern and Contemporary Art Conservation;
    Conservator University of Amsterdam and Kruller-Muller Museum,
    the Netherlands

    Iwona Szmelter
    Professor
    Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw and University of Warsaw, Poland

    Fenna Yola Tykwer
    Scientific associate
    Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany

    Arianne Vanrell Vellosillo
    Conservator
    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, Spain

    Simone Vermaat
    Senior researcher
    Cultural Heritage Agency / RCE, the Netherlands

    Franziska Wagner
    Head of Conservation
    Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (Zkm)

    Glenn Wharton
    University Research Faculty
    New York University and conservator, Museum of Modern Art, New
    York, USA

    Gaby Wijers
    Collection and preservation
    Netherlands Media Art Institute / NIMk, Amsterdam, the
    Netherlands

    Thomas Zirlewagen
    Freelance conservator
    Zurich, Switzerland

Ms. K.E. (Karen) te Brake-Baldock
Onderzoeker / Researcher
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
Research Moveable Heritage
Hobbemastraat 22
1071 ZC
Amsterdam
Room BG.H1
PO Box 1600
3800 BP
Amersfoort
The Netherlands
+31 20 305 47 15


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