Call for papers and posters--IIC Congress

"Saving the Now: Crossing Boundaries to Conserve Contemporary Works"
IIC Congress
Los Angeles

Conserving contemporary art?

You now have until 15 July 2015 to save.

Contemporary Art delivers contemporary problems to the conservation
community and may mean that we deconstruct and re-invent "standard"
conservation thinking and practice.

"Saving the Now: Crossing Boundaries to Conserve Contemporary Works"
IIC's 2016 Congress, links so very well with its setting, Los
Angeles, in allowing things to be looked at in very different and
new ways.

This can be a minefield--or a source of new and creative approaches
to heritage conservation.  As we move ahead with new artists, new
materials, new concepts of what creativity is, we must adapt what
conservation involves and tries to achieve.  We may borrow from
other areas of skill and expertise in doing this.  We may change our
concepts of what conservation is there to do in the first place.

What are your thoughts, your experiences, your predictions?  Let's
start you off here:

    How do you work without the benefit or comfort of that
    well-established hierarchy of values available to colleagues
    working on more traditional heritage objects?

    Are you working with a range of different and varied
    conservation philosophies and approaches--from various countries
    and cultures, from differing disciplines and markets--to
    develop new methods for conserving contemporary works?

    What will we lose if your major guiding principle is the
    artist's intent?  If it is known at all, that is

    Can the commercial art market help influence Institutional
    thinking on conservation?

    How is public art influencing conservation practice and theory?

    Are the ethics and values used in conserving the built heritage
    applicable to the conservation of moveable heritage and vice
    versa?

    Can approaches used for conserving ethnographic collections be
    applied to contemporary art practice?

    Can non-materialistic philosophies help to move the field
    forward in broader terms?

Submit your proposal for a paper or a poster now.  It's easy: go to

    <URL:https://www.iiconservation.org/congress>

Share your expertise and learn first-hand what your colleagues
around the world are doing.

A call for Student posters will be made later in the year.

Please contact us at iic<-at->iiconservation<.>org if you have any
questions or wish to receive further information on the Congress

Graham Voce
Executive Secretary
International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic
    Works 3
Birdcage Walk
London SW1H 9JJ UK
+44 20 7799 5500
Fax: +44 20 7799 4961


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