Conference curation and conservation

Conference

"The Explicit Material: On the Intersections of Cultures of Curation
    and Conservation"
Washington DC
February 5, 2016
2:30-5 pm

Session organised on the occasion of the 104th Annual Conference of
the College Art Association

The "explicit material" approach wishes to advance a way of thinking
about the materiality of objects as they enter our collections and
undergo a transformation from their previous context(s) to a
museological one.  This session invites an interdisciplinary
dialogue to explore the relationships between curatorial and
conservation philosophies across a range of institutions, focusing
on the ways in which these apparently divergent fields shape
thinking about--and the practices of--collecting, exhibiting, and
caring for objects.  The presentations cover a wide range of subject
matter: from perishable media to medieval manuscripts, and from
self-effacing photographs to films on museum collections, and myths
about abstract expressionists.

The conservators, scholars and curators on the panel---Thea Burns,
Allison Pappas, Brigit Cleppe and Dawn Rogala--are in dialogue about
questions of materiality, value, uniqueness, endurance and decay,
and attempt to give a more nuanced voice to different forms of
documentary evidence.

Chairs:

    Hanna B. Holling
    University College London

and

    Francesca G. Bewer
    Harvard Art Museums

Please, join us on Friday, February 5, 2016, 2:30-5 pm at the
Coolidge, Mezzanine Level, of the Washington Marriott Wardman Park
Hotel.

For details, see

    <URL:http://conference.collegeart.org/programs/the-explicit-material-on-the-intersections-of-cultures-of-curation-and-conservation/>


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