Collecting and conserving performance art

International Symposium

"Collecting and Conserving Performance Art"
Wolfsburg/Germany
June 9-11, 2016

Registration open

The German Association of Conservator-Restorers (VDR) is delighted
to announce the major international symposium "Collecting and
Conserving Performance Art", to be hosted by the Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg in Germany on June 9--11, 2016.

Full program:

    <URL:http://bit.ly/1Mhs4HW>

Registration (early booking recommended: limited seating available)

    English
    <URL:http://restauratoren.de/index.php?id=632>

    German
    <URL:http://restauratoren.de/index.php?id=630>

Registration fees before April 30, 2016:

    200,00 Euros VDR/SKR/CRV Member
    240,00 Euros Non-Member
    80,00 Euros VDR/SKR/CRV Student Member
    120,00 Euros Non-Member Student

Registration fees after April 30, 2016

    240,00 Euros VDR/SKR/CRV Members
    280,00 Euros Non-Member
    120,00 Euros VDR/SKR/CRV Student-Member
    160,00 Euros Non-Member Student

Over the last decade, art collections and museums around the world
have seen a rapid increase in the acquisition of historic and
contemporary performance art and its relics.  This emerging
collection practice challenges artists and collection caretakers
alike: How can the time- and site-specific experience of an artist's
live performance be expanded and transformed into an artwork with a
sustainable collection life?  What status do performance props and
documentary materials hold within a collection, and how is their
status determined?  How can the artwork's identity and integrity be
preserved and experienced now and in the future?  What information
and components should be entering the collection to ensure the
authentic reactivation of the work?  How are copyright laws,
artist's rights and future interpreter's rights accounted for in the
acquisition contract?  What are the vulnerabilities inherent to a
performance artwork?  And how are preservation risks identified,
documented and responded to?

The two-and-a-half day event approaches issues surrounding the
acquisition of performance art by bringing together conservators,
curators, art historians, artists, collectors, researchers, art
educators and other professionals, who are involved in the
production, distribution, collection, documentation and conservation
of performance art.  Perspectives on heritage development and
documentation in adjacent disciplines, such as theater and dance,
are invited to inform the discussion.  Under investigation will be a
variety of existing practices for bringing an artist's live
performance into a collection, including the license to re-perform
the work based on an artist-provided score; film and video
recordings of historic or recent performance iterations; autonomous
art installations; documentation created by former audiences,
participants and producers; and performance props and other objects
that represent the live event.


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