Dear CRUMB list,
We hope that this international symposium on collecting and conserving
performance art might be of interest to this group!
Best,
Joanna
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REGISTRATION OPEN! International Symposium “Collecting and Conserving
Performance Art”, Wolfsburg/Germany, June 9-11, 2016
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: http://bit.ly/1Mhs4HW
REGISTRATION (EARLY BOOKING RECOMMENDED: LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE!):
http://restauratoren.de/index.php?id=632 (English);
http://restauratoren.de/index.php?id=630 (German)
Registration fees before April 30: 200,00 € VDR/SKR/ÖRV Member; 240,00 €
Non-Member; 80,00 € VDR/SKR/ÖRV Student Member; 120,00 € Non-Member
Student
Registration fees after April 30: 240,00 € VDR/SKR/ÖRV Member; 280,00 €
Non-Member; 120,00 € VDR/SKR/ÖRV Student-Member; 160,00 € 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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Joanna Phillips
Conservator, Time-based Media
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10128 0173
Phone 212 4233 746
Fax 212 5860 008
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