Reflections on a Biographical Approach to Contemporary Art Conservation

van de Vall, Renée; Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Scholte, Tatja; Stigter, Sanneke (2011). Reflections on a Biographical Approach to Contemporary Art Conservation In: ICOM Committee for Conservation 16th Triennial Meeting (pp. 1-8). Critério Artes Gráficas, Lda. / ICOM Committee for Conservation

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Rather than preserving original objects, the conservation of contemporary art should be thought of as managing change. This raises the question of how to theoretically capture the variability of the work without losing the sense of its artistic identity. The researchers participating in the interdisciplinary project New strategies in the conservation of contemporary art propose to use a biographical approach to investigate and compare the histories of artworks, both before and after they enter museum collections. In this paper the authors claim that not only do decisive turning points in an artwork’s life occur at other moments than those conventionally recognised, but moreover, that they are made up of various and diverging timelines, to be mapped as a river’s trajectory.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture > Contemporary Art and Media
Name:	van de Vall, Renée; Hölling, Hanna Barbara0000-0002-3063-4405; Scholte, Tatja and Stigter, Sanneke
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
ISSN:	978-989-97522-0-7
Publisher:	Critério Artes Gráficas, Lda. / ICOM Committee for Conservation
Funders:	[UNSPECIFIED] Dutch Research Council
Projects:	[UNSPECIFIED] New Strategies for the Conservation of Contemporary Art
Language:	English
Submitter:	Hanna Barbara Hölling
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2023 11:10
Last Modified:	16 Jan 2024 15:26
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Uncontrolled Keywords:	Biography, biographical approach, conservation, theory, contemporary art conservation
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.19861
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19861