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Parallel session
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Title
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Decision-making in Contemporary Art Conservation: on the Structured Approach and Use of Models in Practice
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Type
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workshop
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Date, time
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Friday 11th June, 10:00-12:00
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Organisation
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Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (SBMK), Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL), and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (SMA)
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Contact
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Lydia Beerkens, conservator of modern art, SRAL
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Guests
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Anne Mink, art historian, research project, SMA
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Rebecca Timmermans, sculpture conservator, SMA
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Location
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Participants in this session are to make their own way to the location in the morning. The Rijksakademie is 3 minutes walk from the symposium location Royal Tropical Institute / KIT. In case of delay call the reception of the Rijksakademie +31 20 527 0300. Doors open at 09:00 to view installation. See below for details. Please note, this location has no wheelchair access.
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Description
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This workshop focuses on the decisive process taking place during every conservation intervention on modern and contemporary works of art. With some major case studies from Dutch modern art museums, speakers will discuss the original and present state as well as the meaning of the artwork, discrepancies between state and meaning and the options for treatment or intervention that came about during the conservation. How possible options were weighed and the way the decisions were subsequently made will be compared and discussed in:
the process of re-installing installations by Joan Jonas in cooperation with the artist and the conservation and cleaning of works by Jan Schoonhoven (Dutch Zero artist), cases from the Dutch modern art museum collections.
The second part of the workshop is interactive and participants will about the model for decision-making; how its structure functions, how to follow each step and the options for its use and adaptation.
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Installation
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On the occasion of this symposium, Joan Jonas' installation Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy/Organic Honey's Vertical Roll from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, will be on display at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Sarphartistraat 470 (room 'projectruimte zuid').
Opening times are:
Wednesday 9th June, 13:00-14:00 (during lunch break)
Thursday 10th June, 13:00-14:00 (during lunch break)
Friday 11th June, 09:00-10:00 (before workshop) and 12:00-13:00 (during lunch break)
Please note, this location has no wheelchair access.
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Biography
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Lydia Beerkens is a conservator of modern and contemporary art working for several Dutch museums and collections from her own private studio. She trained as a conservator of paintings and sculpture at SRAL Maastricht (Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg) (1995) following her studies in art history at the University of Nijmegen (graduated in 1989). Lydia worked as a research-conservator in the project on conservation of modern art, resulting in the symposium and publication ‘Modern Art: Who Cares?’ (1997/1999). After 1997 she developed the modern and contemporary art training programme at SRAL and is now responsible for or the post-masters training programme in modern and contemporary art conservation in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam. She was lecturer at the Cologne Institute for Conservation Sciences for two years. She gives workshops in at different schools for conservation in Europe, lectures on a regular basis at international conferences and has published in many conservation journals and magazines. Lydia is a board member of the SBMK (Foundation for the Conservation of Modern Art) and part of the SBMK ‘Balance group’. She is currently on the editorial board of the SBMK publication ‘The Artist Interview’ which is due for launch in 2011. In addition, Lydia is helping to organise the programme of the international symposium, Contemporary Art: Who Cares?. Lydia is member of INCCA, of the ICOM-CC working group MMCA and the VDR Fachgruppe MKKM.
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Location
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The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten is an international research and production place for talented professional artists from around the world. Fifty resident artists work up to two years in a studio of their own on research, experiments, projects and production. With support, facilities and artistic, theoretical and technical knowledge, the Rijksakademie creates an environment in which the residents are able to develop in full concentration. The Rijksakademie also organizes the PRIXDEROME.NL, a dynamic art and architectural prize, it manages historical and contemporary collections and makes them accessible through publications and presentations by the Expertise Center. The Rijksakademie is nationally and internationally proven significant in the world of contemporary art.
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