Survey of the film Installation Art: Who Cares?

As part of the Access2CA sub-project a film was produced. Installation Art: Who Cares? is a 25 minute documentary film offering a glimpse behind the scenes of the European museum. It was created as an educational tool for the broad public to explain the problems that museum professionals deal with in the maintenance and presentation of installation art. For details and to watch the film go to: Film: Installation Art: Who Cares?

The film (even in an unfinished stage) provided fantastic content to organise a series of public events on the subject of the conservation of contemporary art for a broad (museum) public. A questionnaire was created as well as two starter questions for the discussion and a series of screenings were organised; most for a broad (museum) public and some for museum professionals. The screenings took place before the film was completed and provided invaluable information to the makers of the film to adjust and improve it for the final version. In addition, as part of the Access2CA research we were able to test the public’s response to the subject dealt with in the film, and to test if indeed the film as chosen format suited this type of information. See below for the results of the survey per screening:

Click here to see overall results of the survey.

Screening, survey and discussion:

Results IA:WC? screening Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Results IA:WC? screening Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (professionals)

Results IA:WC? screening Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst S.M.A.K., Ghent

Results IA:WC? screening Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn

Results IA:WC? screening Tate, London

Screening and discussion only:

Results IA:WC? screening Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (youth)

Results IA:WC? screening conservation staff, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Results IA:WC? screening INCCA-NA and NYRAC, University of New York