Affiliation(s)

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University.

Research group: New Strategies in the Conservation of Contemporary Art

Estimated date of completion

September 2013

Previous education and/or work experience

- Ph.D thesis Doing Artworks. A Study into the Presentation and Conservation of Installation Artworks, Maastricht University / Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (completed 2009)

- project member Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage and Foundation for Conservation of Contemporary Art (2000-2004)

Abstract

Documenting artworks. On knowledge transfer and documentation procedures in the re-execution of contemporary artworks. The central question of my current research is: How can we understand - in processes of re-execution of contemporary artworks - the relationship between knowledge transfer and procedures of documentation? The aim of the research is to contribute to the awareness of the effects of documentation practices by closely examining the day-to-day practice of museum documentation procedures. The research examines how conservators and curators learn to install the work of artists by examining processes of knowledge transfer from artist to museum staff (case study 1), in the absence of the artist (case study 2), and among museum staff members (case study 3). Comparisons are made with knowledge transfer procedures developed in other art forms relying on re-execution practices, notably contemporary dance.

Contact

Dr Vivian van Saaze

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Website: http://www.fdcw.unimaas.nl/staff/van saaze

Project website: www.newstrategiesinconservation.nl

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Department of Literature and Art

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