Performing
Documentation
Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 20-21 June 2013
In the Conservation of Contemporary Art
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Renée van de Vall (UM) Vivian van Saaze (UM) Gunnar Heydenreich (CiCS) Rita Macedo (FCT‐IHA‐UNL)
Lúcia Almeida Matos (IHA‐UNL/FBAUP)
LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Rita Macedo
Lúcia Almeida Matos Cris na Barros Oliveira Andreia Nogueira Hélia Marçal Teresa Azevedo
Performing Documenta on in the Conserva on of Contemporary Art is jointly organized by the research project Documenta on of Contemporary Art and the Network for Conserva on of Contemporary Art Research (NeCCAR).
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Contemporary art conservation requires a re-assessment of the distinction between the work and its re- configuration in documentation.
Although documentation is crucial for the survival of many contemporary works of art, it is never neu- tral: all approaches, formats, media and systems have their own inherent affordances and blind spots and always transform what they document. Furthermore, in process-centered, technology-based or per- formative artworks in particular, we often can no longer make a sharp distinction between an original work and its subsequent documentation or replication: documentation is part of the work's very core.
On the other hand, even the most meticulously documented works will need to be re-installed or re- performed regularly in order to survive, because otherwise important tacit know-how will get lost.
The role of the artist in this process is central, but contested: what if s/he changes her mind, loses inter- est or is no longer available? And what if the authorship of the work is distributed over several actors?
Also, the role of the conservator has taken new dimensions: conservation responsibilities and tasks are now distributed over a diversity of agents.
20th June 21th June 09:00 Registration
09:50 Welcome
10:00 NECCAR Presentation Welcome
Renée van de Vall
10:10 Documenting the user experience: from Blast Theory's Rider Spoke, to RAMM's Moor Stories and Tate's Art Maps
Documenting dilemmas. On the relevance of ethically ambiguous cases
Gabriella Giannachi Renée van de Vall
10:40 The role of artistic documentation in
conserving and convey social relationships Analysing Incommensurable Values in Contemporary Art Documentation:
Insights from Cultural Sociology
Liliana Coutinho Jan Marontate
11:00 Performing documentation and documenting performance: assessing methodologies for reinstallation and preservation
Documenting the Artist Interview and Artist Participation for the purpose of Conservation of a Conceptual and Variable Installation by Jan Dibbets
Rebecca Gordon Sanneke Stigter
11:20 Coffee break Coffee break
11:50 Performance art, its «documentation», its archives – about the longing for
recollection, the quality of forgetting and new possibilities of transmission of contemporary art
artemak®. From a compilation of questionnaires … to a wiki-based online- platform … to an interdisciplinary documentation and research project
Irene Mullër Ursula Haller, Erich Gantzert-Castrillo & Ivo Mohrmann
12:10 Poster session Poster session
12:30 Discussion led by Erma Hermens Discussion led by Gunnar Heydenreich
13:00 Lunch Lunch
14:30 We don't need no documentation.
Reflections on the practice of remembrance.
Documenting the Analogue Past in Marijke van Warmerdam's Film Installations
Vivian van Saaze Julia Noordegraaf
15:00 Reactivation Strategies for Unstable Events The quest for the survival of net art, or a speculative approach to documentation
Jo Ana Morfin Annet Dekker
15:20 Discussion led by Paolo Martore Discussion led by Pip Laurenson
15:40 Coffee break Coffee break
16:10 Documentation of Contemporary Art
Project Presentation (Project Documentation of Contemporary Art)
Rita Macedo e Lúcia Almeida Matos Andreia Magalhães & Susana Lourenço Marques
16:20 (Project Documentation of Contemporary Art) (Project Documentation of Contemporary Art) Hélia Marçal & Andreia Nogueira Hélia Marçal & Andreia Nogueira
16:40 (Project Documentation of Contemporary Art) Public Access in the Age of Documented Art
Cristina Barros Oliveira Glenn Wharton
17:00 Discussion led by Rita Macedo Discussion led by Lúcia Almeida Matos 17:30 Book presentation of Preserving and
Exhibiting Media Art, Inside Installations and Installation Art and the Museum. An authors’
conversation featuring Tatja Scholte, Glenn Wharton, Julia Noordegraaf and Vivian van Saaze
Closing
17:50 Closing
