Conference Day 2 – Workshops
Conserving contemporary artworks that may challenge the very notion of art and its materiality, has seen the practice and profession of conservation expand to webs of relationships and infrastructures that have direct impact on the Planet. This conference asks questions about the sustainability of those practices and networks of care. SUSTAINING ART sees conservators, artists, curators, technicians, collectors, researchers and more, coming together to challenge assumptions, examine practices, and imagine equitable futures. Through experience pieces, research talks, panel discussions, workshops, and short films the sustainability of people, practices, and the planet will be pursued in relation to the conservation of contemporary art.
Henry McGhie
Curating Tomorrow Unlocking the potential
This workshop will explore people’s sustainability goals, and the actions that are/ can be taken to achieve them. The workshop will draw on ICCROM’s initiative ‘Our collections Matter’ which aims
to empower collections and those who work with them to play their fullest part in contributing to sustainable development in concrete ways. The workshop will explore sustainable development
(as opposed to sustainability) and provide participants with opportunities to talk with one another about their sustainability goals, and the actions they are taking to achieve them, and to
raise ambition to make a bigger and better difference.
About Henry McGhie
Henry McGhie runs the UK-based consultancy Curating Tomorrow, working to empower museums and their partners to contribute to sustainable development agendas, including the SDGs, climate action, biodiversity conservation, human rights and Disaster Risk Reduction. He works internationally with museums and heritage organisations. He is a consultant on ICCROM’s Our Collections Matter project.
Olivia Brum and Gaby Wijers
Collaborative care of digital art
Claudia Roeck, Olivia Brum and Gaby Wijers will present and discuss their current collaborative project designed to build knowledge and confidence to support the collection and preservation of digital art in the Netherlands (with 18 participating institutions and networks) and explore a documentation and preservation case study in the scope of this project. In this workshop we aim to share experiences and research as well as discuss strategies for the documentation and preservation of digital art for and by artists, curators and conservators. The net art case study Compressed Forrest by Jan Robert Leegte will be introduced and explored. The questions we focus on are centred around: What is the core of this work? What should we remember about this
artwork? What about the work should we carry into the future? What kind of documentation do we need now and in the future to understand the work, how the work functions or functioned?
How can we collaborate and share knowledge with the community on this and other research cases?
About Olivia Brum
Olivia Brum graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a Master of Science in the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and a certificate of completion for their subsequent Advanced Professional Programme. She currently works as Junior Conservator at LIMA on their Infrastructure for Sustainable Access to Digital Art Project.
About Gaby Wijers
Gaby Wijers is founder and director of LIMA. Previously she was coordinator of collection, preservation and related research at Montevideo/TBA/NIMk, Amsterdam (NL); she has a background in information management, theater and informatics. She initiated, advised and participated in multiple national and international projects dealing with the documentation, preservation and access of immaterial and interactive art, specialisation media art and performance.