Preserving Liveliness, 16.12.2022, 9-18 h

Symposium of the Institute for Conservation–Restoration/ Modern and Contemporary Art and the Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology in the Art of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna on the Handling of Processual, Organic and Living Materials in Contemporary Art.

Concept: Carolin Bohlmann (IKR) / Katja Sterflinger (INTK)

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Conference Room, Ground Floor Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna

Registration is not required, participation is free of charge.

The conference will address conservation issues regarding living processual materials, and transient, processual, and performative artworks – questions that have increasingly preoccupied the field of conservation in recent years. Topics related to the collaboration with natural scientists, curators, climatologists, and pest control specialists will be discussed as well as options of how to exhibit, perceive, collect, document and preserve these works of art.

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