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Posted by: The Art Institute of Chicago
Deadline: Wed, June 7th, 2017

A stray eyelash caught on film: moments of materiality and making in the conservation of contemporary art

A lecture by Pip Laurenson, Tate Gallery, London

As part of the “Modern/Contemporary Materialities” lecture and scholars’ workshop series at The Art Institute of Chicago, generously supported by the Stockman Family Foundation.

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Lecture: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Studio A, Ryan Learning Center, Art Institute, entrance via the Modern Wing

About the series:

This lecture is the second event of a multi-faceted scholarly lecture and workshop series “Modern/Contemporary Materialities” at the Art Institute of Chicago. The series examines how renewed focus on the object in current research impacts new thinking on modern and contemporary art. It features international experts who will speak to the material complexities of 20th-21st century artworks, the techniques used in their making, life and care in institutions, and impact on art historical knowledge.

In the present day, new approaches to studying art and its materialities not only supplement the most recent methodological challenges of the object, materiality and agency, but also present a spectrum of the different ‘scientific cultures’ of art history and related disciplines. The impact of heterogeneous research methodologies will be discussed, namely how insights from science and technology, cultural history, history of science, social history, and political and economic history, as well as current research and concerns arising from notions of materiality and display, lead us to an understanding of modern objects as discursive, as both profoundly embedded and embodying.

From the spring of 2017 to the spring 2018, the Art Institute will host four lectures that will bring together interdisciplinary thinkers from art history, science and conservation, and across fields of museum practice. The series will culminate in an object-based art history scholars’ day in May 2018 that will draw together the various threads of discussion advanced over the course of the year.

About the presenter:

Pip Laurenson is the Head of Collection Care Research at the Tate and Professor of Art, Collection and Care at Maastricht University. She has over twenty years of experience in the conservation of contemporary art beginning her career in Sculpture Conservation at Tate and going on to establish and lead Tate’s pioneering Time-based Media Conservation section from 1996 until 2010. Pip is committed to interdisciplinary research that serves and responds to art of our time and in exploring what it means for a contemporary art museum to be a research organization. She has acted as the lead for Tate on a number of collaborative research initiatives, including Inside Installations (2004–7), Collecting the Performative (2012–14), Matters in Media Art (2004–ongoing) and New Approaches to the Conservation of Contemporary Art (2015–19). She was also the lead researcher for Tate on Pericles (2013–2017), a Horizon 2020 research project that developed new approaches to digital preservation. In her current role she develops, leads and supports research related to the conservation and management of Tate’s collections. She received her PhD from University College London, is an accredited member of the Institute for Conservation, a trustee of the UK’s National Science and Heritage Forum, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA).

Please note that the space will be limited so please RSVP at jtrujillo@artic.edu. The lecture will be live streamed and a video will be archived and available after the event at the Art Institute of Chicago’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdzYlX6g17M

Organized by: Maria Kokkori and Francesca Casadio in the Department of Conservation and Science, and Jill Bugajski, Academic Engagement and Research, The Art Institute of Chicago.

Posted on Thu, May 25th, 2017
Expires on Wed, June 7th, 2017

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