Documentation and Conservation of Contemporary Art
Code
11001
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Conservação e Restauro
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Rita Andreia Silva Pinto de Macedo
Weekly hours
4
Total hours
56
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Give the students competence to produce documentation for contemporary art preservation.
Subject matter
1. A brief history of documentation for the preservation of contemporary art
2. Contemporary art, tangible, intangible. Documentation and artistic process. Installation, Performance, Media Art.
3. Documentation, theory and ethics of conservation. Casuistic approach versus generalistic approach.
4. Documentation and artistic intention, originality and authenticity.
5. Notions of Documentation and Museums practices.
6. Documentation production: the role of social and human sciences
7. Methodolodies and techniques for the production of contemporary art documentation: interviews, oral history, triangulation and validation.
7.1 Creative process, Materials and Techniques, Meaning. Context, Conveyance, Aging, Deterioration and Conservation,
8. Dissemination and Technology
Bibliography
Bibliografia
AA.VV, Art D’aujourd’hui, Patrimoine de Demain. Conservation ey Restauration des Oeuvres Contemporaines, 13ª journées de la SFIIC, Paris, Institut National du Patrimoine, 2009.
AA.VV, The Nara conference on Authenticity in Relation to the World Heritage Convention, Proceedings, UNESCO World Heritage Centre / Agency for Cultural Affairs, ICCROM, ICOMOS, Nara (Japão), 1995.
Altshuler, B. (coord.), Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art, Princeton-Oxford University Press, 2005.
Alloa, Emmanuel (coord.) Penser L’Image, Sait-Etienne, Les Presses du Réel, 2010.
Beerkens, Lydia, (et. al), The Artist Interview. For Conservation and Presentation of Contemporary Art Guidelines and Practice, Amesterdão, Japsam Books, 2012.
Avrami, Erica, et al, Values and Heritage Conservation: Research Report, Los Angeles, Getty Conservation Institute, 2000.
Ijsbrand Hummelen & Dionne Sillé (coord.), Modern Art: Who Cares?, Londres, Archetype publications, 2005.
Bénichou, Anne (coord.) Ouvrir le Document. Enjeux et pratiques de la documentations dans les arts visuels contemporains, Saint-Étienne, Les Presses du Réel, 2010.
Corzo, Miguel Angel, (coord), Mortality/Immortality The Legacy of 20th Century Art, Los Angeles, Getty Institute, 1999.
Heuman, Jackie (coord.) Material Matters. The Conservation of Modern Sculpture, Londres, Tate Gallery Pulishing, 1999.
Macedo, Rita, “The Artist, the Curator, the Restorer and their conflicts within the context of contemporary art”, in Theory and Practice in Conservation: A Tribute to Cesare Brandi (coord. Delagado Rodrigues e J.M. Mimoso, Proceeidings, Eu-Artech, LNEC, 2006.
Macedo, Rita, Desafios da Arte Contemporânea à Conservação e Restauro. Documentar a Arte Portuguesa dos Anos 60/70, Tese de Doutoramento, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2008.
Muñoz Viñas, Salvador, Contemporary Theory of Conservation, Oxford, Elsevier, 2005.
Merewether, Charles, The Archive, Documents on Contemporary Art, Londres, Whitchapel, MIT Press, 2006.
Real, William, “Toward guidelines for practice in the preservation and documentation of technology-based installation art”, JAIC, vol. 40, nº3, 2001.
Richmond and Bracker (coord.) Conservation. Principles, Dilemmas and Unconfortamble Truths, Londres, Elsevier, 2010.
Tatja Scholte e Glenn Wharton (coord.) Inside Intallations, Theory and Practice in the Care of Complex Artworks (coord.), Amesterdão, Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Saaze, Vivian, Doing Artworks. A Study into the Presentation and conservation of Installation Artworks, Tese de Doutoramento, Universidade de Masstricht, 2009 (exemplar policopiado)
Evaluation method
Continuous evaluation based on texts dicussion and presentation.
the student must deliver a script for an interview with an artist.
perform an evaluation test