Thursday 22 March 2007, 09.15–18.30

This conference explores the idea that artists’ installations draw into sharp focus the way in which contemporary artistic practice can potentially shift the organisational logic of the museum.

Where is the dividing line between installation artist and curator? How should installations be conserved and reinstalled? How does this practice affect notions of artistic authorship? This conference looks at places of friction and resistance between contemporary art and traditional museum conventions, and considers how the roles of conservator and curator are evolving in response to particular artistic practices.

 

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£25 (£15 concessions), booking recommended

    

 

Program and Schedule

09.00 – 09.15        Access West Entrance Tate Modern next to Level 2 Café

09.15 – 09.20        Leslie Carlyle: Welcome

09.20 – 09.30        Pip Laurenson: Introduction of the first session

09.30 – 10.15        Saskia Sassen: How major global changes are reflected in some of the basic tenets of the museum. 

10.15 – 10.40       Jill Sterrett: The museum’s response to installation art in terms of shifting practices within conservation and the challenges of custodianship

10.40 – 11.05        Coffee and Tea Break

11.05 – 11.30        Bruce Altshuler: Exhibition, Collection, Re-creation

11.30 – 12.00       Panel Discussion moderated by Ysbrand Hummelen

12.00 – 13.35        Lunch

13.35 – 14.00        Vivian van Saaze: Doing artworks. An ethnographic study into a case study of the Inside Installations’ project

14.00 – 14.25        Andrzej Przywara: Preservation of Edward Krasinski’s studio in Warsaw and the preparation for the retrospective exhibition of Krasinski’s work  

14.25 – 14.50        Daniel Roesler: The Reconstruction of Oiticica’s Cosmococa – CC4 Nocagion

14.50 – 15.20   Panel Discussion moderated by Teresa Gleadowe

15.20 – 15.55        Coffee and Tea Break

15.55 – 16.20        Claire Bishop: What is a curator?

16.20 – 16.45        Alex Farquharson: When can an exhibition be a work of art?

16.45 – 17.15   Panel Discussion 

17.15 – 17.45   Final Panel

17.45 – 18.45  Drinks in East Room, Level 7

About the Speakers

Leslie Carlyle Head of Conservation, Tate

Pip Laurenson Head of Time-based Media Conservation, Tate

Saskia Sassen will examine how major global changes are reflected in some of the basic tenets of the museum (Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics)

Jill Sterrett will consider the museum’s response to installation art in terms of shifting practices within conservation and the challenges of custodianship. (Director of CollectionsSan FranciscoMuseum of Modern Art)

Bruce Altshuler will present a paper on Exhibition, Collection, Re-creation (Director of the Program in Museum Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University)

Vivian van Saaze will present a paper entitled Doing artworks. An ethnographic study into a case study of the Inside Installations’ project which explores how the acquisition, presentation and preservation of installation art challenges the working practices of the contemporary art museum with particular reference to the work of Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno. (Ph.D. candidate MaastrichtUniversity, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage)

Andrzej Przywara, a director of the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, will speak about issues raised by the project to preserve the studio of Edward Krasinski in the Warsaw apartment he took over from the Polish constructivist Henryk Stazewski.  He will also speak about work undertaken in preparation for the retrospective exhibition of Krasinski’s work presented by the Generali Foundation in Vienna last summer.

Daniel Roesler, Gallery Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, will speak about the reconstruction of Oiticica’s Cosmococa – CC4 Nocagions

Claire Bishop will present a paper entitled What is a curator? in which she will consider the simultaneous emergence of installation art, institutional critique and the independent curator in the period 1968-72.  (Assistant Professor in Art History at University of Warwick)

Alex Farquharson will present a paper entitled When can an exhibition be a work of art? In which he will consider the exhibition as work of art through the practices of artist-curators, performative curators and experimental exhibition designers (Freelance curator and critic and Research Fellow, Royal College of Art)

Teresa Gleadowe (Former Director of the Curating Contemporary Art Department at the Royal College of Art (1992-2006), freelance curator and writer) Moderator

Daniel Roesler, Gallery Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, will speak about the reconstruction of Oiticica’s Cosmococa – CC4 Nocagions

 

The meeting is the last in a series organized across Europe as part of a project funded by Culture 2000 “Inside Installations: the preservation and presentation of Installation art”.