About the Group
We are pleased to host a reading group through the Contemporary Art Network (CAN!). The group meets on Zoom in 1-hour sessions to discuss select recent contributions to contemporary art conservation theory, and to critically assess these readings in a relaxed and informal manner. This is intended to be an open space where we can grapple with our perspectives on some of the more nuanced and complex aspects of the field and our practice. Everyone is welcome!
All of these articles are open access but please feel free to reach out if you have difficulty finding them in advance of the sessions. We look forward to seeing you!
Register here:
https://learning.culturalheritage.org/products/can-reading-group
The group is organized and led by:
Upcoming Reading Groups
We plan to announce the next group soon!
Past Reading Groups
Thursday, December 9, 2021 4pm EST / 3pm CT / 1pm PST / 8pm GMT
Sanneke Stigter (2016) Autoethnography as a new approach in conservation, Studies in Conservation, 61:sup2, 227-232, DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2016.1183104
Thursday, January 20, 2022 4pm EST
Rosario Llamas-Pacheco (2020) Some Theory for the Conservation of Contemporary Art, Studies in Conservation, 65:8, 487-498, DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2020.1733790
Thursday, February 17, 2022 4pm EST
Hanna Hölling (2017): The technique of conservation: on realms of theory and cultures of practice, Journal of the Institute of Conservation, DOI: 10.1080/19455224.2017.1322114
November 17, 2022, at 4pm EST / 3pm CT / 1pm PST / 9pm GMT
Domínguez Rubio, F. (2014). "Preserving the unpreservable: Docile and unruly objects at MoMA." Theory and Society, 43(6), 617–645.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-014-9233-4. Article can be accessed here: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qr4d9qx
Thursday, April 13 at 4:00 p.m. ET.
Zoë Miller, "Practitioner (in)Visibility in the Conservation of Contemporary Art." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 60, no. 2-3 (2021): 197–209. https://doi.org/10.1080/01971360.2021.1951550.