Conference:
Material Futures: Matter, Memory and Loss in Contemporary Art Production and 
Preservation 28th – 30th June 2017 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, 
Glasgow, UK

Contemporary artistic practices have prompted a reconsideration of boundaries 
between the roles of artists and institutional staff, and between processes of 
art production, exhibition, and preservation. This two-day conference will 
provide a forum for professionals, researchers, and students working across 
different disciplines to discuss urgent questions regarding artwork identity, 
permanence and impermanence, reproducibility and replication, and the role of 
the artist and the institution in constructing and maintaining memory. It will 
explore these questions and other areas where artistic practice, curatorial 
practice, and conservation decision-making intersect through themes of 
materiality, memory and loss.

Programme: Two and a half days of paper presentations and panels examining the 
conference theme. The conference will be in English.

Keynote speakers:
Karla Black (artist)
Tiziana Caianiello (Zero Foundation)
Anne Fletcher (van Abbemuseum)

List of Papers:
Lucy Askew (NGS) with contributions from collections management staff at NGS 
and Glasgow Museums: Steven Campbell (1953-2007), On Form and Fiction, 1989-90
Simon Fleury (Birmingham School of Art & Design): Encountering the MuseumObject
Nim Goede (University of Amsterdam): Robert Morris’s Material Metaphor for 
Memory: Lead as a model for the Brain
Hans-Jürgen Hafner (critic and curator): Always Trouble with Flynt. Tracing 
Conceptual Art
Claire M. Holdsworth (Kingston School of Art): Vocal and Material Mourning: 
Stuart Marshall, Mouth Works (1975/76)
Ulrich Lang (Die Restauratoren): The Fortune of the Presence
Louise Lawson & Acatia Finbow (Tate): Reflections on Tate’s Documentation of 
Performance Artworks: Creating the Institutional Memory of an Artwork
Laura Leuzzi, Elaine Shemilt & Stephen Partridge (EWVA, DJCAD): Methodologies, 
Strategies and Practice Based Research Methods to uncover and narrate early 
European Women’s Video Art
Adam Lockhart (DJCAD): Machine Vision
Hélia Marçal (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de 
Lisboa): Beyond Temporality: Performance Art Conservation as a Remembrance of 
Place
Jo Ana Morfin (Independent Scholar): Restored Behaviour: Performing Materiality
Ariane Noël de Tilly (Emily Carr University of Art & Design): What Remains of 
ATSA’s State of Emergency
Alison Norton (Moderna Museet): Migrating Facsimiles: Copies and Conservation 
Control
Denise Petzold (Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst): (Im)Materiality in the 
Museum: Shaping Joseph Beuys’s Information Action through Curating Documentation
Gwynne Ryan (Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden): Refabricating, Re-Making, 
and Re-Thinking: A Continuation of the Artist’s Process
Anna Schäffler (Free University Berlin): Memory Process in Practice. On the 
Ensemble Art of Anna Oppermann and Contemporary Art Preservation
Martha C. Singer & Kate Wight Tyler (Owner/Director, Material Whisperer; 
Brooklyn Museum): Boob Jobs: Treatments of Duchamp and Donati’s Latex Foam 
Breasts
Sanneke Stigter (University of Amsterdam): Picturing Peter Struycken’s Blue 
Waves: Collecting Memories as a Form of Conservation
Yukiko Watari (HIGURE 17- 15 cas): The Expanding Role of Art Installers: 
Distributed Model for Documentation Practice

Registration: Numbers for the conference are limited and early registration is 
advised. Register as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Online booking 
is available at https://ccaglasgow.ticketsolve.com/shows/873574036

Conference fee: 150 €
Concessions: 50 €
Planning Committee: Dr. Dominic Paterson (University of Glasgow), Dr. Erma 
Hermens (Rijksmuseum), Brian Castriota (University of Glasgow), Nina Quabeck 
(University of Glasgow)
Administration: Dr. Leila Riszko ([email protected])
The conference is supported by the Innovative Training Network ‘New Approaches 
in the Conservation of Contemporary Art’ (NACCA), which receives funding from 
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the 
Marie Sk ł odowska-Curie grant agreement no. 642892.

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