FRIDAY, APRIL 17
All talks will be held in the auditorium of the Manton Research Center.
10 AM WELCOME REMARKS
Alexander Nagel (New York University), “Introduction: Conservation as Performance”
SESSION I: FRAGMENTS & LACUNAE
Moderated by Esther Bell (Clark Art Institute)
10:30 AM Annika Svendsen Finne (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), “Re-Paintings in Late Medieval Italy as Synchronizations of Art Creation with Art History”
11 AM Gabriela Siracusano (MATERIA: Centro de Investigación en Arte, Materia y Cultura, Buenos Aires), “Minimum Worlds: Material Poetics Between Time, Details, and Fragments”
11:30 AM CONVERSATION
SESSION II: MAKING & TEMPORALITY
Moderated by Alexander Nagel (New York University)
2 PM Sven Dupré (Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam), “Art History and the Reconstruction of Skill”
2:30 PM Murad Khan Mumtaz (Williams College), “‘Strung into Writing, Enchained into Painting’: Conservation in the Persianate Album”
3 PM BREAK
3:30 PM Fernando Domínguez Rubio (University of California, San Diego), “On Mimeographic Labor and the Arts of Creating the Same”
4 PM Erma Hermens (University of Amsterdam), “Choreographies of Technical Art History: An Interdisciplinary Approach”
4:30 PM CONVERSATION
5 PM RECEPTION
EVENING KEYNOTE: BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND ART HISTORY
Moderated by Lesley Paisley (Independent Paper Conservator)
5:30 PM Iwataro Oka (Oka Bokkodo Co., Ltd., Conservation Studio for National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties), “The Influence of Conservation Practice on the Viewing and Appreciation of Japanese Painting”
6 PM Yukio Lippit (Harvard University), “Japanese Painting: Mounting, Mediation, Transmission, Renewal”
6:30 PM CONVERSATION
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
All talks will be held in the auditorium of the Manton Research Center.
SESSION III: MEMORY & IDENTITY
Moderated by Katarzyna Pieprzak (Williams College)
10 AM Jennifer Bajorek (Hampshire College and Smith College), “But Who Decided? Epistemes and Politics of Decay”
10:30 AM Caroline Fowler (Clark Art Institute), “Conservation’s Surfaces”
11 AM BREAK
11:30 AM Kavita Singh (School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal University, New Delhi), “Conservation and the Unmaking of Indian Art History”
12 PM CONVERSATION
SESSION IV: PERFORMANCE & ARCHIVE
Moderated by Lisa Dorin (Williams College Museum of Art)
3 PM Chương-Đài Võ (Asia Art Archive), “Southeast Asia: Performance and Art Historiography”
3:30 PM Joanna Phillips (Restaurierungszentrum der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf / Conservation Center of the City of Düsseldorf), “Contemporary Art as a Catalyzer of Cross-disciplinary Conservation Cultures”
4 PM CONVERSATION
4:30 PM BREAK
5 PM ARTIST TALK
Ina Archer (National Museum of African American History and Culture), “Loves Labor (Eventually) Lost”
In conversation with Noah Smalls (Williams College Museum of Art)
6 PM CLOSING RECEPTION