The papers present work from an interdisciplinary group of both early stage researchers and established scholars, who critically examine the implications of an expanded notion of making for the custodianship and perpetuation of a wide range of contemporary artworks. All papers are published open access and after peer review.
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(Re)-Constructing Memories: Some Thoughts About Conservation
Tiziana Caianiello
Object Trouble: Constructing and Performing Artwork Identity in the Museum
Brian Castriota
Reproduction and the Attribution of Authenticity in the Conservation of Contemporary Photography: Thomas Ruff's Portrait Pia Stadbäumer at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Marta García Celma
Performance Art in the Making: Distributed Knowledge and New Dependencies
Iona Goldie-Scot
Knowledge Management, Figurative Language, and the Artist's Voice in Contemporary Art Conservation
Rebecca Gordon
Keeping Time: On Museum, Temporality and Heterotopia
Hanna B. Hölling
Situated Knowledges and Materiality in the Conservation of Performance Art
Hélia Marçal
Enacting Artistic Authorship in Contemporary Art Conservation: Contracts, Incompleteness, and the Possibility of Making
Zoë Miller
Affronts to Inertia: Atsa's Staged Encounters
Ariane Noël de Tilly
Messy Text and the Accessioning of Wolfgang Tillman's Life is Astronomical Installation (2001-2012)
Nina Quabeck
The Collector's Impact on the Creation Process of Site-Related Artworks
Artemis Rüstau
Dividuality, Partibility, Individuation: A Paradigm for the Care of Expanding Artworks
Caitlin Spangler-Bickell
Art Objects as Documents and the Distributed Identity of Contemporary Artworks
Aga Wielocha
