IIC 2016 Saving the Now

Special Issue: IIC 2016 Los Angeles Congress Preprints

Preface

Graham Voce

Foreword

Sarah Staniforth

 

Supplementary issue papers

Cindy Sherman: A Play of Selves. A collaborative approach to conservation

J.Uca Ackerman, Peter Mustardo, Hanako Muarata, Tatiana Cole

 

Challenges in the conservation of the work of León Ferrari

Gabriela Baldomá, Marta S. Maier

 

Side by side: old and new standard in the conservation of modern art. A comparative study on 20 years of modern art conservation practice

Lydia Beerkens

 

Street art conservation in Athens: Critical conservation in a time of crisis

Maria Chatzidakis

 

The Artist Initiative at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Robin Clark, Michelle Barger

 

Keith Haring in Pisa and Melbourne: Controversy and conservation

Jenny Dickens, Antonio Rava, Maria Perla Colombini, Marcello Picollo, Will Shank

 

Conservation the self-taught artists collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Tiarna Doherty, Helen Ingalls, Amber Kerr, Catherine Maynor and Leslie Umberger

 

Reflections on light monitoring: Evaluating museum lighting options for modern and contemporary art

Charlotte W. Eng, Frank D. Preusser, Terry T. Schaeffer

 

Coat of arms: Dvetailing the needs of outdoor sculpture and military assets to develop more durable and adaptable paint systems

John A. Escarsega, Abigail Mack, Rachel Rivenc, Tom Lerner

 

The role of conservation in new contemporary art installations in new contexts: The case of Richard Serra’s East-West/West-East in Qatar

Stavroula Golfomitsou

 

Conserving a boundary: The conservation and management of a Berlin Wall mural

Kiernan Graves, Katey Corda

 

Dialogus in conservation decision-making

Jane Henderson, Tanya Nakamoto

 

Transitional media: duration, recursion, and the paradigm of conservation

Hanna Hölling

 

Altered surfaces, taking the long view: Applications of ethnographic conservation practices to the conservation of contemporary art

Stephanie E. Hornbeck, Dana L. Moffett

 

The future is not what it used to be: Changing views on contemporary color photography

Nora W. Kennedy, Meredith Reiss, Katherine Sanderson

 

The potential role of citizen conservation in re-shaping approaches to murals in an urban context

Caroline Kyi, Nicole Tse, Sandra Khazam

 

This is so contemporary? Mediums of exchange and conservation

Robert Lazarus Lane, Jessye Wdowin-McGregor

 

Do conservators dream of electric sheep? Replias and replication

Louise Lawson, Simon Cane

 

New paint, new challenges: Conservation of Roy Lichtenstein’s outdoor sculpture House I

Nani Lew, Jihyun Choi

 

Challenges and approaches in conserving New Ink Art

Angela Wai0sum Liu, Athena Kin-kam Wong, Evita So Yeung

 

Finding common ground and inherent differences: Artist and community engagement in cultural material and contemporary art conservation

Kelly McHugh, Anne Gunnison

 

Collecting participatory art at the Denver Art Museum

Kate Moomaw

 

Conservation of a contemporary lacquered screen A collaborative, interdisciplinary international project involving the artist, fabricators and  conservators from three different areas

Julia Nagle, Lyndsey Morgan

 

The industrial connections in Donald Judd’s art

Eleonora E. Nagy

 

Where contemporary art and contemporary music preservation practices meet: The case of Salt Itinerary

Andreia Nogueira, Rita Macedo, Isabel Pires

 

Migrating facsimiles: When copies disappear from conservation control

Alison Norton

 

Curation, conservation, and the artist in Silent Explosion: Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art

Emily O’Reilly, Rose Miller, Judit Bodor

 

Walking the walk and the impact of space and place on new media art

Alice Boccia Paterakis, Astra Price, Hillary Kapan

 

The parallel paths of conservation of contemporary art and indigenous collections

Renata F. Peters

 

Materiality and immateriality in Lucio Fontana’s environments: From documentary research to the reproduction of lost artworks

Marina Pugliese, Barbara Ferriani, Iolanda Ratti

 

Reality and illusion: Achieving a balance in the exhibition and treatment of Robert Gober’s Untitled wax legs

Megan Randall

 

Considerations in the acquisition of contemporary art: Refabrication as a preservation strategy

Gwynne Ryan

 

Breaking the rules: A new life for Rescue Public Murals

J. William Shank, Tim Drescher

 

Mesocycles in conserving plastics

Yvonne Shashoua

 

Testing the limits: The theoretical development and practical reality of a large-scale agarose gel treatment for a discoloured Morris Louis

Samantha Skelton, Corina Rogge, Zahira Véliz Bomford

 

Examining the digital future of an analogue slide-based artworks at the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Barbara Sommermeyer, Claartje van Haaften

 

Autoethnography as a new approach in conservation

Sanneke Stigter

 

‘There is nothing more practical than a good theory’: Conceptual tools for conservation practice

Muriel Verbeeck

 

The Artist Archives Project: David Wojnarowicz

Glenn Wharton, Deena Engel, Marvin C. Taylor

 

Preserving the Open Form. The Oskar and Zofia Hansen House in Szumin: Between architecture and contemporary art

Agnieszka Wielocha, Aleksandra Kedziorek

 

Conservation from conception: Commissioning an installation by Cai Guo-Qiang

Elizabeth Wild, Amanda Pagliarino, Russell Storer

 

The importance of documentation to the conservation of the 1955 welded steel sculpture Roundabout, by Leslie Thorton

Stefania Agnoletti, Arianna Rachele Vecchierelli, Luciano Pensabene Buemi

 

Values, ideas, and practices in social representation of the subject: A possible dialogue between artist and conservator on contemporary art

Mário Anacleto de Sousa Júnior, Rosario Llamas Pacheco

 

 

Supplementary issue poster summaries

Use of nanocoatings for the restoration of matte paintings

Carlotta Beccaria, Annalisa Colombo, Francesca Gherardi, Valentina Mombrini, Lucia Toniolo

 

Art and architecture separated. Homless art: The case of a wallpainting by Victor Vasarély

Kristina Brakebusch, Börries Brakebusch

 

On the changing appearance of, and potential treatment options for, softening and dripping paints in CoBrA oil paintings

Ida Antonia Tank Bronken, JAap J. Boon, Robert W.Corkery, Hartmut Kutzke, Calin Constantin Steindal

 

Core concepts in disaster preparedness, response, and recovery for inkject-printed phootgraphs and fine art

Daniel Burge

 

The Beuys Tree: History, conservation and display

Julian Cech, Gabriela Krist, Eva Putzgruber

 

The smell of an old journey: The conservation of the travel diary of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor

Simona Cenci

 

Conserving contemporary artworks: perspectives of artists and curators at the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe

Davison Chiwara, Richard Mudariki

 

‘Zip’: An adhesive plastic film in architectural drawings

Marion Cinqulbre, Maroussia Duranton, Jéromine Baudin, Stéphane Bouvet, Olivier Cinqualbre, Emilie Le Bourg

Mosha: the role of contemporary replicas in the conservation and preservation of Japanese paintings

Justine Ellis, Yasuhiro Oka, Shiho Hashimoto

 

Conservation of the modern thangka, Caturbhuji-Avalokiteshvara 

Xiaoji Fang, Rui Zhang, Ningchang Shi, Jirong Song

 

The use of industrial paint on wood by Lygia Clark

Giulia Giovani, Luiz Antônio Cruz Souza, Yacy-Ara Froner, Alessandrea Rosado

 

Curling, ripples, dimples: Observations from a condition survey of animation cels

Katharina Hoeyng, Suzanna Etyemez, Kristen McCormick, Michael Schilling, Alan Phenix

 

Surface behaviour of PMMA: Is gel cleaning the way to go?

Stefani Kavda, Nishad Dhopatkar, Lora V. Angelova, Emma Richardson, Stavroula Golfomitsou, Ali Dhinojwala

 

How far should we go? A controversioal issue in mural conservation in Hong Kong

Eddy Leung, Alice Tsang, Jimmy Wong, Dominic Kan

 

Improving museum lighting: new experiments in perception and the colour changes caused by white LED lighting

Hung-Wen Luo, Hung-Shing Chen, Ching-Ju Chou, Ming Ronnier Luo

 

Influence of environment on the stability of Chinese traditional colorants

Xiyun Luo, Nannan Fang, Wenquing Zhang, Yiping Du

 

The dilemma of fading food: An investigation into the light sensitivity of selected Ed Rushca screenprints

Laura Maccarelli, Heahter Brown, Charlotte WQ. Eng

 

Lavatio Corporis: replicating process art involving decomposing flesh

Ana Lizeth Mata Delgado, Claugia María Coronado García

 

A productive collaboration between conservation and industry: Developing wet surface cleaning systems for unvarnished painted surfaces

Bronwyn Ormsby, Alan Phenix, Melinda Keefe, Tom Lerner

 

Surgery, conservation, art: An unusual collaboration

Flavia Perugini, Flor Mayoral, Daniel Godoy

 

To be preserved or to be replaced? Contemporary religious imagery in Latin America an dits conservation

Diego Iván Quintero Balbás

 

Interviewing artists exhibited in The Field (1968): The use of acrylic paints in a seminal exhibition of Australian colour field painting

Raymonda Rajkowski, Nicole Andrea Tse, Beckett Rozentals

 

Distinguishing manufacturing practices for titanium white pigments: New Raman markers for dating commercial oil-based paints

Corina E. Rogge, Julie Arslanoglu

 

Twin Wells: the reconstruction and re-installation of a multi-media installation with fog and sound elements by Dennis Oppenheim

Artemis Rüstau, Claire Hoffmann, Kerstin Mürer

 

Common challenges for ethnographic and modern art collections: Pest control for large and complex objects containing new materials

Naoko Sonoda, Shingo Hidaka, Kaoru Suemori

 

Conservation of ephemeral art: restoring banana skin in works by Lo Yi-chun

Ioseba I. Soraluze, Yu-chen Chen, Chien-hua Lu

 

Development of a new environmental monitoring system for museums and galleries using RFID-enabled technology

Jonathan Tse

 

Please to not sit? The display of contemporary furniture in historic locations

Qifan Wang, Kathryn Hallett

 

Conservation of outdoor sculpture: Challenges of three installations in Hong Kong

Yan Ki Wong, Sam Liu, Ronnie Kam, Wing Fai Lai, Alice Tsang