{"id":179,"date":"2016-10-07T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacca.eu\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2016-10-08T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T12:55:01","slug":"contemporary-art-conservation-and-ethnography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nacca.eu\/research-projects\/contemporary-art-conservation-and-ethnography\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation of Contemporary Art and Ethnographic Materials: Relationships, Similarities and Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research Project Description<\/b>
\nA number of parallels have been drawn between contemporary art and ethnographic materials, including the ephemerality of the materials used and especially the processual, performative, and interactive context in which these materials are situated. Documentational research methods from anthropology such as \u2018participant observation\u2019 have also been consulted by conservation researchers seeking to gain a holistic understanding of the challenges posed by contemporary artworks. The goal of this PhD project is to push the interdisciplinary trend further by exploring the relationship between these two fields of conservation. An anthropological approach to object conservation stems from a particular understanding of the interplay between material and immaterial culture, the creation and communication of value and meaning, and ethnography as a mode of research capable of documenting these phenomena. Critically examining this approach to ethnographic collections documentation and care, and its similarities to and differences from contemporary art conservation, the researcher will seek to understand how new methodologies, theoretical paradigms, and forms of documentation from one area of practice can benefit the other. <\/p>\n

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Researcher<\/b>
\nCaitlin Spangler-Bickell
\nc.spangler-bickell@maastrichtuniversity.nl<\/p>\n

Bio<\/b>
\nCaitlin Spangler-Bickell received her BA in Anthropology \/ Archaeology, Summa Cum Laude, from Saint Mary\u2019s College of California in the United States and her MSc in Anthropology, Summa Cum Laude, from KU Leuven in Belgium. In addition to ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork, Caitlin has worked in various arts, culture, and science museum environments in the U.S., France, South Africa, and Belgium. She brings this experience in collections management and care, exhibition research and curation, education and public programmes, and heritage preservation initiatives to her NACCA project.<\/p>\n

Home Institution<\/b>
\nFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences<\/a>, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
\nMUDEC – Museo delle Culture<\/a>, Milan, Italy<\/p>\n

Supervisors<\/b>
\nPromotor: Prof. dr. Ren\u00e9e van de Vall<\/a>, Maastricht University
\nCo-supervisor: Dr. Carolina Orsini<\/a>, Museo delle Culture, Milan
\nCo-supervisor: MA Iolanda Ratti, Museo delle Culture, Milan<\/p>\n

Project Partners<\/b>
\nThe Fowler Museum at UCLA<\/a>
\nUCLA\/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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