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Parallel session
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Title
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How to Perform an Artwork?
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Type
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presentations & discussion
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Date, time
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Wednesday 9th June, 15:00-17:00
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Organisation
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Gaby Wijers, Coordinator of collection, preservation and related research
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Netherlands Media Art Institute / NIMk
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Description
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Currently museums of contemporary art are working on procedures for preserving performance works. What knowledge and new methods for the documentation, transmission and preservation of dance and performance are under construction? What can dance documentation for reconstruction learn from contemporary art and vice versa? The interdisciplinary Inside Movement Knowledge project research group from the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) will present parallels and differences in preservation, documentation and knowledge transfer in media art and contemporary dance practices. Four lectures are followed by a lively discussion.
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Part 1
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Presentations
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Speaker 1
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Scott deLahunta, researcher, consultant, organiser
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Emerging forms of 'knowledge transfer' in Contemporary Dance
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Speaker 2
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Annet Dekker, programme manager, Virtueel Platform
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What can media art (documentation) learn from performance documentation?
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Speaker 3
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Jan Mot, owner Jan Mot Gallery
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On Tino Sehgal
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Part 2
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Discussion moderated by Gaby Wijers & Vivian van Saaze
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Moderator 1
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Gaby Wijers is Coordinator of collection, preservation and related research at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam (NL). She coordinated the project Preservation of Video Art in the Netherlands 2001-2003, participated in research projects as 404 Object not found, OASIS archive, Inside Installations, GAMA and currently in Inside Movement Knowledge and Obsolete Equipment. Selected publications: « Strategien und Fallstudien zur Erhaltung von Medienkunst durch das Netherlands Media Art Institute» In: Schweizer Videokunst der 1970er und 1980er Jahre, eine Rekonstruction. Zürich : jrp|ringier, 2009, Video documentation of installations (online course 2007) » ed. by Gaby Wijers, Karen te Brake-Baldock, Sami Kallinen, «The Sustainability of Video Art : Preservation of Dutch Video Art Collections», ed. by Gaby Wijers a.o., , SBMK : Amsterdam, 2003; since 2005 she edits the online newsletter Monitoring Media Art Preservation and is guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Gaby is since 2008 head of the Steering Committee of the SBMK.
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Moderator 2
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Vivian van Saaze, postdoctoral researcher, Maastricht University
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Vivian van Saaze recently completed her Ph.D. thesis Doing Artworks. A Study into the Conservation and Preservation of Installation Artworks at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University and Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN). In 2009 she obtained a postdoctoral research position at FASoS within the research project ‘New Strategies in the Conservation of Contemporary Art’. Her current research - funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) - further explores museum practices of contemporary art conservation by focusing on new concepts of knowledge and documentation strategies. The main question being: How can we understand - in processes of re-execution of contemporary artworks - the relationship between knowledge transfer and procedures of documentation? Comparisons are made with knowledge transfer procedures developed in other art forms relying on re-execution practices, notably contemporary dance.
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Programme 
