Name

Christel Pesme

Title of research project / research interests

Regime of Historicity and Agency of Conservation on Contemporary Works of Art

Affiliation(s)

University of Paris 1- Pantheon-Sorbonne

Supervisor(s)

Pr. Thierry Lalot

Estimated date of completion

2013

Previous education and/or work experience

Education: Master in Art History and Master in Conservation

Work experiences: Paper conservator and Research assistant in science at the Getty Conservation Institute.

Abstract

My Ph.D. research will investigate if and how conservation transforms the agency of a work of art on the culturally dominant timescape.

I have identified at least three fundamental research questions to help ascertain the question: How is conservation culturally and ethically framed? How can works of art subvert the culturally dominant conception of time and its associated representations? How does conservation intervene on the cultural biography of an artwork?

My research will consider, through a series of case studies from experimental art genre, the results of the agency of contemporary artworks on conception and representations of time. This art genre has emerged addressing the inter-subjective and processual nature of the production of meanings and Time-as where subjectivity is produced-became a matter of these artistic explorations.

Investigating the process of museum institutionalization, the politics of display and their associated practicalities as part of the cultural biography for each case study, I will focus on possible differences in conceptions of time between the collecting institution and the work of art. More specifically, each conservation strategy to create continuity in the artwork ‘s cultural biography and the subsequent impact on the agency of the artwork on representation of time will be analyzed for each selected case.

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