Documentation of Installation Art

The ZKM is staging the 4th Workshop of the EU project on the Preservation and Presentation of Installation Art in conjunction with the Düsseldorf Restoration Centre. Among the guests will be curators and restorers from the ICN Amsterdam, the TATE London, the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, the SMBK Foundation for the Conservation of Modern Art Amsterdam and many other national and European partners in the project.

Contemporary art works, which tend to be diversified and often consist of several parts, are subsumed under the heading of installation art. They comprise a wide variety of elements, such as audiovisual and electronic media, net art and performance, which often have close spatial ties or are connected to the exhibition site.
 

“Plessi-Rad” case study

As it continues to spread and multiply, installation art poses new challenges to the conservation, presentation and management of collections. The Documentation and Archiving Strategies Workshop will study the experience gathered by project partners and international experts with the aim of working out new methods and standards for recording and documentation.

One of the ZKM’s contributions to this three-year research project on the maintenance of installation art, which is the most extensive of its kind to date, is the case study on Fabrizio Plessi’s »Tempo Liquido«.

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Program 

December 1, 2015

9:45
Survival of the Fittest - Notes on the Documentation of Contemporary Art
Harald Krämer, Bern

10:30
Interaction - The Museum in a New Media Landscape
Initiatives from the Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde Louise Cone, Copenhagen, www.mfsk.dk

11:45
Documentary Film: Fact or Fiction?
Robert McNab, London, www.artistsonfilm.co.uk

12:50
AktiveArchive - Electronic Art in Switzerland: Preservation, Documentation and Access
Joanna Phillips, Irene Müller, Zürich, www.aktivearchive.ch

14:30 Workshop Part I: Introduction
A Model for the Documentation of Installation Art
Gunnar Heydenreich, Düsseldorf

15:30
Workshop Part II: Working Phase in Two Working Groups

17:15
Workshop Part III: Presentation of Results, Discussion
 

December 2, 2015

9:30
Measurement of Installation Art
Maike Grün, Munich

9:50
Recording Movement – Between Material and Ephemeral
Reinhard Bek, Basle

10:10
Audio Documentation of Sounding Objects
Robert Hermann, Basle

11:15
From the General View to Detail Information: Integration of Multi Medial Information in a Spherical Panorama Image
Ulrike Baumgart, Marcus Weiß, Bonn

Mapping the Studio: An e-learning Project
Digital Programmes Tate, London, www.tate.org.uk 

Case Study Dennis Oppenheim - An Analysis of the Documentation
Arianne Vanrell, Craig Gordon, Madrid

12:30
Presentation of the Case Study Fabrizio Plessi Tempo Liquido
Thomas Zirlewagen, Karlsruhe

14:00
Workshop Part I: Introduction to the Exhibition "Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht"
Gregor Jansen, Karlsruhe

14:30
Workshop Part II: Documentation of Light
Thomas Zirlewagen, Ulrich Lang, Ulrike Baumgart

16:00
What's in a Name? Differing Views of the Term ‚Installation‘
Discussion Prepared by B4 WG, Moderated by Cornelia Weyer, Düsseldorf