Dates:
13 - 16 February 2024

Instructors:
Paolo CREMONESI, Conservation Scientist
Letizia SATTO, Conservator

Program

First Day
9:00 – 13:00 and 14:00-18:00, Lecture, Cremonesi

Properties and mode of action of water. The aqueous environment: pH, acids and bases, buffers. Ionization, dissociation and hydrolysis. Salts and solubility. Ion concentration, conductivity and related processes: ion diffusion and osmosis. The tonicity of aqueous solutions. Auxiliary ‘active principles’: surfactants and chelators, classification and mode of action. Gelling materials: polysaccharide-based, polyacrylic acid derivatives and inorganic materials. Thermo-reversible gelling materials. Classification, properties and mode of action of hydrolytic enzymes.

Classification and properties of organic solvents. Volatility, diffusion and solving power. The issue of toxicity. The Solubility Parameters model. A gradual approach to solubility of film-formers: the solubility test. Siloxanes in free and gelled form. Siloxanes in free-and gelled-form and their use in temporary hydrophobization procedures for water-sensitive surfaces. Oil-in-water macroemulsions in gelled form.

Second Day
9:00 – 13:00 and 14:00 - 18:00. Practical Session, Cremonesi. Demonstration under a video camera connected to the video-projector.

Preparation of aqueous solution and solvent mixtures in free and gelled form. Measuring surface parameters (pH and conductivity). Simple spot test for identification of starch and proteins.

Third Day
9:00 – 13:00 and 14:00 - 18:00.  Practical Session, Satto

Washing treatments with aqueous solutions of different tonicity. Washing by capillarity treatments with non-woven materials. Rinsing with volatile-solute. Aqueous solutions in gelled form with polysaccharides, polyacrylates and Laponite, and as thermos-reversible rigid gels. Cleaning in combination with temporary hydrophobization through Siloxanes. Oil-in-water polymer macroemulsions, with and without temporary hydrophobization, for localized treatments of adhesive removal.

Fourth Day
9:00 – 13:00 and 14:00 - 18:00.  Practical Session, Satto

Preparation and application of hydrolytic enzyme solutions, in free- and gelled-form and as rigid gels: proteolytic and amylolytic enzymes. Deacidification treatments with Bicarbonates solutions as rigid gels. Localized chemical reduction/chelation treatments for rust spots, similar treatments for foxing.

In the practical Session, the course participants can practise on their own sample papers: various works of art on paper, traditional and modern, for treatments of 'cleaning', removal of adhesives, tapes, rust spots.  Water sensitive surfaces, fugitive inks, water-based paint media. Foxing.

Place
Berner Fachhochschule / Hochschule der Künste Bern
Fellerstrasse 11
3027 Bern

Number of participants
Practical session: limited to 13 participants
Lecture: limited to 26 participants

Costs
Practical and Lecture Part
CHF 675.-- non SKR members
CHF 450.-- SKR members

Lecture part only
CHF 300.-- non SKR members
CHF 200.-- SKR members

Registration deadline
18.12.2023

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer l'ouverture  de l’appel à communications pour notre congrès annuel de 2024. Le congrès aura lieu le 12.04.2024 pendant Cultura Suisse à Berne (10-12.04.2024). Nous vous invitons à soumettre une contribution à notre congrès annuel et à partager votre expertise avec la communauté.

Le thème de la durabilité nous préoccupe également dans le cadre de la conservation des biens culturels. Non seulement du point de vue des objets de collections et des monuments dont la préservation à long terme est l’objectif principal de notre métier, mais également des matériaux et locaux que nous utilisons dans notre pratique. Quels matériaux utilisons-nous pour une restauration, comment emballons-nous les biens culturels pour le transport ? Pour leur stockage ? Comment améliorer les conditions de stockage et la consommation d’énergie de ces lieux ? Comment pouvons-nous intégrer les principes  d’éco-resonsabilité, d’économie circulaire, de recyclage et de protection de la nature dans le processus de conservation et de restauration ? Est-ce qu’un objet qui acquiert un statut patrimonial et ainsi sort du système de consommation-recyclage répond au besoin écologique de notre monde en tant que témoin d’une innovation ou devient un fardeau consommateur énergétique ?

Nous nous réjouissons de recevoir des contributions de différentes disciplines et de spécialistes dans le domaine de la conservation-restauration, de l'archéologie, de la conservation des monuments, de l'architecture, de l'histoire de l'art ainsi que de la durabilité.

Les conférences peuvent être données en italien, français, allemand et anglais. Aucune traduction simultanée n'est prévue. Les résumés des conférences seront publiés dans la langue originale et en anglais dans le cahier d'accompagnement du colloque. Aucune autre publication des actes n'est prévue.

La durée de la présentation est limitée à 20 minutes. Veuillez envoyer votre résumé de 300 caractères maximum ainsi que le(s) nom(s) de(s) l'auteur(s), les coordonnées, un bref CV et le titre de la présentation jusqu'au 27.10.2023 à : Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!

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Le comité SCR et

le comité d'organisation

We are thrilled to invite paper contributions to our thematic session, "Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge" to be held at the 36th Congress of the International Committee for the History of Art (CIHA, June 23-28, 2024 in Lyon, France) on the theme "Matter Materiality."

Call For Papers "Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge" - 36th Congress of CIHA Lyon 2024 Matter/Materiality, June 23-28, 2024, Lyon, France

We are thrilled to invite paper contributions to our thematic session, "Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge" to be held at the 36th Congress of the International Committee for the History of Art (CIHA, June 23-28, 2024 in Lyon, France) on the theme "Matter Materiality."

Performance art is often considered an immaterial medium. Yet its immateriality is belied not only by the many material physical traces it leaves behind – including documents, costumes, and other objects – but also by the insistent, if ephemeral, materiality of the human body. This proposed panel seeks papers on the topic of performance’s materiality considered through the lens of conservation. What is the relationship between a performance and the materials it leaves behind, and what experience of the performance can be gleaned from them? Do photographs, “relics,” and other objects replace an absent body, thus smothering performance’s liveness, or do they refer melancholically to an unfillable lack? How might we understand the materiality of the body or, indeed, that of non-human performers such as animals, machines, or even bacteria? How can the material or immaterial elements of a performance be conserved? Though performance has sometimes been considered beyond the realm of art conservation, its increasing presence in museums and museum collections has rendered these questions urgent.

Encouraging global perspectives and particularly those from underrepresented contexts, we are calling for papers from scholars, conservators, artists, curators and others that take a theoretical or practical approach to exploring the various materialities of performance and their role in its continuation. We encourage contributions from all over the world that explore the conservation of contemporary, historical or indigenous performance; comparative examples of modern Western and non-Western conservation practices of performance conservation; performative elements in material art forms; the materiality of the performing body and its documentatory potential; the persistence of performance through physical elements or traces; the role of orality in the conservation of performance; aspect of continuity of performance in indigenous cultures; non-human performance and its conservation; care-thinking and communities of care and performance conservation; or any other relevant topic.

This panel is organized by team members of Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge - Hanna Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, Emilie Magnin, Joanna Lesnierowska and Charles Wrapner - a research project sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted by the Bern Academy of the Arts. While there has been increasing interest within scholarship and curatorial practice in performance and its afterlives, this research project is amongst the first to broadly and acutely address the problem of performance conservation both outside and inside institutions.

Submissions must be in either English or French and should include:

-a title

-350-500 word summary

-500 characters CV

The proposals can be submitted via the official CIHA Congress Call for Papers website on or before 15 September 2023: https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/fr/appel-a-communications.

Important dates:
Opening call for papers: 12 June 2023
Closing call for papers: September 15, 2023
Selection: October 11, 2023
Publication of the preliminary program of the 36th CIHA Congress: 27 October 2023
Conference dates: 23 to 27 June 2024

The presentations will take place in person in Lyon at the Congress Centre – Cité internationale. Mobility aids will be available on the website: Call for Grants (https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/fr/appel-a-bourses).

For further information on the call for papers, visit the Call for Papers (https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/fr/appel-a-communications), the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/fr/faq) or contact the CIHA Scientific Secretariat: Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!

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Organisation

International Committee for the History of Art (CIHA)

Website

https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/fr/appel-a-communications