Date: 13 Nov 2024 - 13 Nov 2024
Date: 13 November 2024 (Wed)
Time: 10:00 am–12:00 nn
Language: English
Venue: Drake Gallery, 1/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Panelists:
Dr. Robert van Langh, Head of Conservation and Science at the Rijksmuseum, Chair of Netherlands Institute for Conservation+Art+Science
Professor Pip Laurenson, Director of the MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media, University College London
Dr. Yong Lei, Deputy Director, Conservation Department, The Palace Museum, Beijing
Moderator:
Professor Marc Walton, Museum Studies Programme, The University of Hong Kong
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The understanding that art conservation is solely a practical profession, with a narrow focus on acquiring just the information necessary to treat an object, is an outdated perception of the field. More akin to the history of art— which concerns itself with contextualizing art, for example, with more immaterial concepts of iconography, audience, and economics— conservation has evolved into a complex and conceptual field while still rooted in craft traditions. This panel, which is sponsored by the Museum Studies program at the University of Hong Kong, will examine how the pedagogy of conservation (and conservation science) can provide new information and fresh approaches to the study of material culture. This panel will thus explore conservation as a transdisciplinary space that combines traditional scholarship with scientific studies of the arts.