Forschungs-Mittwoch #172 Dance's Disturbances to the Museum's Model of Care

In this talk, former dancer and art historian Dr. Megan Metcalf will present dance-specific challenges to central conservation concepts and procedures.

19.06.2024, 5pm–6.30pm – HKB, Grosse Aula, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern

A woman sorts clothes lying on a table. More clothes are hanging on a white wall. The scene is lit from the right by a large rectangular lamp.
Abigail Sebaly catalogues costumes from the Walker Art Center’s Merce Cunningham Dance Company acquisition in 2011. Photo credit: Gene Pittman.

Drawing on examples from two decades of research on dance in museums, Dr. Megan Metcalf will explore how dance pressures fundamental terms within object conservation. At the same time, evolutions in the theory and practice of conservation in recent years reveal how the discipline has already incorporated choreographic principles in the wake of 1960s art practices engaged with the embodied, the ephemeral, and the social, a productive convergence with long-term effects for artworks, institutions, artists, choreographers, and beyond.

Speaker: Megan Metcalf
Moderation: Carmen Effner
Host: Institut Materialität in Kunst und Kultur

Hinweis: The talk will be held in English.

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  • Start date 19.06.2024, 5pm–6.30pm
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  • Place HKB, Grosse Aula, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern