PRESERVING THE INTANGIBLE : SUSTAINING THE MATERIAL AND THE SYMBOLIC

ICOM Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) Seoul 2004

ICOM-CC invites all Conference delegates to a seminar on Tuesday 5 October,
from 09.30 - 13.00, in Room 311 in the COEX Convention Center.

The theme of the session could best be described as focussing on the
intangible properties of material culture. This is an important part of
intangible heritage, which can too easily be limited to the non-material.

This seminar will be moderated by Catherine Antomarchi, Collections Unit
Director ICCROM, Rome.

The seminar engages issues of collecting, collection care, representation
and access from a new perspective and the following eight presentations aim
at prompting a lively discussion among all meeting participants.

“Welcome and introduction to the ICOM-CC session 2004” by Jørgen Wadum,
Chair ICOM-CC, and Chief Conservator, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The
Hague.

1.      Alissandra Cummins, Chairperson of the ICOM Advisory Committee, and
Director Barbados Museum & Historical Society: Keynote address to
“Preserving the Intangible: Sustaining the Material and the Symbolic”

2.      Mikkel Scharff, Head of Department, School of Conservation, Copenhagen:
“Reconstructing lost polychromy and the meaning of classical artefacts"

3.      Peter Yu, Manager of Indigenous Cultural Affairs, Western Australia:
“Loss of cultural value of objects in museum collections”

4.      W. Richard West, Jr., Director National Museum of the American Indian
(NMAI), Washington, D.C. & Marian A. Kaminitz, Head of Conservation NMAI:
“Making a Song Visible: NMAI and Community Consultations”

5.      John Moses, Conservator with the Canadian Museum of Civilization,
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada: “Museums, Aboriginal Communities, and the Role of
the Conservator”

6.      Tae Young Lee, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University, Seoul:
“Conservation of The Tripitaka Koreana -Strategy of the preservation on past
and future”

7.      David Grattan, Acting Director Conservation and Scientific Services,
Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa: “Preserving the Intangible - the
Significance and Challenge of Electronic Media”

8.      Ysbrand Hummelen, Senior researcher, Instituut Collectie Nederland (ICN),
Amsterdam: "Capturing the versatility of tacit knowledge and non-tangible
aspects in contemporary art"

PLENARY DISCUSSION - chaired by Jørgen Wadum.

At the end of the meeting the Dutch Organising Committee will have an
announcement about the 14th ICOM-CC Triennial Meeting in The Hague, The
Netherlands,
September 12-16, 2005.

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