PRESERVING THE INTANGIBLE : SUSTAINING THE MATERIAL AND THE SYMBOLIC

ICOM Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) Seoul 2004.

ICOM-CC will on Tuesday, October 5, from 09.30 - 13.00, the day devoted to
the Concurrent Sessions on “Protection of Cultural Heritage", organise a
seminar with ten presentations aimed at prompting a lively discussion
between all meeting participants.
The theme of the session could best be described as focusing 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 engages issues of collecting, collection care, representation
and access from a new perspective and hence will appeal to members from all
ICOM Committees – hence all delegates are invited to this arrangement.


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

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

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

4.      Luiz Souza, Professor Cecor School of Fine Arts, Federal University of
Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte: “The Preservation of Cultural Properties in
Brazil: Innovative Strategies for the Accomplishment of Common Goals”

5.      Charlie Smith, Chair of the Aboriginal Cultural Material Committee in
Western
Australia: “Loss of cultural value of objects in museum collections”.

6.      Jim Pepper Henry & Marian A. Kaminitz, National Museum of the American
Indian, Suitland: “Conservation, Cultural risk and Sensitive collections at
the NMAI”

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

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

9.      David Grattan, Acting Director Conservation and Scientific Services,
Canadian
Conservation Institute, Ottawa: "Intangible heritage preservation and the
preservation of media"

10.     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 Caroline Villers, Vice-chair ICOM-CC,
Director of the Department of Conservation and Technology, Courtauld
Institute of Art, London.

After the meeting the Dutch organising committee will make an announcement
related to the
14th ICOM-CC Triennial Meeting to be held in The Hague, The Netherlands,
September 12-16, 2005.

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