The project.Post-doctoral project running from September 2021 until August 2024. It is led by Andreia Nogueira and funded by national funds through the Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (FCT) under the project UID/05488/2020.
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Since the late 1970s multi-media has come to define an artwork that uses a combination of electronic media, which could include video, film, audio and computers. (Retrieved from Tate Art Terms).
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No one talks about, researches, teaches or exhibits/ presents multimedia works or other sorts of artistic creations (especially those performance-based, intangible, ephemeral or born-digital), that are not preserved through documentation, simply because they disappear. This happens firstly because they do not have any material support with which to enter into dialogue, and secondly for our memory is volatile and precarious, hence the need for the establishment of a musical notation or other sorts of documentation capable of materializing the immaterial, allowing artworks to pass on from the past to the present and the future. Thus, taking the issue of preservation is of the utmost urgency and importance for the maintenance of our cultural heritage and in particular for the long-term sustainability of multimedia artworks, which are being neglected and forgotten, with their future remaining uncertain.
Given the similar performance-based nature of many contemporary visual artworks (e.g., installations, time-based media, performance, software, net art, etc.) and musical compositions (e.g., electroacoustic, live electronic and computer music, etc.), a cross fertilization of the preservation practices applied to contemporary artworks in the fields of visual arts and music could be fruitful for both domains, and especially for the sustainability of multimedia artworks created in between these artistic spaces (those targeted by this study).
In this context, the ARTinBetween project will be based on an interdisciplinary and pioneering approach on the interplay of contemporary art and contemporary music preservation practices. In this case by studying selected multimedia artworks created from the 60s onwards by Portuguese artists and/or composers and by implementing:
Given the similar performance-based nature of many contemporary visual artworks (e.g., installations, time-based media, performance, software, net art, etc.) and musical compositions (e.g., electroacoustic, live electronic and computer music, etc.), a cross fertilization of the preservation practices applied to contemporary artworks in the fields of visual arts and music could be fruitful for both domains, and especially for the sustainability of multimedia artworks created in between these artistic spaces (those targeted by this study).
In this context, the ARTinBetween project will be based on an interdisciplinary and pioneering approach on the interplay of contemporary art and contemporary music preservation practices. In this case by studying selected multimedia artworks created from the 60s onwards by Portuguese artists and/or composers and by implementing:
- a creative conservation approach with conservators (much as musical interpreters) assuming their authorship in the preservation and presentation of our cultural heritage, through a deep reflection on the articulation between traditional and creative conservation.
- a smart conservation approach, for the development of a more sustainable practice by strengthening stakeholders’ sense of belonging through a continuous engagement with society and through better promotion, in this case materialized in a series of Smart Talks.