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Vivian van Saaze
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Welcome to the fourteenth newsletter of the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH). MACCH is a transdisciplinary research centre that brings together economic, legal, (art) historical, philosophical, sociological and practical expertise in the fields of arts, culture and heritage.
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Research network LACUNAE: LAsting Legacies: Contemporary Artists’ Estates Between PUblic Heritage and Private INheritAncE
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Christoph Rausch
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The death of the generation of visual artists living and working in Europe who redefined art practice in the latter part of the 20th century is imminent. These artists engaged with innovative forms of artistic practice such as performance and time-based media, leaving behind a significant material and immaterial heritage. Many contemporary artists individually and collectively developed practices that sought to question conceptions and structures of authority, power and identity.
These artists often problematised the dominant politics, technologies and ethics of collecting, classifying and archiving artworks, thereby also fundamentally challenging public and private institutions in the preservation of art and cultural heritage. Frequently, such challenges result in a failure of these public and private institutions to engage with contemporary artists’ estates. This is further compounded in the case of BIPOC, LGBTQI+ and women artists, where we see a history of systematic marginalisation and denial of their artistic legacies by established museums and the art market.
The problem of an underrepresentation of these marginalised artists is confirmed by internal audits in major art institutions and has been put in the spotlight by social movements such as Black Lives Matter. Artists working in ephemeral media are particularly at risk of marginalisation and thus face a double exclusion and neglect.
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New Commissioned Research Project on Cultural Education for Joop de Jong
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Joop de Jong
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Cultural education is part of the curriculum of primary schools in the Netherlands. Cultural education programmes receive funding from various governments and the Cultural Participation Fund (Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie). Cultural Education with Quality (Cultuureducatie met Kwaliteit) is the most commonly used programme. Periodic evaluation is one of the conditions for receiving public funding. For this purpose, a digital evaluation tool called Evi2.0 has been developed. MACCH affiliated researcher Joop de Jong has been asked to conduct the periodic analysis (2022 and 2024) of the Evi2.0 results in Limburg.
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20 May 2022: Impossible stories: Linking Colonial Collections and Climate Change Through Critical Fabulation
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Christian Ernsten
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This seminar is centrally about the re-imagination of colonial collections through the lens of the Anthropocene. Colonial conquests and the exploitation of beings, species and territories in Africa, Asia or Latin America result from and produced intimate nature-culture relations. Researchers, curators as well as artists and designers, and also students, exchange about how to tell stories about these colonial encounters in relation to the contemporary climate change urgency.
The seminar will take place on 20 May 2022 at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, in the context of the exhibition ‘In Search of the Pluriverse’.
For more information please visit the website.
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29 - 30 June – 1 July 2022: International Conference ‘The Meuse: Past, Present and Future of the Limburg Riverscape’
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Christian Ernsten & Nico Randeraad
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This three-day Dutch-Belgian conference about the riverscape of the Meuse in Limburg focuses on changing relationships between man and the river from prehistory to today. It is organised around a series of short presentations by specialists, field excursions and networking opportunities.
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30 June 2022 Symposium: Archival Interactions: Performing Intersectional Counter-Archives
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Eliza Steinbock
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On 30 June 2022, MACCH affiliated researcher Eliza Steinbock will organize a closing symposium for the expert meet-up series "Archival Interactions: Artists and Archivists for Intersectional Research”. The closing symposium will focus particularly on dimensions of performance and performativity in archival interactions.
Event date: Thursday, 30 June 2022 Location: DAS Research, Academy for Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts in Amsterdam Noord Organized by: Eliza Steinbock, Associate Professor of Gender and Diversity, Maastricht University, together with Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Lector at Amsterdam University of the Arts, and supported by Wayne Modest, Director of Content at the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and founder of the Research Centre for Material Culture.
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27 January 2022: Donna Yates Gave a Keynote Presentation at UNESCO/EU Workshop
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Diana Berzina
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MACCH affiliated researcher Donna Yates and Neil Brodie gave a keynote presentation titled ‘Money Laundering and Antiquities’ at UNESCO/EU Workshop on the Role of the Financial Sector in the Fight against Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property, which took place online on 27 January 2022.
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Vanessa Tünsmeyer Publishes Book 'Repatriation of Sacred Indigenous Cultural Heritage and the Law: Lessons from the United States and Canada
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Vanessa Tünsmeyer
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In the Springer Book Series 'Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market', this book examines the ways in which law can be used to structure the return of indigenous sacred cultural heritage to indigenous communities, referred to as repatriation in this volume. In particular, it aims at developing legal structures that align repatriation with contemporary international human rights standards.
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Donna Yates and Naomi Oosterman Publish Book ‘Crime and Art - Sociological and Criminological Perspectives of Crimes in the Art World’
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Donna Yates
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In the Springer Book Series 'Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market', this volume brings together work by authors who draw upon sociological and criminological methods, theory, and frameworks, to produce research that pushes boundaries, considers new questions, and reshape the existing understanding of "art crimes", with a strong emphasis on methodological innovation and novel theory application.
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Christian Ernsten Publishes Book: 'Colonial Heritage and Urban Transformation in the Global South - Excavating the Ruins of Cape Town's Rebirth'
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Christian Ernsten
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This book traces and analyses the role of heritage in the urban transformation of the city of Cape Town. By looking at discourses of heritage and urban design, the book shows how Cape Town positions itself as an emerging global city in the context of a series of global events.
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The Maastricht Experimental Research In and Through the Arts Network (MERIAN) Has Launched Her Website.
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Karoly Molina / Christian Ernsten
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MERIAN is an environment in which selected PhD candidates from all artistic and academic disciplines can pursue Maastricht-style artistic research. They engage in innovative styles of research, utilising the powers and fragilities of artistic and scientific practices. MERIAN is a collaboration between arts education at Zuyd Hogeschool, Maastricht University and the Jan van Eyck Academie.
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Conservation Project of a Unique Polychrome Sculpture Completed
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Julie Fassbender
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The extensive conservation project on the 500-year-old polychrome crucifix by Maastricht sculptor Jan van Steffeswert (1460-1530) was completed in February 2022. MACCH partner SRAL (Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg) was commissioned by the Bonnefanten to research the presence of presumed original paint under multiple layers of overpaint and to carry out full conservation treatment. Led by Arnold Truyen (senior conservator), the SRAL team worked carefully for more than five years to remove layers of overpaint and to restore the original polychromy.
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Three Podcasts by Terra Mosana: A Multilingual Journey Through the Euregio Meuse-Rhine
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Vivian van Saaze
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In a three-part podcast, two young people from Dutch Limburg are looking for answers to questions related to the future and origin of multilingualism in their homeland: the Euregio Meuse-Rhine.
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Pip Laurenson Joining University College London
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Pip Laurenson
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MACCH affiliated researcher Pip Laurenson will be joining the History of Art Department at University College London from July 2022 as Professor of Conservation and Director of the new MSc in Conservation of Contemporary Art & Media.
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Introducing New Member: Mareike Opena
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Mareike Opena
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Mareike Opeña has joined MACCH as an external PhD candidate with a project focusing on decision-making processes in conservation for the contemporary art market. Her research is predominantly located in New York City, where she has lived and worked in private practice conservation for the past decade.
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MACCH is a joint effort of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Law, the School of Business and Economics, the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Social Historical Centre Limburg (SHCL), and the Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL).
The newsletter is issued twice a year with information on MACCH activities and other related news. For more information about MACCH, please visit our website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/macch or contact: Vivian van Saaze
MACCH would like to thank the authors for their contributions, as well as: Cindy van Montfoort (production), and Maurice Miac (technical advice).
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