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{"title":"A Whiter Shade of Pale: A Case-Study in Treating Water-Damaged Textiles in Contemporary Art","authors":"Rosie H Cook, Ioseba I. Soraluze, Lu Chien-Hua","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2019.1704382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2019.1704382","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the treatment of a group of large-scale raw canvas artworks, which required conservation treatment to reduce extensive tidelines and staining caused by flooding. For these conce...","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2019.1704382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43296053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"A. Hamilton","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2019.1680174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2019.1680174","url":null,"abstract":"Volume . of the AICCM Bulletin is dedicated to the proceedings of the th AICCM Book, Paper & Photographic Materials Symposium, which took place from  to  November  at Melbourne Museum, Museums Victoria, Australia. It was the vision of the Organising Committee that the symposium would provide a forum to learn, reflect, share and connect. We wanted not only to disseminate new information and ideas within the conservation community, but to promote interdisciplinary research, encourage reflection on our treatment and preservation approaches, and to consider how the world around us affects our decisions. This volume presents a selection of papers and keynote addresses that clearly represent this vision. In particular, these papers are united by their focus on unfamiliar, uncharted or challenging territory that asks the authors and readers alike to reconsider traditional approaches. The first two papers demonstrate the criticality of understanding the historical, material and social interests of the collections in our care, to ensure their appropriate long-term preservation and to inform treatment decisions. In particular, they remind us that it’s the responsibility of the conservator to ‘know when we don’t know’ and to seek out the appropriate resources or advice. In Keppel’s paper, Nineteenth-century Islamic Manuscripts and Printed Books: Revisiting a Survey of the Michael Abbott Collection, State Library Victoria, specialist knowledge was sought for a collection that had lost proximity to the communities that could best interpret and maintain its cultural meaning. A collection survey of Qur’ans and religious texts undertaken in  is re-examined in light of new skills learned during an Islamic Bookbinding workshop presented at the Islamic Arts Museum ofMalaysia. Revisiting the survey in  identified previously overlooked structural features and provided a crucial frame of reference, giving original observations greater depth and meaning. In Murphy’s paper, Art on Paper / Variable Installation: Sara Hughes’ Torpedo at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, traditional conservation approaches are found to be at odds with the variable nature of contemporary art. The author considers the issues of originality, authenticity and variability posed by contemporary art on paper installations through the examination of Torpedo by Sara Hughes. In this case, close collaboration with the artist and systematic documentation processes resulted in a conservation and display approach that ensures the care and maintenance of the physical object, while also embracing the work’s inherent variability. The next two papers demonstrate that sometimes it is the conservator’s role to be intrepid and make the best decisions possible with the information at hand—even if that means embarking on a complex treatment without precedence in the conservation literature, or to strike out and generate that research ourselves. In each instance, these papers aim to ensure ","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"40 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2019.1680174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41477132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Limbo to Mashup and the Spell of the Fake: Relating contemporary photographic practice and the photographic archive through a framework of Material Engagement Theory","authors":"A. Hazewinkel","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2019.1684019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2019.1684019","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, Cognitive Archaeology’s Material Engagement Theory is engaged as a means to consider some of the current material interests and the social dimension of contemporary photographic practice in relation to photographic archives. First the social fabric at the foundation of the John Marshall Photographic Collection and the research methods and working practices of its founder are described. Then, three contemporary photo-mediated artworks, whose inception lies with archival material from the John Marshall Photographic Collection held at The British School at Rome, are discussed through a framework of MET’s three working hypotheses. These are the hypothesis of the extended mind, the hypothesis of enactive signification and the hypothesis of material agency. By drawing together the current material and social interests of contemporary photographic practice with MET, in specific relation to archival photographic material, this paper aims to shed new light on some of the diverse ways in which contemporary photographic practitioners are engaging with photographic archives. Presented here is a preliminary introduction of contemporary photographic practice to the practical applications of MET’s three working hypotheses, so that those in the field of cultural materials conservation may be able to consider its application in their own practice-based activity and discourse.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"40 1","pages":"60 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2019.1684019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42266548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Characterisation and deterioration of mineral papers","authors":"Chen Chau Chu, P. Nel","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2019.1672951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2019.1672951","url":null,"abstract":"Mineral paper, also known as rich mineral paper, is a paper-like material manufactured from calcium carbonate with a small amount of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), instead of traditional cellulose-based fibres. For environmental reasons, mineral paper was designed to degrade when exposed to sunlight. It was the aim of this study to address the research gap in conservation literature describing the properties and degradation patterns of mineral paper. Three mineral paper samples were characterised using visual examination techniques and analysed using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with attenuated total reflectance (ATR-FTIR) and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS). Calcium carbonate, talc, kaolin, high-density polyethylene and an unknown trace material(s) were identified in these mineral papers. Under accelerated ageing conditions, the mineral paper samples consistently demonstrated a higher rate of chemical and physical degradation compared to a cellulose paper standard when exposed to visible light and ultraviolet radiation. Through this study, a greater understanding was obtained of mineral paper composition, its ageing trajectory, and its response to environmental factors. Further research is required to identify the unknown trace element(s) and whether photo-sensitive additives are present. These results should help to inform the identification, storage, display and treatment of mineral paper-based collections.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"40 1","pages":"37 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2019.1672951","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41993016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Polar Explorer in Insanity’s Archives: Transmitting the Story of Antarctic Wireless Operator Sidney Jeffryes","authors":"E. Leane","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2019.1672942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2019.1672942","url":null,"abstract":"This article recounts the author’s journey through polar and asylum archives in order to tell the story of a forgotten Antarctic expeditioner. A radio operator for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14, Sidney Jeffryes was a pioneer of Antarctic telecommunications, making two-way wireless contact between the continent and the rest of the world for the first time. However, his mental illness during and after the expedition saw him institutionalised and marginalised from Australian Antarctic exploration history. Telling Jeffryes’ story challenges the way we remember Australian achievement in the Antarctic, but piecing this story together is far from straightforward. With published accounts often eliding his achievements or repeating century-old misstatements, documents preserved in archives become key witnesses to his experience. Dispersed, faded, often illegible, and swamped by the masses of irrelevant documents surrounding them, these feel like the noisy signals that Jeffryes decoded in the Antarctic. In attempting to transmit Jeffryes’ story, this article also tells the story of deciphering his messages from the past. For the conservator, the important lesson is that the material documents held in the archives, although at times messy and frustrating, enabled this retelling. Indeed, this messiness was an integral part of their message.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"40 1","pages":"50 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2019.1672942","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46521590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Art on Paper/Variable Installation: Sara Hughes’ Torpedo at the Art Gallery of New South Wales","authors":"Carolyn Murphy","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2019.1680030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2019.1680030","url":null,"abstract":"Acquired in 2015, Sara Hughes’ Torpedo in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) is a wall installation comprised of hundreds of painted and hand-stencilled paper clothing tags. During preparation for the exhibition, Out of the Ordinary in 2017, the variable nature of the work became apparent. The artist indicated that the work could be installed with different dimensions, requiring more or less clothing tags, consequently changing the presentation of the work. This variability has been negotiated between the artist and relevant stakeholders each time and it is expected that the work will continue to change for future iterations depending on the display context. There are increasing numbers of artworks in the AGNSW collection that are fixed in their material elements and yet variable in their display potential, prompting the need to review the care and management of these works. There have been few discussions in the conservation literature that consider issues associated with the fixity, variability and changeability of art on paper installations. This paper contributes to this literature by considering Sara Hughes’ Torpedo in some detail, focusing on its relationship with these different states and how this relates to concepts such as originality and authenticity.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"40 1","pages":"16 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2019.1680030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47911047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conservation of the 58th Battalion Book of Remembrance","authors":"L. Melzer, Peter Mitchelson, D. Woodward","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2019.1680031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2019.1680031","url":null,"abstract":"The salvage and conservation of the 58th Battalion Book of Remembrance is an interesting and important case study of the treatment of a fire-damaged and waterlogged parchment volume. The treatment presented a series of complex conservation problems, which were complicated by the time-sensitive nature of the disaster response, the limited experience of the conservators with similar items, and the scant published material dealing with similar circumstances. These problems were resolved using approaches that may be suitable for broader application to the treatment of flood-affected parchment. Importantly, this case study shows that freezing is an appropriate method for the immediate salvage of waterlogged parchment and allows time for drying to be carried out in a controlled manner sympathetic to its specific material properties.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"40 1","pages":"29 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2019.1680031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46144317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nineteenth-century Islamic Manuscripts and Printed Books: Revisiting a survey of the Michael Abbott Collection, State Library Victoria","authors":"E. Keppel","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2019.1672950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2019.1672950","url":null,"abstract":"The Michael Abbott Collection of Islamic manuscripts and printed books was donated to State Library Victoria (SLV) in 2012 and comprises Qur’ans and religious texts. An initial collection survey in 2014 documented a variety of materials and techniques, but also highlighted challenges in describing Islamic bindings using existing bookbinding terminology. The Michael Abbott Collection is unique within the broader SLV collection, which is largely concentrated on the history of Western book production and trade, reflecting the primary cultural background and professional expertise of SLV specialist library and conservation staff. Subsequently, the author attended an Islamic Bookbinding Workshop at the Islamic Arts Museum of Malaysia in July 2017, presented by Dr Karin Scheper, where participants deepened their understanding of binding structures, regional variations and conservation approaches. The workshop has provided a crucial frame of reference for the Michael Abbott Collection, and revealed some Indonesian manuscript traditions, from where the majority of manuscripts originated. Revisiting the survey in 2018 identified previously overlooked structural features that have been reconsidered within the context of the collection. This is a case study of ‘revisitation’ in conservation practice, responding to the challenges of preserving dissociated cultural collections and acquiring knowledge to give original observations greater depth and meaning.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"48 3","pages":"15 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2019.1672950","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41301607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Drawings you can walk on – Mike Parr and the 20th Biennale of Sydney 2016","authors":"Carolyn Murphy, Analiese Treacy","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1507504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1507504","url":null,"abstract":"It would be great if people could walk on the work – that would be interesting. (Parr 2015, pers. comm., 27 October) This paper investigates the multifaceted conservation issues surrounding Mike Parr’s work the side I least like, a set of 164 drawings on cardboard belonging to the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), and its installation in the 20th Biennale of Sydney in 2016. This paper considers the AGNSW’s role in working with the artist to ensure the appropriate display and preservation of these drawings, which for Parr are intentionally unstable (both physically and conceptually) and form part of an ongoing creative project entitled the Self Portrait Project.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"76 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1507504","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42717603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What is the Object? Identifying and describing time-based artworks","authors":"Asti Sherring, Carolyn Murphy, Lisa Catt","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1544341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1544341","url":null,"abstract":"A time-based art (TBA) project team was established at the Art Gallery of New South Wales to undertake research and development, to address significant gaps in collection management practice, which had not kept pace with developments in art practice. This paper describes one key area of work undertaken by the TBA project team: the development of a cataloguing system to identify and describe time-based artworks. The history of the AGNSW TBA collection and collection management practices at AGNSW and other museums were reviewed to assist in identifying the range of practical and theoretical issues that were impacting the decision-making associated with the cataloguing of time-based artworks. Using the information gained from these sources and tested on artwork case studies, a new cataloguing system was developed in consultation with relevant staff. The new cataloguing system, which has been in use since early 2017, has underpinned the broader project, which has encompassed changes across a wide range of collection management practices necessary to facilitate the preservation and display of time-based artworks. Moreover, this system has reset institutional understanding of these works by ensuring that the cataloguing accurately represents the conceptual, physical, digital, electronic and variable elements of TBA works.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"86 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1544341","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48791960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}