On Sustainable Substance
Art Switch virtual conference series is returning with a fourth edition on Friday, July 9th from 4 - 7pm CET, 10 am - 1:30pm EDT. In this specially curated session we have invited speakers on the topic of new materials and new-uses of known materials to explore how we can shift to a more environmentally and socially friendly ethos within the arts.
Topics include: the fabric and implementation of future materials; case studies from a database featuring the life cycle assessment of materials; the structural adaptation of new research and material guidelines in the arts sector; and what the arts sector can learn from other fields and their materials.
This conference is part of a virtual conference series [re]Framing the Arts: A Sustainable Shift organized in collaboration with the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Nyenrode Business University.
Moderator
Annemartine van Kesteren is a curator, design consultant and writer based in Rotterdam. As Curator Design and City Collection at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, she is responsible for the collection of contemporary design and the design program ‘change the system’. Trained as an Industrial Design engineer she worked several years for the global strategic design team of Philips Design. She is evenly fascinated by the cultural richness of the past and the embedded knowledge of the craft tradition, as the artistic expression of art and design as a changemaker in society.
Annemartine van Kesteren, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Speakers
Andrea Trimarchi & Simone Farresin, Formafantasma
The Synthetic Collective is an interdisciplinary collaboration between visual artists, cultural workers, and scientists. We work together to sample, map, understand, and visualize the complex ways in which plastics and microplastics pollute the Great Lakes region. We locate our inquiries at the intersection of plastics pollution, geologic processes, and artistic production. Our intent is to follow plastics through from manufacture and consumption to disposal and disaggregation. Interdisciplinarity is crucial to our research methodology – we are led by a driving principle that artists and scientists conduct research together from the outset of the inquiry. As such, we hope to better connect scientific knowledge with arts-based research, and enrich artistic production with informed science.
The Synthetic Collective is Kirsty Robertson, Tegan Moore, Kelly Wood, Heather Davis, Kelly Jazvac, Patricia Corcoran, Ian Arturo, Sara Belontz, Lorena Rios Mendoza, and Kathleen Hill. www.syntheticcollective.org
The Synthetic Collective
Alexia de Lecaros Hemmons, UNIQA Österreich Versicherungen AG
Ellen Schindler, De Zwarte Hond
Cecilia Winter, Conservator & Consultant to Getty Conservation Institute
Sarah Sutton is Principal of Sustainable Museums, a consultancy for cultural organizations pursuing climate action. The consultancy manages the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, a grant program supporting energy efficiency and clean energy projects at visual arts institutions; it is funded by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
Sarah is the Cultural Sector Lead for America is All In, the US subnational actors supporting the Paris Agreement, and on the Climate Task Force for the American Psychological Association. She is a co-author of two editions of The Green Museum (as Sarah Brophy) and author of Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites & Museums.
Sarah Sutton, Sustainable Museums
Sinus Lynge, EFFEKT
Eric Klarenbeek, Klarenbeek & Dros
Dr. Sandra Kisters has been Head of Collections and Research of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen since 2015. She is closely involved in the realisation of the Depot. Previously she taught art history at Utrecht University, Radboud University and VU University.
Dr. Sandra Kisters, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Fritz Dietl, President and Founder of Dietl International (a div. of Rock-it Cargo USA), started a lengthy career in art storage and logistics as an apprentice in Vienna at Kunsttrans, the premier art-handling service provider for museums, galleries and collectors in Austria. He mastered all aspects of the trade during his tenure there, from truck driving, to wrapping and packing invaluable and unique works of art, and coordinating global art logistics services while negotiating complex customs and tax procedures.
After moving to New York in 1988, he started Dietl International Services in 1991, which he leads to this day. An International Freight forwarder with in-house customs brokerage, Dietl International maintains the highest level of service in the industry. What began as a small, two-person office at JFK airport in New York has become the largest logistics provider in the United States devoted entirely and purely to the special needs and requirements of shipping artwork. With eight locations throughout the United States, Dietl International now has more than 95 employees dedicated to the safe transportation and handling of valuable works of art.
Fritz Dietl, Dietl International
Sarah Nunberg is an objects conservator in private practice in Brooklyn, NY and teaches materials degradation at Pratt Institute. Besides for treatment of organic and inorganic materials, she focuses much of her work learning how to adapt her practice and to help others learn to change their work habits using LCA. She holds a MA in Art History and a Certificate in Conservation from NYU Institue of Fine Arts and a MA in Archaeology from Yale University.
Sarah Nunberg, Conservator & Pratt Institute
The conference is organized with the support of Samuel Anderson Architects and Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture.
