Image: Sybil Coovi Handemagnon : Comme tous ces atomes hurlants qui dévorent les chairs, HD film (colour, sound, 15' 19"), 2024 (Film Still).

Au seuil de la conservation, Paris (On the Edges of Conservation)

What can be conserved, and how? Conservation-restoration, as a museum-related discipline, has undergone significant changes in recent decades. This field increasingly incorporates environmentally responsible approaches and seeks to represent communities in decision-making processes. While a plurality of practices and perspectives coexist, many challenges remain.

Following an introduction to the themes explored in the two issues edited by Lotte Arndt and Noémie Etienne, the event will unfold in two parts: a conversation among heritage specialists and a session with artists.

Event Info

📍 INHA, Galerie Colbert, Demargne Room, 2 Rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris

📅 5 June 2025, 2:00–5:00 PM

No registration required.

Programme

2:00–2:30 PM
Introduction and presentation of the issues
Lotte Arndt and Noémie Etienne

2:30–3:30 PM
Conversation
Yaëlle Biro, Delphine Burlot, Deborah Dubald
Moderated by Noémie Etienne

3:30–4:00 PM
Break

4:00–5:00 PM
Diasporic Transmissions and Artistic Interventions
Sybil Coovi Handemagnon and Emmanuelle Nsunda
Moderated by Lotte Arndt

Concept and Coordination: Lotte Arndt (HiCSA, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) and Noémie Etienne (Heritage Studies Vienna, University of Vienna, Austria).

Related Publications:
Contested Conservation. Museums & Social Issues, Vol. 17, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymsi20/17/1-2

On the Threshold of Conservation, Troubles dans les collections, no. 7, 2024
https://troublesdanslescollections.fr/numeros/contested-conservation/