Invited Speakers
PAULA GASSMANN
Institute for Conservation-Restoration, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
"Towards the Understanding of PVC and Minced Mutton Meat - the Ageing Behaviour in an Artwork by Dieter Roth"
INA JESSEN
Dieter Roth Hamburg Foundation, Germany
"The Mold Museum (1991-2004) by Dieter Roth. The culmination of material-specific processes in architectural and work-immanent transformation"
ELENA GÓMEZ SÁNCHEZ
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen, Bochum, Germany
"Identifying, prioritizing, preventing. How can Conservation Science contribute to the situation of plastics in museums? Examples from the Material Science Department of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum"
YVONNE SHASHOUA
Environmental Archaeology and Materials Science, National Museum of Denmark, Denmark
"The Legacy of the Plastics Age - how long plastics take to degrade, the major factors, how we can measure and scientifically quantify their degradation and techniques to slow the processes"
TJASA RIAVEC & MATIJA STRLIC
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Slovenia
"PVC: Modelling of Decay Processes for Improved Preventive Conservation"
MARIA LÖRZEL
LVR-Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Amt für Denkmalpflege, Pullheim, Germany
"Plastics and Conservation Ethics using the example of the Transparent Figures"
CLAARTJE VAN HAAFTEN
Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), Berlin, Germany
"Plastics. We Think We Know Them, But Do We Really?"
SONJA ALHÄUSER
Artist, Germany
"The Never-ending Work: Material Transformation in Drawings and Sculptures"