Call for participation!
Deadline: 28th March 2025
Students and early career conservators (2 years post-graduation) of all disciplines - paintings, paper, textiles, sculpture, time-based media etc. are invited to present in the fifth INCCA Student Café, focusing the challenges of contemporary materials in the conservation of contemporary art.
The Café will consist of up to 5 speakers, each of which will have 5 minutes to outline their research. All research projects are welcome, including PhDs, masters, or case studies completed during a work placement/internship. Presentations could focus on novel adaptations of preexisting conservation treatments, methods or equipment, new conservation materials and new ways to use them, or how a treatment had to be adapted for a complex and challenging contemporary artwork. Presentations can be in any format.
After all presentations, speakers and participants are invited to join an open and honest discussion about the topics. Professionals and students from all disciplines and career stages are welcome to sign up to listen to the presentations and take part in the discussion.
We hope this Café will provide a platform for early career conservators to meet new INCCA members and other professionals in their field and get more involved with INCCA in the future. Presenting your project could lead to exciting collaboration opportunities or even to a subsequent individual INCCA talk. Please fill in the participation request form by 28th March 2025, including your presentation topic/abstract, a short bio and 1-2 project images with credits.
Please contact info@incca.org for any questions.
The INCCA Student Café pt.5 will be hosted online via Zoom on 5th June 2025, 4pm CEST (Amsterdam 4pm / London 3pm / Gweru 4pm / Seoul 11pm / Mexico City 8am / LA 7am) and will not be recorded.
Check out the previous INCCA Cafés here.
Image: AI-generated image by DeepAI. 'a view in the microscopic glass there's a contemporary art painting. be colourful, be abstract', 2025.