Date and time
-Date: 11 July 2025
Time: 11.00 – 16.00 CET
Venue: Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
We are pleased to invite you to a study day on 11 July 2025 as part of the exhibition Where are all these people going? Conserving, Installing and Experiencing Media Art at the Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U.
The public exhibition presents a test installation of the interactive ‘ambiente sensibile’ Dove va tutta 'sta gente? (Where are all these people going?). This installation is part of the ongoing research project Legacies of Artists’ Studios (LAS): Sharing and Archiving Embodied Knowledge for the Conservation of Technology-Based Artworks (2024–2027).
On 11 July, the artist collective Studio Azzurro and the interdisciplinary LAS project team will be present from 11 am to 4 pm to reflect and discuss questions and hurdles we have encountered along the way of re-installing a work that has been in storage for twenty-five years. How exactly does the interactivity work? Which central characteristics of the work need to be preserved? How can necessary practical skills be transmitted to install the work?
This is the second event we are organizing, after How do you do it? Transmitting Embodied Knowledge across Generations in Contemporary Art Conservation, an international symposium held at HAWK Hildesheim. Towards the end of the three-year research project Legacies of Artists’ Studios we plan to get together with you again to present our findings during a conference held on the topic, taking place at TH Köln.
No formal registration is required, but we would much appreciate if you could inform us whether you will be joining us.
The LAS project team