APTCCARN 6

Creative conservation initiatives: Collective approaches for material culture and living heritage

3, 4, 5 July 2023

Thank you for joining APTCCARN6 with over 80 participants from 9 countries.

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OVERVIEW

This year APTCCARN, Institut Konservasi and the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation gathered together to reconnect again and share creative conservation initiatives and ‘learned’ practices drawn from the tropics. From museums and memory sites in Bali, Indonesia, conservation and heritage professionals from the Indo-Pacific region gathered with practitioners in Indonesia- including professional heritage and museum workers, artists, makers, knowledge holders, collectors - to engage, exchange and create conservation initiatives.

Our face-to-face forum centred on materiality and living heritage in the tropics - examined modes of making and documentation, place-based approaches to heritage and conservation, and the knowledge ecologies for conservation in the tropics. The three-day event engendered deep listening, sharing, and participation across 7 sites over 3 days.

APTCCARN6 was our sixth meeting with previous five meetings in Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines. APTCCARN6 celebrates the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation’s 20th Year Anniversary as an academic centre. The Grimwade Centre is a founding member of APTCCARN.

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PROGRAM

From 3, 4, 5 July 2023, we reflected on:

• Heritage and sustainable conservation: what knowledge ecologies to translate

• Traditional & contemporary Balinese art: creative knowledge ecologies and conservation

• Why, whom and how tradition met modernity in the tropics

• Reflections on collective creative initiatives, conservation practice and living heritage

• Optional additional one day on 6 July in the East of Bali

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Since 2008, APTCCARN (Asia Pacific Tropical Climate Conservation Art Research Network) as a globally connected collective, has been engaged with what conservation knowledge and skills respond to museums and collections in the region, while acknowledging the scholarly origins of heritage conservation.

Institut Konservasi as an emerging conservation collective in Indonesia, engages with culture and heritage on their own terms drawn from lived professional experience.

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