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Vivian van Saaze (V.E.J.P.)

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Dr. Vivian van Saaze is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. In this capacity she is currently Director of the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) and Programme Director of the Master Arts and Heritage: Policy, Management and Education.

She specialises in the study of museum practices of curating and conservation, focusing on the challenges arising from digitalisation and new artistic genres such as installation art, digital art, and performance art by integrating theories and methods from ethnography, museum studies, and Science and Technology Studies. 

 

Research projects
  • 2018-2021

Terra Mosana, enhancing digital heritage in the euregiois being executed within the context of Interreg V-A Euregion MeuseRhine, and is financed by the European Regional Development Fund, the Walloon Region, the Provinces of Limburg (NL and B) and the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia: www.terramosana.org

 

  • 2014-2019

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art(NACCA), funded by the European Union H2020 Programme (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014) under Grant Agreement n°642892: www.nacca.eu

 

  • 2012-2014

Collecting the Performative: A research network examining emerging practice for collecting and conserving performance-based art(CtP) funded by NWO and AHRC: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/collecting-performative

 

  • 2012-2014

Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art Research(NeCCAR) funded bij NWO: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/neccar-network-conservation-contemporary-art-research

 

  • 2009-2015

New Strategies in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NewS) funded by NWO: https://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/research-projects/i/05/4905.html

 

  • 2008-2010

Inside Movement Knowledge(IMK) funded by RAAK: http://insidemovementknowledge.net

 

  • 2004-2007

Inside Installations funded by the European Union: http://www.inside-installations.org/home/index.php

 

Key publications
van Saaze, V. E. J. P. (2013). Installation Art and the Museum. Presentation and Conservation of Changing Artworks. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.26530/oapen_449202
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van Saaze, V., Wharton, G., & Reisman, L. (2018). Adaptive Institutional Change: Managing Digital Works at the Museum of Modern Art. Museum & Society, 16(2), 220-239. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v16i2.2774
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Laurenson, P., & van Saaze, V. E. J. P. (2014). Collecting Performance-based Art: New Challenges and Shifting Perspectives. In O. Remes (Ed.), Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters (pp. 27-41). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0561-6/13
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van Saaze, V. E. J. P. (2015). In the absence of documentation. Remembering Tino Sehgal's constructed situations. Revista de História da Arte, 4, 55-63. http://revistaharte.fcsh.unl.pt/rhaw4/RHAw4.pdf
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