Challenges with Conserving Contemporary Art

This panel lecture addresses the conservation challenges facing contemporary art's tricky materials, from chewing gum to dust. Gloria Valderia and Michelle Impey join Renée Vara to discuss these obstacles in today's art world.

Input #5 Blockhouse: Art and Crisis

ICI and INPUT Journal are pleased to announce a panel discussion on the occasion of the book release for INPUT #5: Blockhouse (Winter 2013). Under the curation of guest creative director Avelino Sala, “Blockhouse”—as a metaphor for a bunker—explores the capacity of artists to confront crisis, and to question the symbolic function of art and the role of creation during a critical moment of metaphorical entrenchment.