• What: The 6th annual conference of the Asia Pacific Tropical Climate Conservation Art Research Network
• When: 3-5 July 2023
• Where: Ubud (2-3 July); Denpasar (4-5 July)
• Register: here

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

The face-to-face forum will centre on materiality and living heritage in the tropics – examining 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 aims to engender deep listening, sharing, and participation across 7 sites over 3 days.

Program

From 3, 4, 5 July 2023, they will come together to reflect 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

Click here to read more and register.

Feature image: Photo by Patrick Craig on Unsplash