dr Vivian van Saaze

postdoctoral researcher

Vivian van Saaze holds a postdoctoral research position at the faculty of arts and social sciences. She completed her PhD, entitled Doing Artworks. A Study into the Presentation and Conservation of Installation Artworks at Maastricht University and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (now part of the Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency) in 2009. Her current research extends from her PhD research and further explores museum practices of contemporary art conservation by analyzing the relationship between knowledge transfer and procedures of documentation in the re-execution of contemporary artworks with a focus on installation and performance based art. She was program committe member of the international symposium Contemporary Art: Who Cares? (Amsterdam, June 2010), co-organiser of ‘Artful Encounters' a two-days symposium on Art, Ethnography and Conservation (Maastricht, November 2010), and founder of the International Network for Ph.D. Researchers and Postdoctoral Researchers in the Field of Contemporary Art Conservation (see links). 

Vivian van Saaze is co-ordinator of the BA course Research Skills in Media Cultural and supervises students' papers, theses and internships from the BA Arts and Culture, the MA Arts and Heritage, as well as the MA Media Culture on topics related to museum studies, and (preservation of) contemporary art. 

Keywords

Museum studies, conservation theory, presentation and preservation of contemporary art, installation art, new media art.