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DESCRIPTION:Curators on Curating goes behind the scenes of upcoming BGC exh
 ibitions to give a window into the curatorial process. We invite you to th
 ink with us about exhibition making\, material histories\, and storytellin
 g. In this presentation\, Soon Kai Poh\, the Conservation as a Human Scien
 ce Fellow at BGC\, will introduce Conserving Active Matter\, an exhibition
  that explores the practice of conservation as seen through the lens of ma
 tter’s activity.  The objects in the exhibition span five continents and r
 ange in time from the Paleolithic to the present. Conserving Active Matter
  considers the many ways in which objects are active and envisions an expa
 nded role for conservation in their care\, now and in the future.  The exh
 ibition is scheduled to open in the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in the sp
 ring of 2022 and is the culmination of a ten-year project supported by the
  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create new pathways for exchange and intel
 lectual mingling between conservation and the human sciences. Meet the Spe
 akersPeter N. Miller is dean and professor of cultural history at the Bard
  Graduate Center in New York City. He is the author of a series of books o
 n the early seventeenth-century antiquarian\, Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc\, o
 n the history of antiquarianism in Europe\, and on early modern European c
 ultural history. His main interest is in how and why we do research on the
  past\, whether it is done by professional historians or by curators\, con
 servators\, and artists. In 2019\, with a MacArthur X Grant he organized a
  series of panel discussions under the title What is Research?. Those disc
 ussions have been collected in a book just published by BGC. He has been a
 t Bard since 2001.  As dean his main activity has been elaborating a new v
 ision of object-centered humanities graduate education that emerges from t
 he institution’s research horizon. He previously taught at the University 
 of Cambridge\, University of Chicago\, and University of Maryland\, Colleg
 e Park. He was a research fellow at the Warburg Institute\, University of 
 London\, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Institute for Advanced St
 udy\, and has been a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en 
 Sciences Sociales in Marseille. Soon Kai Poh is the current Conservation a
 s a Human Science Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center. He is a graduate of 
 the Conservation Center\, Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University\, s
 pecializing in objects conservation with a particular interest in Asian an
 d Near Eastern works of art. His professional interests include the interp
 retive and technological implications of material culture arising from tra
 ns-geographical interactions and theory and practice in conservation\, par
 ticularly in reconsidering the relationship between the conservator and th
 e things under their care\, as definitions of the former and latter contin
 ue to shift and broaden. He has worked on projects and completed internshi
 ps at the conservation labs of the Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Muse
 um\, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery\, the Peabody 
 Essex Museum\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Lib
 rary at NYU\, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Other Presentations in t
 he Series:Curators on Curating: “A Map is Not the Territory”: Unsettling t
 he Curatorial Voice in Shaped by The Loom May 13\, 202112 – 1:30 pmCurator
 s on Curating: Threads of Power June 10\, 202112 – 1:30 pm
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Curators on Curating
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