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ART IN CONFLICT
ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONS OF WAR

A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE CO-HOSTED BY ENGLISH HERITAGE & LONDON COLLEGE OF
FASHION

TO COINCIDE WITH THE LAUNCH OF AN ENGLISH HERITAGE ADVICE NOTE: MILITARY
WALL ART: GUIDELINES ON SIGNFICANCE, CONSERVATATION AND MANAGEMENT

Art and archaeology have become increasingly close in recent years.
Artists have continued to draw inspiration from the material world, but
archaeologists have developed interest in how that material world can be
represented and interpreted through contemporary art alongside other more
conventional means. Archaeology and the art of war is an area where such
interactions are increasingly close, with leading artists and
archaeologists working across traditional boundaries, at and beyond the
front-lines of their respective disciplines. This conference explores these
relationships and interactions. The morning session examines the
archaeology of war art, and what archaeologists can learn from artistic
representation; how it can be interpreted; and what it means. The
afternoon sees a switch of emphasis, focusing on artists who have used the
material culture of war as their inspiration. What does the materiality
of war mean to them? How and why does this material culture matter?

A
final contribution from Colin Renfrew will draw these two worlds back
together, assessing the contributions each make to the other, and drawing
strength from such trans-disciplinary (ad)ventures.

PROGRAMME
10.00 – 10.10 Introduction - John Schofield and Lucy Orta
10.10 – 10.40 Wall art: archaeological context and overview - Roger J C
Thomas
10.40 – 11.10 Battling decay - approaches to the conservation of military
wall art - Robert Gowing and John Burbidge

11.10 – 11.30 COFFEE

11.30 – 12.00 Red Army graffiti in Berlin’s Reichstag - Peter Lemburg
12.00 – 12.30 Archaeology of the Troubles: murals in Northern Ireland -
Neil Jarman
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH

14.00 – 14.30 Spadeadam - Louise K Wilson
14.30 – 15.00 Cood Bay Forst Zinna - Angus Boulton
15.00 – 15.30 ‘If you’re ever in the area …’: art and military
installations at East Lane, Bawdsey, Suffolk - Bettina Furnée

15.30 – 15.50 TEA

15.50 – 16.20 M.I.U. (Mobile Intervention Units) and selected installation-
based work - Lucy Orta
16.20 – 16.40 War art and the archaeology of war - Colin Renfrew
16.40 – 17.00 DISCUSSION
17.00 Depart

Conference flyer:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/CONTEMP-HIST-ARCH/artinconflict.pdf

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