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The Plastic Bag as Art: Three case studies on the treatment of clear, flexible plastic sheeting in contemporary art
As the world races to ban the plastic bag, its use in art as a reclaimed and repurposed material is still very prominent. Treatment options for clear plastic bags, film and sheeting, primarily composed of various densities of polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, and ethylene vinyl acetate are not yet codified in the care and conservation of contemporary art materials. Experimental methods are often necessary to achieve conservation goals set by artists, institutions, or the artwork itself. Through the lens of three case studies, both interventive and non-interventive treatment options for different polymer compositions used to make clear plastic bags will be discussed
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Plastics in Peril: Focus on conservation of polymeric materials in cultural heritage
‘Plastics in Peril’ was originally planned by University of Cambridge Museums as an in-person conference to be held in March 2020 in Cambridge, UK. The global pandemic threw all plans out of the window and we found ourselves stuck at home in lockdown. The future of the meeting was very uncertain when the Leibniz Association of Research Museums in Germany contacted the Cambridge organisers to discuss their own plans for a conference on plastics conservation. In short, we decided to work together to host an online conference blending contributions from both meetings. This volume contains the 13 papers selected for the original in-person Cambridge conference, and they reflect many of the themes that came out in the wider joint meeting