Department: Collection Management
Hosts: Alyson Rolington, Head of Collection Management, and Christopher Higgins, Registration Manager
In collaboration with Tate colleagues, Fernanda identified four artworks for in-depth research: Hélio Oiticica‘s Tropicália, Penetrables PN 2 'Purity is a myth' and PN 3 'Imagetical' 1966–7, Juan Downey‘s Video Trans Americas 1976, Oswaldo Maciá‘s Something Going On Above My Head 1999 and Sandra Gamarra‘s LiMac Museum Shop 2005.
Establishing a dialogue between the museums who hold other editions of the four artworks was a key aspect of Fernanda’s research. Collaborating with five museums in Europe, North and South America, led Fernanda to organise four workshops, one for each of the artworks.
Three key areas of value emerged from the research. Firstly, the information contained in the four case studies allowed a much richer understanding of these artworks and will greatly aid their preparation for future display. Secondly, channels were opened to allow continuing conversations with institutions that hold other editions of the artworks. Thirdly, questions generated by the research led to wider conversations around how Tate should deal with editions at the point of acquisition.
Private session of the workshop ‘Pinacoteca and Tate: Collections of time-based media’, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, February 2019. (Photo: Rafael Laterza.)
Biography
Fernanda D’Agostino Dias holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts and a graduate degree in archival management. Fernanda is the Acquisitions Registrar for M+ Museum, Hong Kong, and has worked as the Head of the Collection Management of MASP – Sao Paulo Art Museum (2020–3), manager of Pinacoteca de São Paulo’s collection department (2013–20) and curatorial assistant of the 28th Sao Paulo Biennial (2008) and 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011).
She has organised a workshop on time-based media works documentation with Tate in 2019 (Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo) and has coordinated Pinacoteca’s Copyright Policy publication in 2020.
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