Developing Strategies for the Conservation of Installations Incorporating Time-Based Media: Gary Hill's Between Cinema and a Hard Place

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Developing Strategies for the Conservation of Installations Incorporating Time-Based Media: Gary Hill's "Between Cinema and a Hard Place"


Since the early 1990s Tate has been working to establish standards of care for the conservation of artworks which incorporate film, video and audio. In this paper I discuss the strategies we are developing and the approach to the conservation of time-based media with reference to a particularly complex installation, Gary Hill's Between Cinema and a Hard Place 1991.