UISPP/ LISBOA/PORTUGAL/SEPT/2006

Session WS19 Thursday , 7 September 2006 / Jeudi, 7 Septembre 2006,
Room 12.04, Faculty of Law, Lisbon University Salle 12.04,

Faculté de Droit, Université de Lisbonne

Rock Art and Museum Art Rupestre et Musée

organized by / organisé par

Dario SEGLIE - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica (CeSMAP),
Pinerolo, Torino, Italy - CeSMAP@...

Guillermo MUÑOZ - Grupo de Investigación de Arte Rupestre Indigena
(GIPRI), Bogotá, D. C., Colombia – gipri@...

Giorgio DIMITRIADIS - Director of the Hellenic Rock Art Centre,
Rovato, Italy – giorgio.dimitriadis@...

SESSION'S ABSTRACT

The name rock art is traditionally attributed to all non-utilitarian
anthropic markings on rock surfaces; the term "art" is utilized latu
sensu, without aesthetic implications, according to the Latin
etymology that defines the human activity of producing artefacts,
hence the derivation of the words artisan, artificer, artist.

Rock art is today only the "residue" of ancient cultural complexes,
conserved over time, while songs, prayers, dances, gestures, votive
offerings etc. are unrecoverable, but it displays the spiritual
abundance of our oldest ancestors.

The keen interest in rock art derives from its relative rarity, as
sites that testify the cognitive dimension of man; the main problem
facing us now is conservation, protection and communication.

To identify the best procedures for a valid protection it is
necessary to plan monitoring with instruments recording the
variability in the environmental parameters and the impact on the
rock monuments, in view of the primary conservational necessity.

The symposium will critically consider the propriety and feasibility
of treating rock art of the past as a source of knowledge for the
contemporary interpreter, examine the possibility that such knowledge
may be distorted by subjective ethnocentric perceptions, and explore
the necessity of evolving museological models, which can present and
conserve rock art without reflecting current prejudices and
predilections.

The symposium will also focus attention on the existing and pristine
relation of the rock art landscapes with adjacent landscapes,
humanized by local communities. An attempt will be made to assess the
possibility of restoring the custodial interest, if any, of such
communities in the rock art landscapes; and, to recognize the
constructive, constitutive and creative role of rock art and the
associated folklore in the conservation and replenishment of such
landscapes.

The contributors may like to address themselves to the question of
inter institutional cooperation across the globe for a quest into
appropriate ways of documenting and presenting rock art within a
museum, for inciting aesthetic, technical, ecological, cultural and
touristic interest of visitors, and, for fulfilling convergent
objectives of conservation, education, research or appreciation.

Rock art museums, projects or institutions, in open air or indoor, as
cultural interpretation of reality, is a form of cultural heritage
conservation technique.



Museology and museography of rock art should be sciences devoted to
the survival of this spiritual legacy of humanity. (GSA)





SESSION PROGRAMME / PROGRAMME DE LA SESSION



09:00 Opening / Ouverture

09:00-09:15 Dario SEGLIE (Pinerolo, Italy)

WS19-01 New perspective in rock art museology: the Rocca of Cavour
and the prehistoric paintings ecomuseum in the Western Alps.

09:15-09:25 Raffaella POGGIANI KELLER (Milan, Italy)

WS19-02 Archaeological Rock Art Parks in Lombardy, Italy:
Organization,

Conservation and Recording Methods


09:25-09:35 Gabriella DODERO (Genoa, Italy) - Patrizia GARIBALDI
(Genoa, Italy) Irene MOLINARI (Genoa, Italy) - Paola SIGNORINI
(Genoa, Italy)

Antonella TRAVERSO (Genoa, Italy)

WS19-03 Visual impairments and archaeology: an experience with a
Talking Book 09.35-09:45 George DIMITRIADIS (Philippi, Greece)

WS19-04 Planning an Open Air rock art Museum: The case of Philippi,
Greece. 09:45-09:55 Aldo Renato Daniele ACCARDI (Palermo, Italy)

WS19-05 La "communication" de l'art prehistorique: de la pratique
didactique à la redecouverte de l'invisible. 10:00-10:10 Miguel Angel
ALBADÁN (GIPRI, Colombia)

WS19-06 How to visualize the process and the complexity of rock art
investigations? 10:10-10:20 Guillermo Muñoz C. (GIPRI, Colombia)

WS19-07 The cultural complexity and the conservation of the rock art.
10:20-10:30 Judith TRUJILLO TELLEZ (GIPRI, Colombia)

WS19-08 The rock art of the Bochica Route. Possible connections
between oral tradition and sense and function of rock art.

10:30-10:40 Luiz OOSTERBEEK (Tomar, Portugal) Sara CURA (Tomar,
Portugal) Anabela PEREIRA (Mação, Portugal)

WS19-09 Prehistoric Art Museum of Mação - scientific research and
social dynamization. 10.40-10:50 Barbara PROVINCIALI (Roma, Italy)

Anna Maria MARINELLI (Roma, Italy) Domenico POGGI

WS19-10 Stratifying of spiritual significances in the artock sites.
Can matter's conservation takes part in the survival of its own
meaning?

10:50-11:00 Discussion