May 08

STAGING THE MODERN INTERIOR
The Dorich House Annual Conference 10

Thursday May 15/Friday May 16 2008

Hosted by the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC)
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Kingston University, London

A two-day interdisciplinary conference which will examine the role of
the interior as a 'stage' - a place where identities are formed and
performed.

The event will be of interest to artists, designers, architects, art
and design historians, film makers, theatre set designers and cultural
historians. Speakers will discuss: Frederick Leighton's 'Narcissus'
room, Alfred Roller's set designs for the 1903 Secession exhibition,
femininity in Hoffman and Klimt interiors, fin de siècle symbolist
interiors in theory, paintings and on the stage, ceremony and
etiquette in Weimar Germany, colonial artists' studio-apartments in
pre-war Paris, conventional life in Le Corbusier's 1930s interiors,
body-geometrics in Oscar Schlemmer's ballet sets, spaces of the
'private view' in art galleries, ritual and performance in post-war
church interiors in Britain, Breakfast at Tiffany's filmic interiors,
the performance of lifestyle in hotel lobbies and the scenography of
present day film and television.

Keynote address: Dr. Tag Gronberg, Reader in the History of Art and
Design, Birkbeck, University of London.

On the morning of Thursday 15 May postgraduate research students from
the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) will be making seminar
presentations of their work-in-progress. All delegates of the Staging
the Modern Interior conference will be invited to attend and
participate in these seminars.

Full delegate fee for 2 days: £150. Student £100 for 2 days.
Full delegate fee for 1 day: £90. Student £50
(Price includes all refreshments, lunch on Friday and a reception on
Thursday evening at the Dorich House Museum)

To Book: www.kingston.ac.uk/designbookonline
Find further details of speakers, abstracts, programme and MIRC
Postgraduate Forum at www.kingston.ac.uk/design/MIRC.