Description
The two-day international conference investigated new directions in material culture studies by focusing on creative, critical and theoretical engagement with the material culture of art and design, both within and beyond the art school. The material culture of art and design covers a wide range of art practices, from professionally designed works within the art school, to the less official works of the self-taught amateur. An emphasis on processes means paying close attention to places of production; from the art school, the studio, the print workshop, the pressing plant, the factory, the street, to the discrete – yet equally significant – realms of domestic life. Although places of consumption and display have been readily mapped out in academic and non-academic literature (Attfield 2007; Bronner 1989; Zola 1883), little has been written about the eminently complex environment of the studio and the art school.As such, the aim of this conference was to discuss these under-explored areas in material culture studies. For instance, traditional approaches fail to fully engage with the multi-materialities and ‘plasticity’ or flexibility of works of art and design, or with the affective resonances of objects (Andrews and O’Sullivan 2013; Moran and O’Brien 2014).
Gray delivered a joint paper with Soersha Dyon (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) entitled: Re-imagining the Period Room Through Post Disciplinary Collaboration
| Period | 7 Sept 2015 → 8 Sept 2015 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Glasgow, United KingdomShow on map |