05.01.2005
A major international symposium exploring the relationship between sculpture and design and sculptors and designers takes place at the University of Brighton on 14-15 January 2005.
Over the past century there has been a creative shift in sculptural values and design imperatives and a growing interplay between sculpture and design. Artists have explored the sculptural resonances of industrial and three-dimensional design, while designers have appropriated the forms, language and discourse of sculpture.
Interior of the Bijenkorf department store, Rotterdam.
Design, September 1957.
Sculpture has colonised domestic, industrial and social space and industrial design and functional objects now occupy the gallery. From the earliest ready-mades to contemporary multiples, the mass-produced has been re-located, re-displayed and re-interpreted.
The creative relationship between sculpture and design offers a potentially rich, relatively unexplored field for interdisciplinary attention. The two-day Sculpture and Design symposium, which is organised by the university's Faculty of Arts and Architecture in collaboration with Loughborough University School of Art and Design, will explore this relationship and consider aspects of education, authorship, making and manufacture, display, consumption and critical reception.
The keynote speaker is Barbara Bloemink, Curatorial Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design. She is curator of the exhibition DESIGN ≠ ART: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread, running until 25 February 2005 at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Barbara Bloemink is joined by international speakers including Marion Arnold, Loughborough University School of Art and Design; Cheryl Buckley, University of Northumbria at Newcastle; Robert Burstow, University of Derby; Penelope Curtis, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds; Dan Cuffaro and Saul Ostrow, Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio; Anja Gerritzen, Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany; Craig Martin, Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College; Nicky Ryan, University of the Arts, London; Jennifer Way, University of North Texas, USA; Jane Riches, University of East London; Jonathan Woodham, University of Brighton; Franziska Uhlig, independent.
The event is supported by the British Academy, the Henry Moore Foundation, the Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton, and Loughborough University School of Art and Design. To book a place contact Amira Driscoll - 01273 643209, email: dhrc@brighton.ac.uk
Further information
Dr Catherine Moriarty, University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts and Architecture
- 01273 643219, email: c.moriarty@brighton.ac.uk
Dr Gillian Whiteley, Loughborough University School of Art and Design, email: g.whiteley@lboro.ac.uk
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