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 contact shortcourse.design@kingston.ac.uk. Tel: 020 8547 7066

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

Brenda Martin, Curator
Dorich House Museum
Kingston University
Kingston Vale, London SW15 3RN
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8547 7515
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8547 7818

Museum Open Days:

Fridays: 26 Oct, 23 Nov, 14 Dec 2007. 29 Feb, 28 Mar, 25 Apr, 30 May, 25 Jul 2008. Saturdays: 8 Sep 2007, 26 Jan 2008.

Details at: www.kingston.ac.uk/dorich

To book call 020 8547 7519