Architecture and Performance
Graduate Student Symposium
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, Connecticut
This one-day graduate student symposium considers
architecture through the framework of its explicit and
implicit performative aspects.
The built environment bears witness to the performances
of its makers. It also reflects and informs the behavior
of its inhabitants. The activities of those involved
in producing architecture—among them architects,
engineers, masons, builders, and decorators—and those
who use it, represent some of the performances in
which architecture participates. Other interpretations of
“performative” architecture may be more conceptual.
A building may, for example, be taken to embody the
technical, ornamental, or historical knowledge of its
producers. Alternatively, architecture may play a central
role in communicating visual or verbal narrative in a
painting, novel, or play, for example. This symposium
explores the historical and theoretical relationships
between architecture and performance across a range of
disciplines, geographic locations, and periods.
We invite proposals for 25-minute papers on this theme
from graduate students across the arts and sciences.
Special consideration will be given to papers examining
the topic in relation to British art and culture. Cross-
disciplinary and comparative studies are particularly
welcome.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words by
November 30, 2009. E-mail to imogen.hart@yale.edu,
or mail to:
Imogen Hart, Research Department
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
P.O. Box 208280
New Haven, CT 06520-8280
Travel funds for speakers are available upon application.
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