Modernism: Making, Place & Protest

Decorating Dissidence explores the enduring importance of female-identifying contributions to the arts as political protest throughout the twentieth century to now.

Decorating Dissidence

<H4 CLASS="MsoNormal">A DAY OF TALKS FROM CURATORS, ACADEMICS &amp; ARTISTS WITH FILM SCREENING OF ‘THE FAMOUS WOMEN DINNER SERVICE’.  Speakers will explore the links between historic and contemporary decorative/craft practices to reassess their value in the worlds of art, design and literature. The symposium will look at site-specific works and identity to explore how decorative craft-makers might engage with protest in the artworld and beyond… The symposium will ask questions such as: What does it mean to make artworks that challenge concepts of ‘place’? Can the decorative be political? How might craft disrupt the gallery and museum space? What might a feminist genealogy of decorative art and craft look like?</H4>
Provisional titles for talks on the day include: 
Enam Gbewonyo (artist/curator): Yarn, power and patriarchy: an exercise in unravelling the seams of oppression Claire Mead (curator): Disruption and Collaboration: collectively queering the museum and archive through craft Dr. Hope Wolf (Sussex): ‘Womb Life’: Portraits of Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff at Home Priya Khanchandani (writer/curator): Decolonising Culture Dr. Megha Rajguru (Brighton): 'Constructing modernity: The Indian home in the Vistara exhibition'. Professor Sanja Bahun (Essex): Lyubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and the Female Artist as Producer of Reality Dr. Rosemary Shirley (Manchester): Festive Landscapes: Well-dressing and place in contemporary rural Derbyshire Madi Acharya-Baskerville (artist): ‘Walking through the forest, Searching for the sea’: Finding, Collecting and Making Dr. Louise Purbrick (Brighton): Rags and Resistance: everyday protests around the twentieth century Kasia Jezowska (Oxford): 'Too tentative.’ On the reception of Polish exhibitions at the Milan Triennali during the Cold War. Nicole Morris &amp; Maria de Lima (artists): INGEST / DIGEST / EXCRETE 
The day will end with a screening of “The Famous Women Dinner Service”: In Conversation with Contemporary Art, followed by a Q&A with Dr. Hana Leaper led by Jenni Råback.  Refreshments &amp; a vegetarian lunch served as part of the ticket price. If you have any issue meeting the full ticket price, please don't hesitate to contact us. Any questions, accessibility issues or dietary requirements please email decoratingdissidence@gmail.com.  Registration on the day will run 9:30am-10am. Please keep <A HREF="https://decoratingdissidence.wordpress.com/making-place-protest-symposium-2018/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">checking the website</A> for more times and information as it's released closer to the date. Full programme of events <A HREF="https://decoratingdissidence.wordpress.com/programme-2/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">can be found here</A>.

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