Migrating Modernism, Migrating Ideas: Art in Architecture Symposium

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27 August Symposium Program

Chau Chak Wing Museum, Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium

US case studies 10.00am – 12.30pm

1. Aaron Nyerges, United States Studies Centre

Black Mountain College as a modernist Utopia

2. Imogen Dixon-Smith, Architecture (Sydney)

A rational dynamism: Lessons from Josef Albers

3. Dr Nichloas Croggon, Power Institute (Sydney)

Gregory Battcock: art and architecture at the end of the liner era

Roundtable (chair: Rodney Taveira, USSC Sydney)

Migrating modernism II: Internationalising Australia 2.00pm – 4.30pm

1. A. Prof. Andrea Bubenik, Art History, (Queensland)

Brisbane Baroque? Seidler’s Fluid Forms

2. Dr Ann Stephen, CCWM, (Sydney)

Seidler’s unwritten “Art in Architecture”

3. Dr. Erica DiBenedetto, Chazen Museum of Art, Uni of Wisconsin-Madison

The Cube & Australia Square’: Sol LeWitt and Harry Seidler in conversation

Roundtable (chair: Professor Mark Ledbury, Sydney)

Migrating Modernism, Migrating Ideas: Transnational Exchanges in Architecture and Art is a symposium bringing together scholars and practitioners to explore how the movement of people, objects, and expertise reshapes art, the built environment, and their cultural meanings.

This symposium is convened by Dr Paolo Stracchi and Dr Ann Stephen, University of Sydney. It is co-presented by the Chau Chak Wing Museum (CCWM), the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning (ADP), the United States Studies Centre (USSC), the Power Institute of Art & Visual Culture, and the State Library of NSW.…