MA Symposium 2013

Hello All,

it's that time of year again, when our postgraduate students present their dissertation projects at our annual MA Symposium.  As usual, our MA Art Gallery & Museum Studies students are presenting their projects alongside our other MA students (MA Art History, MA Cultural Studies, MA Fine Art)....interdisciplinarity at work!
Here's the programme...if you're interested you can pop along of course!
Mark

University of Leeds

School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies

MA Symposium

Schedule

22-23 May 2013

Old Mining Building

Room G.19

Wednesday 22 May

10:00-10:15         Welcome

          Dr Eric Prenowitz

10:15-12:15         Experiences of Art

Chair: Dr Barbara Engh

-         Freya Jewitt: ‘The Voice is the Sun Touching Your Face’

-         Jasia Little: ‘Poetics of Space’: The Construction of Intimacy in Bourgeois, Salcedo and Halilaj

-         Marcus Rogers: How can a non-contemporary painting be a relational agent?

-         Leila Nassereldein: The Time of the Collector: Rereading Walter Benjamin

-         Alexandra Bowron: ‘Kool-Aid-Man in Second Life’: New Media Art and Johanna Drucker’s Concept of ‘Complicity’

12:15-1:00     LUNCH  (Rm. 1.04)

1:00-2:35    (R)uses of Technology

Chair: Dr Catherine Ferguson

-         Endang Suryana Priyatna: The Speakers of the Mosques: Voices and Noises in the Urban Soundscape of Indonesia

-         Jessica Gough: ‘We Live in Public’

-         Fiona Green: The Voice of Domestic Service: The Development and Representation of ‘Below Stairs’ in West Yorkshire Historic Houses

-         Anne Cresswell: Lee Bontecou: Ecology and the Speculative Imaginary

2:35-2:50       TEA BREAK (Rm. G.19)

2:50-4:50              The Dead, the Archive

Chair: Prof David Hill

-         Rosemary Eade: ‘An Issue of Life and Death’: A Discussion of Taxidermy

-         Emily Bryan-Kinns: Touching Objects: Exploring Public Responses to the Egyptian Artefact Handling Collection at the Manchester Museum

-         Rebecca Jenkins: ‘I Tweet Dead People’: An Analysis of a Modern Approach to Engaging Audiences in Classical Collections

-         Stephanie Tredan: The Repatriation of Australian Indigenous Human Remains from the Manchester Museum

-         Sally Colledge: Ephemeral Art: How and Why Do We Keep it Alive for Future Audiences?

Thursday 23 May

10:00-12:00         Ways of Seeing Things

Chair: Dr Abigail Harrison Moore

-         Acatia Finbow: The Artist is Present: The Spectacle of Marina Abramovic at MoMA

-         Stefanie Woodford: Collector or Hoarder? Notions of Collecting and Value at Mr Straw’s House

-         Nicola Joy Reynolds: Museums and Visually Impaired Visitors: The Rethinking of Heritage and Disability

-         Tina LeBlanc: Museums as Training Ground

12:00-1:00     LUNCH (Rm. 1.04)

1:00-2:35              Conflicting Modernities

Chair: Prof David Jackson

-         Kit Long Lam: Contemporary Chinese Art and its Socio-Intellectual Background in the 1990s

-         Holly Victoria Gilpin: Legacy and Culture in Post-Industrial Leeds

-         Yu-Ting Huang: David’s ‘Brutus’ and ‘Les Sabines’: Classical Roles Portraying the French Revolution

-         Tristan Marshall: The Art of the Sale

2:35-2:50       TEA BREAK (Rm. G.19)

2:50-4:50    Identity/Politics

Chair: Dr Eric Prenowitz

-         Yeon Jae Huh: Representation, Gender, Modernity: French Art in the 19^th and Early 20^th Centuries

-         Rachel Kelsey: Rewriting the Colonial Story: The Search for Identity and Selfhood in Abdellatif Kechiche’s Early Films

-         Ruei-Jen Wu: Contemporary Art Museum vs. National Identity Crisis

            Louisa Briggs: Strategies of Resistance: The Neo Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe in   the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s