CRASSH

Design without Frontiers: Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration in Soviet Art, Architecture and Design

Thursday, 20 September 2012 to Friday, 21 September 2012
Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, and University Library, Cambridge

Programme

Thurs, 20 September
10.15 - 10.45	Registration
10.45 - 11.00	Rosalind Blakesley: Introductory Remarks
11.00 - 12.45	SESSION 1 Chair: Christina Lodder Maria Gough: Architectonic Supersagas: Tatlin stages “Zangezi” Susanne Strätling: Play with Words. Hands-on Aesthetics in Constructivist Book Design
12.45 - 14.15	Lunch Visit to the Catherine Cooke Exhibition, University Library
14.15 - 16.00	SESSION 2 Chair: John Milner Robert Bird: Dialectics and Design in the 1930s John Mackay:Tense Collaborations: Vertov’s Kino-Eye among the -isms and within the State Molly Brunson: Design in Painting: Architecture, the Graphic Arts, and the Society of Easel Painters
16.00 - 16.30	Tea
16.30 - 17.30	UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Plenary Lecture I Chair: Rosalind P. Blakesley John E. Bowlt: Higher, Ever Higher! Astronautics and the Russian Avant-Garde
17.30- 19.00	Exhibition and Drinks Reception in the University Library

Fri, 21 September
9.30 - 10.30	Plenary Lecture II Chair: Emma Widdis Christina Kiaer: “Work, build and don’t whine!”: Laterality and Transmediality in the 1930s
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee
11.00 - 12.45	SESSION 3: Post-graduate Show and Tell Material Encounters with the Cooke Collection Chair: Mel Bach Louise Hardiman: Moi deviz: Shekhtel’s designs for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition Rosie Bainbridge: Constructing Visual Perception: Rodchenko’s Word on Page and Screen Galina Mardilovich: Packaging the Belomor Canal Jennifer Brewin: The End of An Era: Picturing the Sudeikins’ Departure For the West
12.45 - 13.45	Lunch
13.45 - 15.15	SESSION 4 Chair: Katya Rogatchevskaya Susie Reid: Designing the Soviet Sixties Jane Sharp: Design as Decoy?
15.15 - 15.45	Tea
15.45 - 17.00	SESSION 5 Chair: tbc Ellen Rutten: Post-Soviet Creative Practices: Professions, Compartments, (Non-)Frontiers Susan Larsen: Reality Shows: Documentary and Collaboration in Film, Theatre, Television and Politics
17.00 - 17.15	Emma Widdis: Closing remarks
20.00	Open air film screening of Aelita at the University Library