Symposium | Pavilions

Cross-section of Brighton Pavilion showing the Music Room, Salon, Banqueting Room and Kitchen, 1821-25. Etching and aquatint, hand-coloured. British Museum, London.

Cross-section of Brighton Pavilion showing the Music Room, Salon, Banqueting Room and Kitchen, 1821-25. Etching and aquatint, hand-coloured. British Museum, London.

To mark of the launch of the 2016 MPavilion, the University of Melbourne is hosting a symposium that brings together leading architects, artists, curators, architectural historians, cultural historians and art historians to focus on the theme of ‘The Pavilion’, an architectural structure with an ancient lineage and continuing contemporary resonance.

Experts from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds will provide different perspectives on the ‘The Pavilion’ over three sessions. The first session—held at the University’s Melbourne School of Design—will include art historians and cultural historians; the second and third sessions—held at the VCA—will include architects, architectural historians and art historians, and artists and curators respectively.

Tuesday 4 October 2016, 10:00am-6:00pm.

An outline of the three sessions is provided below and full details can be found on the Australian Institute of Art History website. This is a free event but places are limited, so booking is essential. Bookings can be made via the University of Melbourne alumni page. The symposium will be launched with a keynote forum on Monday 3 October at 6:15pm, details of which can be found here.


Session 1:
10.00am-12.00pm
Venue:
Malaysian Theatre, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
Session Chair: Assoc. Professor Alison Inglis, AIAH, School of Culture and Communication

Presenters:
Assoc. Professor David Marshall, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
Pavilion and Fabrique: Meaning and Reception

Dr Katrina Grant, Independent scholar. Director, Melbourne Art Network
Garden Theatres: Stages for performing power and learning

Dr Paul Fox, Independent historian, Melbourne
The nineteenth-century Australian garden pavilion: A meditation on the prospect and nature of colonial scenery.


Session 2:
1.30pm-3.30pm
Venue:
Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts
Session Chair: Professor Julie Willis, Melbourne School of Design and ACAHUCH

Presenters:
Robert Grace, Robert Grace Architecture
Pavillons.

Dr David O’Brien, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
The Wave Hill Walk-off Pavilions: Stories in Steel, Concrete and Sweat.

Professor Kate Darian Smith, ACAHUCH
Pavilions as Memorials.

Assoc. Professor Alison Inglis, AIAH and School of Culture and Communication
The ‘airy pavilion’ entombed: Werribee Park’s shell grotto


Session 3:
4.00pm-6.00pm
Venue: Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts
Session Chair: Professor Su Baker, Director, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne

Dr Rebecca Coates, Director, Shepparton Art Museum
Contemporary Art and the Pavilion

Geoff Nees, Artist and Curator, Melbourne
A brief and incomplete history of Japanese inspired Pavilions in Melbourne.

Dr David Sequeira, Director, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts
The Pavilion: from the Renaissance to Ramsey Street

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