Jane Pavitt
Exhibitionist
Tendencies: Curating Postmodernism
4pm
Friday, 21 October 2011
Lecture Room G6, School of Art Design and Printing
Dublin Institute of Technology, 41
Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1
Jane Pavitt
is head of the postgraduate History of Design Department at the Royal College
of Art, London. Prior to this, she was the University of Brighton Principal
Research Fellow at the V&A from 1997-2010, where she curated a series of
exhibitions on recent and contemporary design. In 2008, she was curator of Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70 (with
consultant curator David Crowley). In this talk, she will discuss the thinking
behind the V&A’s major exhibition for autumn 2011, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-90, which she has
co-curated with the V&A’s head of graduate studies, Glenn Adamson.
The exhibition is the first of
its kind to examine the international development of Postmodernism in design
and the applied arts, incorporating architecture, art, fashion, graphics, music
and performance, film and video. The talk will address the problematics of
approaching postmodernism from a curatorial perspective; exploring strategies
for interpretation and display.
All are welcome to this free event.
To secure your place, please book by email: indiscussionadp@gmail.com
in|discussion
This public
lecture series is a forum to discuss contemporary issues and current research
in typography, art, design, material culture, critical theory, pedagogy,
philosophy, society and technology.
