Stockholm university
Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Cultural Transfer: Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture in Transnational Movement

Conference

Date: Friday 21 April 2023

Time: 09.00 – 17.00

Location: The Auditorium, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Manne Siegbahn Buildings, Frescativägen 24E

Cultural Transfer: Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture in Transnational Movement is an open symposium on cultural transfer from a broad and multifaceted perspective.

Models wearing Simultanist clothing in front of a Simultanist Citroen designed by Sonia Delaunay, 19
Models wearing Simultanist clothing in front of a Simultanist Citroen designed by Sonia Delaunay, 1925. © French National Library

The notion of cultural transfer includes transnational migration of individuals and objects as well as artistic styles, ideas, methods, or discourses. Cultural transfer may also refer to the political and cultural effects and challenges related to diverse forms of migration.

The symposium focuses on cultural exchanges and transnational contacts in relation to diverse empirical materials, historical periods, and theoretical perspectives. The papers address issues related to artistic and cultural mobility across national borders, transnational networks, stylistic transformations, or constructions of individual and collective identities and ideas.

Organisers: Andrea Kollnitz and Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe

RVSP by 17 April to:

jessica.skrubbe@arthistory.su.se

 

Programme

09:00–09:30 Welcome
09:30–10:00 Malin Holdar: “’And in the middle of it all sits Hyland…’ The televised introduction of Happenings in Sweden”
10:00–10:30 Jessica Fröberg: “Early 16th-century transports of altarpieces through Northern Europe”
10:30–11:00  Coffee
11:00–11:30 Catharina Nolin: “Asian gardens in Sweden – expressions of material culture and cultural encounters”
11:30–12:00 Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe: “Gendering the geohistory of Swedish modern art”
12:00–13:30  Lunch
13:30–15:00 Marsha Meskimmon: Transcanons: On Writing Transhemispheric Art’s Histories. Key note address + Q/A.
15:00–15:30 Coffee
15:30–16:30 Andrea Kollnitz and Kristoffer Noheden: “Surrealism in Sweden: A Transcultural Phenomenon”
16:30–17:00 Concluding discussion
Theme
Culture and Media - Theme page
Research subjects
Architecture, landscape architecture and design Gender perspectives on art Visual culture Modern and contemporary art

Last updated: March 22, 2023

Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics