[ecrea] CFP: Framing Space through Architecture and Film

CALL FOR PAPERS

Association for Art History 2018 Annual Conference

Courtauld Institute of Art & King’s College London

5 – 7 April 2018, London

*Framing Space through Architecture and Film*

*Session Convenors: *

Jessica Schouela, University of York, (js1878 /at/ york.ac.uk)

Hannah Paveck, King’s College London, (hannah.paveck /at/ kcl.ac.uk)

We experience architecture and film as media of duration that unfold in 
time. The encounter of an embodied spectator or inhabitant with a film 
or a dwelling is informed principally by motion and the succession of 
one frame or screen (architectonic and cinematic) to the next. These two 
modes of construction investigate into the three dimensional occupancy 
and representation of space as it relates to both bodies and objects, 
framed within curated and mediated spaces. Instantiating an experience 
of space that is far more than visual, architecture and film activate 
both sound and touch, the latter being a mutual and relational 
‘commitment’ of the body and the world (Jennifer Barker).

Adolf Loos famously writes: “it is my greatest pride that the interiors 
I have created are completely lacking in effect when photographed”. Does 
film function differently? How have architecture and film represented 
each other and in which ways do they, either similarly or distinctly, 
frame or design space? What happens to architecture when it is filmed 
and how might a building be described in terms of its cinematic 
qualities (Beatriz Colomina)?

Moreover, how can film and architecture challenge our perceptual habits? 
Can film convey atmosphere of space and the built environment (Gernot 
Böhme)? How might the representation of urban versus domestic narratives 
(i.e. exterior and interior space) through film result in distinct 
viewing experiences?

This panel explores the mutually informing link between architecture and 
film in an effort to not only open up the limits of these methods of 
representation but also to look beyond what typically gets included 
within the history of art. Proposals may address the relationship 
between architecture and film through ontological comparisons, the 
framing and representation of space, and/or the phenomenological 
experience of mediated spaces.

Please submit your proposal for a 25-minute paper to (js1878 /at/ york.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(js1878 /at/ york.ac.uk)> and (hannah.paveck /at/ kcl.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(hannah.paveck /at/ kcl.ac.uk)> by Monday 6 November 2017. Proposals 
should include the title of the paper, a 250-word abstract, and a short 
bibliographical statement.

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