The Intimate Interior

Open lecture by Alison J. Clarke, social anthropologist, design historian and professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

In the lecture Alison J. Clarke will consider how the contemporary domestic interior is most often understood as an intimate space; a principal site of self-making and aesthetic expression tied to the biography of its individual inhabitants across time. Clarke will challenge this assumption, instead exploring the contemporary domestic interior, and its contents, as an agent key to the tentative process of negotiating the normativity of every day social life.