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 Aaron Levy is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Slought, a small Philadelphia-based institution whose programs focus as much on histories of cultural experimentation and political advocacy as on the creation of new social practices. Levy has developed a specific approach to the curatorial which extrudes and mobilizes historical models, and which re-imagines small organizations as agencies that can produce new correspondences, relationships, and practices of engagement. These practices privilege a responsive and dialogic approach, and include Into the Open, the official U.S. representation for architecture at La Biennale di Venezia (2008), which recovered American histories of architectural experimentation and community activism. More recently, Architecture on Display (2009-11), a research initiative and publication series with the Architectural Association, explores architecture's vexed relationship with its publics and the way architecture problematizes its own display, while Mixplace (2010-) will transform Slought Foundation in coming years into a site of collaborative knowledge production and civic engagement concerning Philadelphia neighborhoods, together with area social services organization People's Emergency Center, architect Teddy Cruz, and other institutions.
Levy is also a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and affiliated faculty with the Department of the History of Art. He received his PhD from the School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. His specialization is the cultural politics of memory and display, as well as non-governmental politics both nationally and internationally, as demonstrated by the Perpetual Peace Project. An advocate for inter-cultural dialogue about art and activism, Levy regularly lectures internationally, and has worked with cultural practitioners and academic institutions in Europe, the United States, Pakistan, China, and Rwanda. He has also served on several public sector committees including the planning group for the 2011 convening by the Andy Warhol Foundation of small non-profit organizations, and the Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions (FACIE).
His many publications include: Cities Without Citizens (2002); Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory (2006); Helene Cixous's Ex-cities (2007); Evasions of Power: On the Architecture of Adjustment (2011); Architecture on Display: On the Living History of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2010); and Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse (forthcoming, 2012). Artist monographs and multimedia publications include: William Anastasi's Pataphysical Society (2005); Tooth and Nail: Film and Video 1970-1974 by Dennis Oppenheim (2007); Vito Acconci in Conversation at Acconci Studio, New York (2008); On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation (2008); Democracy and Disappointment: Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley on the Politics of Resistance (2008); Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America (2008); Braco Dimitrijevic's Tractatus Post-Historicus (2009); Peter Weibel, Rewriter (2009); John Cage / How to Get Started (2010); Perpetual Peace (2011); and On the Political Equator: Sergio Fajardo in Conversation with Oscar Romo and Teddy Cruz (forthcoming, 2012).
Slought Foundation (http://sloughtfoundation.org)
Perpetual Peace Project (http://perpetualpeaceproject.org)
How to Get Started (http://howtogetstarted.org)
Architecture on Display (http://architectureondisplay.org)
Into the Open (http://intotheopen.org)
Fairytale Project (http://fairytaleproject.net)
Domus magazine (http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/towards-a-politics-of-evasiveness/)
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