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Project Website (with 89 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11351/
Slought Foundation and the Department of Architecture, PennDesign, are pleased to announce "Institutions," part of the Evasions of Power conference. This session will take place on Friday, March 30, 2007 from 1:15-2:45pm at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Upper Gallery of Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street. This session will feature 10-15 minute presentations by Anselm Franke, Sarah Herda, David Kazanjian, Thomas Keenan, and John Palmesino, with a discussion to follow moderated by Katherine Carl.
The conversants have requested that the following readings be made available below (PDF) in conjunction with the conversation:
 Download Thomas Keenan's essay "Drift: Politics and the Simulation of Real Life" (Grey Room 21, Fall 2005, pp. 94–111)
Download John Palmesino's essay "Neutrality," 2006 (First published in German in Stadt Bauwelt 172, 48.06)
Download Anselm Franke's essays "The Geography of Extraterroritality" and "The Frontiers of Utopia: The Island as a Territorial Machine," in Territories, Ed. Anselm Franke and Eyal Weizman (Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2004).
Download the Evasions of Power Conference Schedule (PDF)
This event is part of the “Evasions of Power” conference, a series of roundtable discussions exploring the relations between literature, architecture, and geo-politics. The photo-documentation on this webpage–of military forces from Montenegro transporting and installing a shrine on the Serbian border–exemplifies this intersection. The proceedings will take place in Philadelphia from March 30-31, 2007 and have been jointly organized by Slought Foundation and the Department of Architecture, PennDesign, in conjunction with the Centre for Architecture Research, Goldsmiths College, London, the
Department of Art History, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, and Eastern State Penitentiary historic site and museum, Philadelphia. Major support for Evasions of Power has been provided by the Graham
Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Departing from the usual academic convention of presenting knowledge in the form of straightforward talks or presentations, this project will include a series of roundtable discussions, debates and interventions of varying duration, with an integrated online presence. For more information about the “Evasions of Power” conference, please consult http://slought.org/series/Evasions/
Read More About this Project (PDF Download)
Anselm Franke is a curator and writer based in Antwerp and Berlin. He is currently the Artistic Director of Extra City Center for Contemporary Art in Antwerp. Recent projects include Clinic: A Pathology of Gestures at Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin, November 2006, curated with Hila Peleg and No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night at KW Berlin, September 2006, with Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Ines Schaber and Judith Hopf. He was the curator of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin until 2006, where he curated exhibitions such as Territories. Islands, Camps and Other States of Utopia (2003); Image Archives (2001/2002); The Imaginary Number (2005, together with Hila Peleg) and B-Zone – Becoming Europe and Beyond . He has edited and published publications with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König and others and is a contributor to magazines such as Parkett, Cabinet Magazine, Piktogram, Domus and ARCHIS. Anselm Franke is currently a PhD candidate in Visual Cultures/Center for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College London.
Sarah Herda is the Executive Director of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Founded in 1956, Graham Foundation is the largest private foundation in the United States committed to providing project-based grants to individuals and institutions working to address issues related to architecture and the built environment. In addition to the grant program, Herda oversees a public program of exhibitions, lectures, and publications produced at the foundation’s headquarters in the historic Madlener House in Chicago. Herda was the Director/Curator of the Storefront for Art and Architecture, a non-profit exhibition space in New York City, from 1998-2006. While in that position she mounted over forty diverse exhibitions, working closely with architects, artists, and designers to present their work in a public forum. Herda is active in the design community and serves on numerous advisory boards and review panels related to architecture, art, design and related fields.
David Kazanjian teaches in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. His area of specialization is transnational American literary and historical studies through the nineteenth century. His additional fields of research are political philosophy, continental philosophy, colonial discourse studies, and Armenian Diaspora studies. His book The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (Minnesota, 2003) offers a comparative study of colonial and antebellum, racial and national formations, and a critique of the formal egalitarianism that animated early U.S. citizenship. He has co-edited (with David L. Eng) Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California, 2003), as well as (with Shay Brawn, Bonnie Dow, Lisa Maria Hogeland, Mary Klages, Deb Meem, and Rhonda Pettit) The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Aunt Lute Books, 2004). He has also published widely (with Anahid Kassabian) on the cultural politics of the North American-Armenian diaspora. He is currently working on The Brink of Freedom, a study of social movements at the edges of the early U.S. empire.
Thomas Keenan is the Director of the Human Rights Project and an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College in New York. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics (1997); articles in PMLA, New York Times, Wired, Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, and many other publications. He is the editor of The End(s) of the Museum (1996); coeditor of New Media, Old Media (2005); and Paul de Man, Wartime Journalism, 1939–1943 (1988). He is an editorial and advisory board member of the Journal of Human Rights, Grey Room, WITNESS, and Scholars at Risk Network. (1999– )
John Palmesino, an achitect and urbanist, lives and works in Basel. He is the head of research at ETH Zurich, Studio Basel / Contemporary City Institute, a research platform for the investigation of the transformation patterns of the city of the 21st Century founded by Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Marcel Meili and Roger Diener. Recent publications inlcude 'Switzerland–An Urban Portrait', Birkhäuser. His researches at ETH Studio Basel focus on Paris, Napoli, San Francisco, St Petersburg, Hong Kong, and the Canary Islands. "Open and Closed: Transformations in the 21st Century City" is the working title of his forthcoming publication. He is also a founding member of multiplicity, a research network on contemporary territorial transformations. The Milan-based organisation deals with contemporary urbanism, representation of inhabited landscape transformation, visual arts and general culture. multiplicity is a research network of architects, urbanists, social scientists, photographers, filmmakers and visual artists. He is also the initiator and curator of the research project “Neutrality”, a multidisciplinary investigation in the territorial implications of UN policies and self-organisation processes of the contemporary human landscapes. His work has been exhibited at documenta11, the Biennale di Venezia, the Triennale in Milano, the KunstWerke, Berlin, the Musée d'Art Contemporaine de Paris, the Vanabben Museum in Eindhoven, IABR Rotterdam. He has also taught at the EPFL Lausanne, the Politecnico di Milano, Goldsmiths London, and Harvard School of Design, and he has lectured widely in Europe, the US, Japan and Australia. He has published in the main European architecture magazines. He is also the co-author of 'USE Uncertain states of Europe, Skira 2003, 'MUTATIONS', Actar 2000, and 'Lessico Postfordista–Scenari della mutazione', Feltrinelli 2001.
Katherine Carl is writing her doctoral dissertation on conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s of the former Yugoslavia in the department of Art History and Criticism at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She holds a BA in Art History from Oberlin College. Currently Curator of Contemporary Art at The Drawing Center and a founder of School of Missing Studies, she worked previously at Dia Art Foundation (1999-2003), taught at New York University (2002-3), managed the ArtsLink international exchange program (1996-1997), was a museum specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts (1991-1995), and was a founder and editor of Link Critical Journal on the Arts (1994-1997) and managing editor of Art Criticism (1998-2001). Her recent independent curatorial projects include: Flipside, ArtsLink at Artists Space (2004), an exhibition and publication on contemporary art from Eastern Europe and the US; go_HOME residency and online project (New York, 2001) with artists Danica Dakic and Sandra Sterle; and the Tandem Project (Washington, DC, 2000) residency and exhibition with artists from ex-Yugoslavia. Her writing has been published in journals and exhibition catalogues internationally.
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of Centre for Architecture Research, Goldsmiths College, London, the Department of Art History, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, and Eastern State Penitentiary historic site and museum, Philadelphia. Major support for Evasions of Power has been provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Media sponsorship provided by Archinect.
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