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Slought Foundation and the Department of Architecture, PennDesign, are pleased to announce "Interventions," part of the Evasions of Power conference. This session will take place on Friday, March 30, 2007 from 3:00-5:15pm 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 Carlos Basualdo and Jeanne van Heeswijk, Lindsay Bremner, Deborah Gans, David Ruy, Nebojsa Seric–Shoba, Teddy Cruz, and Shumon Basar, with a discussion to follow moderated by Helene Furjan. Closing remarks by Goldsmiths Centre for Architecture Research members will follow, beginning at 4:45pm.
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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/
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Carlos Basualdo is the Curator of Contemporary Art at The Philadelphia Museum of Art since Fall 2005, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the Universitá IVAV in Venice. He served as curator for The Structure of Survival, as part of the 50th Venice Biennial in 2003, and was one of the co-curators of DocumentaXI in Kassel, Germany, in 2002. Previously he was Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, from 2000 until 2002. Basualdo has also organized and contributed to many exhibitions around the world over the past decade. He is the curator of Tropicália: Revolution in Brazilian Culture (1967-1972), an interdisciplinary exhibition that will open in October at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and will travel internationally. Basualdo was responsible for the exhibition The Use of Images; Photographs, Cinema, and Video in the Jumex Collection, at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MalBA), and the Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, 2004, and edited the catalogue that accompanied it. He also organized the exhibition Hélio Oiticica: Quasi-cinemas, seen first at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2001 and which traveled to the Kölnischer Kunstverein, in Cologne, Germany, The Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in 2002. In addition, Basualdo was curator for the exhibition, From Adversity We Live, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2000), and co-curated The Aesthetics of Dreams (with Octavio Zaya), a section of the broad-ranging exhibition Versions of the South, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, (2001). Basualdo has written extensively for scholarly journals and art publications, including ArtForum, ArtNews, The Art Journal, The Art Newspaper, Moscow Art Magazine, Flash Art, NKA, Journal of Contemporary African Art, Atlantica, and Art Nexis. Basualdo was born in Argentina, and he received his degree in literature from the National University of Rosario in 1982, and participated in the Independent Study Program of the Critical Studies Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1994-1995).
Carlos Basualdo will present together with Jeanne van Heeswijk, a visual artist who was born in the Netherlands and who creates contexts for interaction in public spaces. Her projects distinguish themselves through a strong social involvement. With her work Van Heeswijk stimulates and develops cultural production and creates new public (meeting-)spaces or remodels existing ones. To achieve this she often works closely with artists, designers, architects, software developers, governments and citizens. She regularly lectures on topics such as urban renewal, participation and cultural production.
Lindsay Bremner joins the staff of the Architecture program in the Tyler School of Art, as Chair of Architecture, in August 2006. She was formerly a practicing architect and academic in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she held the position of Chair of Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand. Lindsay has published and lectured widely on the transformation of the South African city since the end of apartheid, after serving in public office in metropolitan government in Johannesburg the 1990’s. Her publications include Thabo Mbeki : The Geography of Exile (Domus 874), Reframing Township Space (Public Culture 16), Border/Skin (in Against the Wall, ed. Michael Sorkin), and a book, Johannesburg: One City Colliding Worlds. Her work has been key to the shaping of the exhibit on Johannesburg, curated by Ricky Burdett, for the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale. Lindsay was a Visiting Professor at MIT in 2005, where she taught a graduate level 3 design studio. Her teaching focus is architectural and urban theory and design.
Deborah Gans is principal in the design firm Gans Studio. The studio’s executed projects include industrial and graphic design, and architecture. The firm’s continuing work on alternative forms of housing includes disaster relief housing for Kosovo, which won an international competition and a subsequent grant for development, and a transitional housing system designed for Common Ground Community. The firm also has designed private residences in Maine, Connecticut, and New York. Commissioned by the School Construction Authority of New York, their patented “next generation school desk” is included in the permanent collection of the New York Historical Society. The firm’s design work has been widely published and exhibited at IFA Paris, RIBA London, The Rosenbach Museum Philadelphia, The Van Alen Institute, and the Architectural League of New York. Ms. Gans is currently a participant in a variety of planning and design projects for New Orleans involving community organizations such as Acorn; some of these projects are currently funded by HUD. Among her writings are The Le Corbusier Guide, now in its third edition, The Organic Approach: Alternatives to the Social and Physical Production of Architecture, and most recently Extreme Sites: Greening the Brownfield. She has taught at, among others, the Parsons School of Design, and Columbia University, and curently teaches at Pratt Institute, where she was the Chairman of the School of Architecture, and Yale University.
David Ruy teaches graduate architecture design studios and electives in the Department of Architecture at Penn School of Design. He has previously taught at Princeton University School of Architecture and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is currently co-director of Ruy Klein Architecture in New York City. Awards include the 1998 PA Architecture Design award in collaboration with Reiser-Umemoto & Jeffrey Kipnis for Water Garden, Lowenfish Design Award, special citation from the Val Alen Institute for Architecture and Technology. His work has been published in Arquine, A+D, New Architecture, Tokyo Bay Experiments, Architecture and Science, and others. Recent projects include the Howland Lake Residence in Bedford, NY. He is the Director of Research of the Non-Linear Systems Organization (NLSO) at the School of Design.
Nebojsa Seric-Shoba is an artist born in Sarajevo currently living and working in New York City. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions and also has been active as a curator and writer. Currently his art can be seen at Mass MoCA in the exhibition A Historic Occasion: Artists Making History. He participated in Artist and Weapon at Laznia Center for Contemporary Art in Danzig (2006), Greater New York at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (2005), Boundless Border at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, and Art and War and In Search of Balkanija both at Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz in 2003 and 2002 respectively. In 2000 his work was presented at Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and De Appel in Amsterdam and in 1999 at Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art and Casino Luxembourg ¬ Forum d'art contemporain. In 1998 he participated in Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg. His work often establishes a direct confrontation between art and war, and between the "law" of art and the "law" of war. Accordingly, an unfinished project of his, in which "I dig trenches in 1994 on the front line where I happened to be, in the shape of Piet Mondrian's painting Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43)," raises the question of whether one should die for art, because on the front line "one was dying for nothing."
Teddy Cruz’ work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerge out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. Teddy’ Cruz has been recognized internationally in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar for its work on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city. He obtained a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University and the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. He has recently received the 2004-05 James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize and is currently an Associate Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD in San Diego.
Shumon Basar is a writer, curator, editor and educator based in London who studied at Cambridge University and the Architectural Association. He worked for the Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid (1996-99) and is now co-director of the curatorial/design group Newbetter, an editor at fashion/culture quarterly Tank and co-founder of the print-event collective sexymachinery. Since 2006, he directs the new Curatorial Practices and Cultural Projects initiative at the Architectural Association in London, having run a design unit there from 2000 onwards. He also co-directs the AA Summer Architecture School, and lectures at the Royal College of Art and the London Consortium on contemporary culture. Basar is a Ph.D candidate in the newly established Research Architecture programme at Goldsmiths College, London, where he is developing material from the show Can Buildings Curate. He has written for Modern Painters, ArtReview, Blueprint, The Sunday Telegraph and Domus, and is co-editor, with Markus Miessen, of the anthology Did Someone Say Participate: An Atlas of Spatial Practice (MIT/Revolver, 2006).
Helene Furjan is an Assistant Professor, Penn School of Design, where she teaches history, theory, and design of architecture. She also has practices with the firm Jeremy Leman, which received a national design award in New Zealand in 1992. She was involved in the winning installation for the Venice Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1991, received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2001, and has received fellowships and grants for her scholarly work from numerous institutions, including the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and the Fulbright Commission. Helene has taught at Rice University, UCLA, SCI-Arc the Architectural Association, the Bartlett (University College of London), and Princeton University, and has had essays and reviews published in journals including Gray Room, AAFiles, Assemblage, Casabella, and Journal of Architecture. She has recently published Crib Sheets: Notes on the Contemporary Architectural Conversation, co-edited w. Sylvia Lavin (New York: Monacelli, 2005), and has essays forthcoming in Softspace (Routledge), Intimate Metropolis (Routledge), and the MAC Center exhibition catalogue, Gen(H)ome, co-written with biologist Peter Jones (IME, UPenn). She is also currently working on a book on John Soane’s house-museum. Helene is also co-curator of PAN with Winka Dubbeldam, an exhibition of five contemporary practices. Her current research investigates special effects, networks, complexity theory, and epigenesis in architecture.
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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