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SPACES BUILDINGS MAKE

Informal Architectures

Aoife Mac Namara ed., Phase 2, London: Frameworks Press, 2007.
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Peter's Smoking Room, an audio installation, Middlesex University, 
Cat Hill campus, front entrance, 2006. Copyright Andrew Kearney

Informal Architectures/Spaces Buildings Make

Tate Modern, Friday 16 February 2007, 10.30–15.30 [view webcast ]

Informal Architectures is the first part of a two-part international symposium which will be held at Tate Modern and followed by a second session at Plug In ICA, Canada, in February 2008. Part one (view webcast) addresses themes such as ruins, monumentality, nomadic culture, ecology and the cultural theory of space in a post-9/11 climate. Aoife Mac Namara’s paper The New Well-Tempered Building and Andrew Kearney’s research projects Data Digest and Peter’s Smoking Room will be presented at the symposium which will provide the Spaces Buildings Make research team with a unique opportunity to share and debate ideas with artists, architects and related practioners from across the UK, Canada, the US and other countries.

Other members of the Spaces Buildings Make research group presenting work at the symposium include Anthony Kiendl, Visiting Leverhulme Research Fellow and Director of Plug In ICA and Paul Antick, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, Middlesex University. Activities presented during both symposia are included in the Informal Architectures book; volume one of which is launched at The Banff Centre , Canada in June 2007, and volume two at Plug In ICA in February 2008.

Programme

  • Introduction: Welcome by Sara Raza, followed by Anthony Kiendl
  • Panel Discussion: Monuments and Ruin, Andrea Phillips (Chair), Arni Haroldsson, Paul Antick, Joel McKim
  • Panel Discussion: Spatial Imaginaries, Anthony Kiendl (Chair), Luanne Martineau, David Hoffos, Eleanor Bond
  • Panel Discussion: Environment and Nomadism, Shumon Basar (Chair), Candice Hopkins, Sara Raza, Aoife Mac Namara
  • Presentation: Jimmie Durham
  • Final Discussion: All speakers

The event has been organised in collaboration with Plug In ICA, Canada House Department of Foreign Affairs Canada, SSHRC, The Banff Centre and Middlesex University.

Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of England.

To view a webcast of the Informal Architectures symposium, click here

Luanne Martineau, Parasite Buttress, installation 2005
courtesy Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre

Data Digest, Performance/Installation in progress, Middlesex University, 
Cat Hill campus, refectory, March 2006. Copyright Andrew Kearney

Intersection, exploring the original intentions for the “snack bar”.  
Copyright Andrew Kearney

Nothing (Inflated Space),
Recreating an inflated profile of the original 70s building. 
Copyright Andrew Kearney

Assembled Landscape, an artificial construck boarding the campus. 
Copyright Andrew Kearney

All above images©Andrew Kearney 2006. Image below©Thomas Cuckle 2005.

The Notice Board Project, Thomas Cuckle, 2005

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