SITES + SITUATIONS
SITES & SITUATIONS SERIES 2021
Situated Practice is a platform for exploring creative projects that are situated physically and engage with contemporary social, cultural, environmental and political conditions. As part of our 15-month Masters programme we ordinarily go on a fieldtrip somewhere as a group and explore interesting sites and situations in different cultural contexts. Due to ongoing Covid restrictions, this year we are compelled to change our patterns. In lieu of our in-situ fieldtrip, we plan to explore specific sites and situations virtually, led by amazing practitioners from around the world.
Confirmed Speakers:
Emeka Ogboh http://emekaogboh.art
Architecten Jan DeVylder Inge Vinck https://architectenjdviv.com
Forensic Architecture https://forensic-architecture.org
Jorge Otero-Pailos http://www.oteropailos.com/
Jennifer Walshe http://milker.org
Katrina Palmer https://artreview.com/review-katrina-palmer-end-matter-2015/
Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman http://estudioteddycruz.com
Xiaoyi Chen https://chenxiaoyi.net/Home
Zhang Kechun http://zhangkechun.com
Joseph Grima / Space Caviar http://www.spacecaviar.net
OPEN ACCESS VIDEO RECORDINGS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE AFTER THE SERIES ON:
SITES & SITUATIONS 1 / Emeka Ogboh
Time: Apr 29, 2021 11:30 London
Emeka Ogboh connects to places with his senses of hearing and taste. Through his audio installations and gastronomic works, Ogboh explores how private, public, collective memories and histories are translated, transformed and encoded into sound and food. These works contemplate how auditory and gustatory experiences capture existential relationships, frame our understanding of the world and provide a context in which to ask critical questions on immigration, globalization, and post-colonialism.
Ogboh has participated in numerous international exhibitions including documenta 14, (2017), Athens and Kassel, Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), the 56th edition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2015), and Dakar Biennale (2014).
Lagos soundscapes
https://soundcloud.com/danfotronics/sets/lagos-soundscapes/s-37GNbawXusl
Beyond The Yellow Haze
https://open.spotify.com/album/4EjBca2aqF7mMRkDkXSrNN?si=VXsbQp3SS3Osnn7Ylqh6Ow
SITES & SITUATIONS 2 / Forensic Architecture
Thursday May 13, 2021 - 11:00 London
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, investigating human rights violations including violence committed by states, police forces, militaries, and corporations. FA works in partnership with institutions across civil society, from grassroots activists, to legal teams, to international NGOs and media organisations, to carry out investigations with and on behalf of communities and individuals affected by conflict, police brutality, border regimes and environmental violence. Their investigations employ pioneering techniques in spatial and architectural analysis, open source investigation, digital modelling, and immersive technologies, as well as documentary research, situated interviews, and academic collaboration. Findings from our investigations have been presented in national and international courtrooms, parliamentary inquiries, and exhibitions at some of the world’s leading cultural institutions and in international media, as well as in citizen’s tribunals and community assemblies.
https://forensic-architecture.org/
SITES & SITUATIONS 3 / Jennifer Walshe
Thursday May 20, 2021 - 11:00 London
“The most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the past 20 years” (The Irish Times) and “Wild girl of Darmstadt” (Frankfurter Rundschau), composer and performer Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her music has been commissioned, broadcast and performed all over the world. She has been the recipient of fellowships and prizes from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, the Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstadt and Akademie Schloss Solitude among others. Recent projects include TIME TIME TIME, an opera written in collaboration with the philosopher Timothy Morton, and THE SITE OF AN INVESTIGATION, a 30-minute epic for Walshe’s voice and orchestra, commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. THE SITE has been performed by Walshe and the NSO, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and also the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance, her third solo album, was released on Tetbind in 2020. The album uses AI to rework canonical works from early Western music history. A Late Anthology was chosen as an album of the year in The Irish Times, The Wire and The Quietus. Walshe is currently a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart. Her work was recently profiled by Alex Ross in The New Yorker.
Website: http://milker.org/
Long and Granular Bio:
available here: http://milker.org/jenniferwalshebiography
SITES & SITUATIONS 4 / Xiaoyi Chen
Friday May 21, 2021 - 11:00 London
Xiaoyi Chen was born in Sichuan, China in 1992. She received an MA Photography from London College of Communication in 2014, currently lives and works in Chengdu. Her work based on photography but not confined to specific media, focusing on the subtle perceptions of human beings by producing images. And constantly challenge the established logic, perception and imagination to explore the existence itself. Xiaoyi Chen has exhibited internationally; she was awarded the Three Shadows Photography Award in 2015, China’s most prestigious photography prize, and named one of Asia’s 30 Artist under 30 by Forbes magazine 2017.
SITES & SITUATIONS 5 / Architecten JDVIV [jan de vylder inge vinck]
May 27, 2021 - 12:00 London
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SITES & SITUATIONS 6 / Jorge Otero-Pailos
Thursday May 27, 2021 - 14:00 London BST / 09.00 NYC
Jorge Otero-Pailos (1971, Spain) is a New York-based artist and preservationist best known for making monumental casts of historically charged buildings. Otero-Pailos draws from his formal training in architecture and preservation to create artworks that address themes of memory, history and transition, inviting the viewer to consider monuments as powerful agents for cultural connection, questioning and understanding. His site-specific series, The Ethics of Dust, is an ongoing, decade-long investigation resulting from cleaning dust and the residue of pollution from monuments such as the Doge’s Palace in Venice; Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament, London; the U.S. Old Mint in San Francisco; and Trajan’s Column at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Exhibitions include: Watershed Moment, Lyndhurst Mansion (2020/2021); Far Above, Cornell University's School of Architecture (2019); Répétiteur, New York City Center, New York (2018/2019); Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017/2018); The Ethics of Dust: Westminster Hall, Artangel, London (2016)
Otero-Pailos is the recipient of the 2021-22 American Academy in Rome Residency in the visual arts. He is also Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture in New York. He studied architecture at Cornell University and earned a doctorate in architecture at M.I.T.
http://www.oteropailos.com/
SITES & SITUATIONS 7 / Estudio Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Thursday June 10, 2021 - 17:00 London BST
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman are principals in Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego, investigating issues of informal urbanization, civic infrastructure and public culture, with a special emphasis on Latin American cities. Blurring conventional boundaries between theory and practice, and merging the fields of architecture and urbanism, political theory and urban policy, visual arts and public culture, Cruz + Forman lead variety of urban research agendas and civic/public interventions in the San Diego-Tijuana border region and beyond. From 2012–13 they served as special advisors on civic and urban initiatives for the City of San Diego and led the development of its Civic Innovation Lab. Together they lead the UCSD Community Stations, a platform for community-engaged research and teaching on poverty and social equity in the border region.
Their work has been exhibited widely in prestigious cultural venues across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; and M+ Hong Kong. They represented the United States in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. They co-edited Informal Market Worlds Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure (Rotterdam: nai010); and have two forthcoming monographs: Top-Down / Bottom-Up: The Research and Practice of Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman (Berlin: Hatje Cantz); and The Political Equator: Unwalling Citizenship (London: Verso).
http://estudioteddycruz.com
SITES & SITUATIONS 8 / Zhang Kechun
Thursday June 17, 2021 - 11:00 BST (London)
Zhang Kechun (born 1980) is best known for his large format photographs of post-industrial Chinese landscapes. He produces epic vistas that dwell on the significance of the landscape in modern Chinese national identity. He is represented in the United Kingdom by Huxley-Parlour Gallery.
Zoom Meeting Details:
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/98554689156?pwd=YXFlcmpVNGRPTEFGTllraW9JcEpVdz09
Meeting ID: 985 5468 9156
Passcode: MASP
SITES & SITUATIONS 9 / Katrina Palmer
Thursday June 24, 2021 - 11:00 BST (London)
Katrina Palmer is an artist best known for her investigations of sculptural materiality. She studied sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal College of Art, London, where she completed her PhD. She lives and works in London, England.
Palmer challenges what sculpture can be, often utilising live readings, site specific recordings and constructed environments. Her resulting unsettling installations examine presence, absence, memory and death.
In 2014 she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for artists, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award. Her works have been featured in several exhibitions, including Tate Britain and Hayward Gallery in London, plus a solo commission for Artangel. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford.
https://katrinapalmerartist.com/
Zoom Details
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/98554689156?pwd=YXFlcmpVNGRPTEFGTllraW9JcEpVdz09
Meeting ID: 985 5468 9156
Passcode: MASP
SITES & SITUATIONS 10 / Space Caviar - Joseph Grima
Thursday July 01, 2021 - 11:00 BST (London)
Space Caviar is an architecture and research studio operating at the intersection of design, technology, politics and the public realm. Founded by Joseph Grima and Tamar Shafrir, the office uses built work, exhibitions, publishing, writing and film to investigate and document contemporary modes of habitation and the spatialisation of social and political practice. Space Caviar’s work has been shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Biennale Interieur, Vitra Design Museum and the Munich Film Museum, among others.
Zoom Details
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/7726273412?pwd=a2VCNFNxM1VQbDd6TlZGV1o4aXRqQT09
Meeting ID: 772 627 3412
Passcode: MASP
