21st Century: Art in the First Decade
18 December 2010 – 25 April 2011
Queensland Art Gallery l Gallery of Modern Art, Australia
’21st Century: Art in the First Decade’ encompasses an exhibition, publication, blog and a series of public programs that explore the art of the past ten years. Marking the end of the first decade of the new millennium, the project will examine current directions in art practice and also reflect on the conditions for art and exhibition making in the 21st Century.
QUE FAIRE ? Art, film, politique – Du 11 au 19 décembre 2010, la plateforme curatoriale le peuple qui manque, en partenariat avec le Département FILM du Centre Pompidou, propose des rencontres intitulées « QUE FAIRE ? Art, film, politique». Offrant un état des lieux des nouvelles stratégies critiques qui se font actuellement jour au sein de la création internationale, et en premier lieu au sein de la production contemporaine des images en mouvement, ces rencontres s’intéressent aux relations entre art & politique.
Presentation of the film “Future Archeology” by Armin Linke & Francesco Mattuzzi / decolonizing architecture
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture
11.10.10
6:30PM – 8:30PM
WOOD AUDITORIUM, AVERY HALL
Organized by Felicity Scott, for the CCCP Program, GSAPP
Exhibition period: 25.September-24 October 2010
http://www.0047.org/
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The Red Castle and the Lawless Line: A legal-architectural fable of extraterritorial transformation
In 1993 a series of secret talks held in Oslo between Israeli and Palestinian representatives inaugurated what was later referred to as the “Oslo Process”. As is well known, this process defined three types of territories within the West Bank. Area A under Palestinian control, area B under Israeli military control and Palestinian civilian control, and area C under full Israeli control. When the process collapsed and the temporary organization of the occupied territories solidified into a permanent splintered geography of multiple prohibitions, a fourth place has suddenly been discovered.
Existing in between all others – it was the width of the line separating them. Less than a millimeter thick when drawn on the scale of 1:20,000, it measured more than 5 meters in real space. The project dives into the thickness of this line then follows it along the edges of villages and towns, across fields, olive and fruit orchards, roads, gardens, kindergartens, fences, terraces, homes, public buildings, a football stadium, a mosque and finally a large castle recently built. Within this line is a zone undefined by law, a legal limbo that pulls in like a vortex all different forces, institutions, organizations and characters that operate within and around it.
With areas A, B and C already claimed by different forms of cooperating governments that rule the West Bank, we see in the thickness of the line an extraterritorial territory, perhaps “all that remains” from Palestine, a thin but powerful space for potential political transformations. Political spaces in Palestine are not defined by its legal zones, but operate thoughts legal voids. Investigating the clash of geopolitical lines onto the domestic space of the castle, and operating on the margin between architecture, cartography and legal practice, we seek to bring up a case that calls for an anarchic regime of political autonomy to inhabit this line. It is in the extraterritorial dimension of these seam lines, small tears in the territorial system, that we see the possibility for tearing apart of the entire system of divisions.
Decolonizing Architecture, an architectural studio residency run by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman, has been in recent years engaged in a series of projects investigating and intervening in the extreme spatial conditions that exist within the Palestinian territories. Their projects propose transformation — some provocative others ironic — of the existing architecture of Israeli colonization. In the summer of 2010 they lead, in cooperation with UNESCO and Al-Quds/Bard University local authorities and NGOs an international residency and summer school in the village of Battir the West Bank. This project was dealing with the subversion of another powerful reality in the colonial matrix of control — its legal architecture. With their conceptual signature of working with but also subverting the existing order, they have proposed a new hopeful reality to inhabit this thinnest of geopolitical zones. The resulting installation is an architectural-legal claim that inhabits the space of gallery 0047 in the context of the Oslo Architecture Triennale.
Decolonizing Architecture (Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman)
Research by Nicola Perugini
Texts: Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman, Nicola Perugini
Delfina Foundation Residence: Lorenzo Pezzani
Architects and Artists in Residence: Luisa Cerlini, Elisa Ferrato, Suzanne Harris-Brandts, Benjamin Leclair-Paquet, Michael Baers, Amina Bech
Comics: Samir Harb
Coordination: Sonia Arw
The project was produced in the framework of Battir International Summer Program, a teaching research partnership between UNESCO/Battir Landscape Office and Al-Quds Bard Honors College.
With the support of UNESCO.
The Prince Claus Awards
The Prince Claus Fund’s Awards Programme celebrates and brings to public attention outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development. Awards are given annually to individuals, groups, organisations or institutions in recognition of their contribution within the Prince Claus Fund’s areas of interest.
Frontiers of Reality
The theme of the 2010 Prince Claus Awards is Frontiers of Reality. Within this context, the Prince Claus Fund has considered individuals and organizations whose exceptional performance not only challenges and changes the boundaries of our reality, but who, in doing so, contribute to the development of society. The ten laureates will be presented at ceremonies in their respective countries by Ambassadors of the Netherlands.
Decolonizing Architecture is honoured for introducing a non-traditional approach to development in conflict and post-conflict situations, for providing valuable speculation on the future realities of disputed territories, for its critical challenge to outdated urban planning theories based on a more peaceful world, and for highlighting the role of architecture and visualisation in creating and altering the frontiers of reality.
FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGY documentary, by Armin Linke and Francesco Mattuzzi, produced in the conceptual framework of Decolonizing Architecture
Official cinema premiere
When :: 09-09-2010
Where :: 67th Mostra Internazionale del cinema di Venezia (Venice, IT)
Room :: SALA PERLA
Time :: 05.15 pm
Opening : public, credited
The project of a 3D [stereoscopic] film by Armin Linke and Francesco Mattuzzi, completed with the visual effects created by Francesco Siddi, refers to the 19th century invention of the stereoscopic technology, that was developed exactly for archaeological and military purposes.
The use of stereoscopy offers a new dimension to the vision of space and to the understanding of colonization. The entire film becomes a sort of magic box in which the gaze travels across a surreal world that is possibly facing a moment of radical transformation. it is at the same time a document of a specific site in a specific period. As opposed to the images saturating our media screens, the stereoscopic visions linger over the banality of everyday life, revealing and unveiling the violence and drama of occupation.
The images together with the soundscape created by Renato Rinaldi, are accompanied by stories. These narratives make the landscape (and the imagination related to it) readable, recreating a dimension of lived places.
In 2007, after a few years of engaging in spatial research and theory, taking the conflict over Palestine as our main case study, we have decided to shift the mode of our engagement and establish an architectural institute based around a studio/residency program in Beit Sahour, Bethlehem. Decolonizing Architecture Institute (DAi) seeks to use spatial practice as a form of political intervention and narration. The work of the residency is based around a network of local affiliations and the historical archives we have gathered in our previous work. Our practice has to continuously engage with a complex set of architectural problems centered around one of the most difficult dilemmas of political practice: how to act both propositionally and critically within an environment in which the political force field, as complex as it may be, is so dramatically skewed. Is intervention at all possible? How could spatial practice within the “here and now” of the conflict negotiate the existence of institutions, legal and spatial realities without becoming complicit with the unequal reality they produce? How to find an “autonomy of practice” that is both critical and transformative?
The Delfina Foundation presents The Spacemakers, a group exhibition that explores artistic perspectives on the immediate challenges of creating a home, in some of today’s most diverse and harried urban landscapes.
With Taysir Batniji, decolonizing.ps (Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman), and Jawad al Malhi. Films and videos by Nikolaj Bendix, Hala Elkoussy, mounir fatmi, Bouchra Khalil, Judy Price, Basma Sharif and Solmaz Shahbazi.
The Spacemakers is taking place across two venues (Edinburgh College of Art – Tent Gallery and Sleeper). It is part of a biennial series of events produced by Beyond Borders Productions Ltd.
Edinburgh College of Art (Tent Gallery), Art Space & Nature, Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, 78 Westport, Edinburgh EH1 2LE: Mon – Fri, 10:00 – 17:00, Saturday: 11:00 – 17:00
sleeper, 6 Darnaway Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6BG: Mon – Fri: 10:00 – 17:00, Closed on Saturdays
30 July – 24 August
For press enquiries or images, please contact Claudia Wolf: claudia@delfinafoundation.com or +44 (0) 207 233 5344.
‘Forensic Architecture: Only the Criminal Can Solve the Crime’
Date: 16 June 2010
From: 6.00pm to 7.00pm followed by a reception.
Location: Clore Management Centre, Room B01
Free entry; booking required.
Please reserve a place by emailing Jason Edwards: j.edwards@bbk.ac.uk
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/sshp/news/paul-hirst-memorial-lecture-2010
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