Laboratory for Research in Art and the Public Sphere
department of architecture | university of patras
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[Ινώ Βαρβαρίτη, Γιάννης Δελαγραμμάτικας, Φωτεινή Παλπάνα, Γιάννης Σινιόρογλου και Γιάννης Χειμωνάκης]
Counter-hierarchies
Σειρά Διαλέξεων Τέχνη / Αρχιτεκτονική στη Δημόσια Σφαίρα
Τρίτη 15 Δεκεμβρίου στις 4:30 στο Σ5
Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών
Κωνσταντίνος Χατζηνικολάου
Για τον Bruce
Super 8 | Slides | Τετράδια
Διαλέξεις Εργαστηρίου Τέχνης / Αρχιτεκτονικής στη Δημόσια Σφαίρα
Τρίτη 8 Δεκεμβρίου στις 4:00 στο Σ5
Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών
But today, rather than a space for including people from many diverse backgrounds and cultures, our global cities are expelling people and diversity. Their new owners, often part-time inhabitants, are very international – but that does not mean they represent many diverse cultures and traditions. Instead, they represent the new global culture of the successful – and they are astoundingly homogeneous, no matter how diverse their countries of birth and languages. This is not the urban subject that our large, mixed cities have historically produced. This is, above all, a global “corporate” subject.
The Bakara market area of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Next year’s Venice Biennale seeks to document those ‘working in the margins, under tough circumstances, facing pressing challenges’. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images
Image credit: Jan Kempenaers, Spomenik #3 (Kosmaj), 2006
Urban Encounters is pleased to announce its eighth annual conference focusing on street-based urban photographic practices. As part of a wider programme of events around London exploring critical ideas addressing how ‘the street’ might be experienced, imagined, represented, performed and archived; Urban Encounters hosts a number of international artists, photographers, urbanists and academics concerned with theorizing, researching and creating visual work around street spaces.
The conference panels re-examine what is traditionally understood by the genre of ‘street photography’, an increasingly popular but also highly contentious and at times, problematic set of practices. Speakers discuss issues relating to aesthetics; the politics and ethics of street-work; notions of locality and flow; performativity, mediation and the disruption of ‘authenticity’.
This year’s conference opens on Friday 23 October, 18.30–20.00 with a keynote address by London based artist Rut Blees Luxemburg, whose large-scale photographic works explore the public spaces of the city. The keynote event is followed by a drinks reception to celebrate the opening of this year’s Urban Photo Fest. The keynote on Saturday 24 October is given by internationally acclaimed sociologist Saskia Sassen. Further speakers include Mitra Tabrizian, Julia Schulz-Dornburg, Vanley Burke and Charlie Phillips. The second day of the conference also includes a series of breakout seminars designed to encourage audience participation within research, theory and visual practice, which aim to build upon the conference presentations and audience discussions. Only one seminar can be selected. Please book for the whole conference by following the link on your chosen seminar.
Urban Encounters is part of the five day Urban Photo Fest programme supported by Openvisor, the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, Kingston University and Photofusion.
Hilla Becher posing next to her photo series “Kühltürme” (Cooling towers) at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, in 2002. CreditDavid Ebener/European Pressphoto Agency
