Peter Cook

Vortrag
Peter Cook: Peter Cook and CRAB
Donnerstag, 21.06.2012, 19h, Aula

Sir Peter Cook is a world-renowned English architect, writer and educator. He was the Dean of the Architecture School at the Staedelschule, in the 1980s, injecting the programme with much of the experimental and international flavor that SAC stands for today. Cook, a pivotal figure within the global architecture world for over half a century, has been Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chair of Architecture at the Bartlett School of UCL and is Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Architecture, amongst other things.

Sir Cook is the director of CRAB Studio, formed in 2006. Since its inception CRAB has won competitions for the Verbania Theatre in Piedmont, Italy; the Law School of the Vienna Economics University and the School of Architecture building for Bond University in Queensland, Australia, amongst numerous other prizes including three versions of the Taiwan Tower in Taichung. CRAB studio is closely associated with the Bartlett and Architectural Association in London, ESA in Paris, Lund University in Sweden, and SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

Sir Cook is a founding member of the 1960s radical experimentalist group Archigram having previously graduated from the AA. His achievements with Archigram have been the subject of numerous publications and public exhibitions and were recognized by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2004, when Cook was awarded RIBA’s highest award, the Royal Gold Medal. In 2007, he was knighted. He has previously won the competitions for the Monte Carlo Entertainments Centre (with Archigram), the Historical Museum and Park in Bad Deutsches Altenburg, Lower Austria (with Christine Hawley) and the much-published Kunsthaus Graz (with Colin Fournier) completed in 2003.

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Vortrag
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Le Parc; An Illustrated Text for Two Voices
Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula

Initially realised as the second chapter of the artist’s book Café du Reve (published in 1985), this visual and spoken performance comprises a narrative read by one male and one female voice accompanied by 26 black and white slides.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz established himself in the 1970s with his evocative installations and performances. His installations have often included the artist’s photographs and his prototypes for fabrics, wallpaper and ceramics, as well as found objects and artworks by others. His work combines a sensitivity to the personal and the everyday with a highly developed sense of theatre and lifestyle. (ica.org)

Michael Riedel

Vortrag
Michael Riedel: 8 Kunst & Publikation
Dienstag, 12. Juni 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula

... ich spreche über meine Publikationen aus den Jahren 97 bis 2010 der Vortrag dauert fünfundvierzig Minuten das sind etwa dreihundertsiebzig Bilder die ich zeigen werde davon sind sechzig schwarz eine meiner ersten Publikationen 1997 war eine Papiertüte auf die ich meinen Namen geschrieben hatte sie ist entstanden anlässlich eines Vortrags den ich gehalten habe an der Städelschule während meines Studiums in dem Vortrag ging es um Möglichkeiten Entdecke die Möglichkeiten hieß es damals bei Ikea oder auch Das Leben ist voller Möglichkeiten Audi und Nichts ist unmöglich Toyota und mit zunehmendem Maße ging es um die Möglichkeit an sich und der Existenz die an der Möglichkeit zu existieren scheitert so hieß es zumindest damals im Vortrag und der Vortrag endet damit dass ich mir diese Tüte aufsetze und sage ich bin Michael Riedel Beschriftung ist immer etwas von außen angebrachtes und in diesem Fall bin ich derjenige der außen steht und sich selbst beschriftet mit anderen Worten ich bin nicht mehr nur der Künstler der Kunst macht sondern vielmehr auch der Künstler der sich beim Kunst machen zuschaut und das als Kunst versteht damit verschiebt sich auch die Position des Betrachters der jetzt zuschauen muss wie der Künstler sich selbst zuschaut beim Machen ... Auszug aus dem Text "Publikation" (veröffentlicht in "Perlstein" – Michael Riedel, Koenig Books London, 2011)

Michael Riedel is known for his conceptual practice of restaging prior events and re-presenting existing texts, objects and audio recordings. Over the past decade, the artist's highly conceptual practice has embodied a wide range of mediums and formats, including large-scale works on canvas, fabric works, film and video, audio recordings, artist's books, posters, installations and events.

Nairy Baghramian

Vortrag
Nairy Baghramian: Le Mépris. A talk without image-objects
Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula

“....If the idealizing view of the idea of a work’s autonomy effectively renders that work a subject in its own right, the structures surrounding the work of art—of which we, as beholders, are part—come under threat; we are as though under the work’s spell, responding to it like schizophrenics. At the same time, there is the danger that the art critic comes to believe that it is enough to negotiate matters in intimate exchange with the work alone: now it speaks for itself, now it is part of his or her concept: the work of art becomes a projection screen that talks back. This is necessary but should only be a starting point. ..“

Nairy Baghramian is a Berlin-based artist known for her sculptural installations and photographs. Selected solo exhibitions include: Formage de tête, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2011); The Serpentine Gallery, London (2010); Butcher, Barber, Angler & others, Studio Voltaire, London (2009); The Walker’s Day Off, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2008), Affairen. Ein semiotisches Haus, das nie gebaut wurde, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (2008); Es ist ausser Haus, Kunsthalle Basel (2006). She has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions at Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2011); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2011); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (2010); Museum Ludwig, Köln (2010); Tate Modern, London (2008) and at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2008).