Liam Young: Hello, City!

Vortrag Architektur Klasse
Liam Young: Hello, City
Freitag, 30 Juni 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

Digital technologies are radically reshaping our perception and occupation of cities. Join speculative architect Liam Young and an all-seeing smart city operating system as they take a tour in a driverless taxi through a network of software systems, autonomous infrastructures, ghost architectures, anomalies, glitches, and sprites, searching for the wilds beyond the machine.

The talk will be an audio-visual expedition to a city found somewhere between the present and the predicted, the real and the imagined, stitched together from fragments of real landscapes and designed urban fictions.

Liam Young is a speculative architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is cofounder of Tomorrows Thoughts Today, an urban futures think tank, exploring the local and global implications of new technologies and Unknown Fields, a nomadic research studio that travels on expeditions to chronicle these emerging conditions as they occur on the ground. He has been acclaimed in both mainstream and architectural media, including the BBC, NBC, Wired, Guardian, Time, and Dazed and Confused, is producer of a BAFTA nominated film and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has taught internationally at the Architectural Association, Princeton University and now runs an MA in Fiction and Entertainment at SciArc. Liam's narrative approach sits between documentary and fiction as he focuses on projects that aim to reveal the invisible connections and systems that make the modern world work.

Liam Young is also going to be part of a conversation on VIRTUAL REALITY – SUBJECT, IMAGE, SPACE hosted by SAC at the NODE17 festival on July 1, 2017 from 11:30 - 17:30.
The conversation will address the role of VR for artistic and architectural practice and Liam Young will contribute to the discussion based on his ground-breaking experimentation with new technologies as cinematic tools for a narrative approach to architecture.
For more information: nodeforum.org

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Farshid Moussavi: Working With Time

Architektur Klasse - Dean’s Honorary Lecture
Farshid Moussavi: Working With Time

Donnerstag, 13. Juli 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula 

The Rektor of Städelschule, Professor Philippe Pirotte, and the Städelschule Architecture Class are proud to announce this year’s Dean’s Honorary Lecturer: Farshid Moussavi.

Farshid Moussavi RA is an architect, principal of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA) and Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. At FMA, Moussavi has completed her first USA commission, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, the flagship store for Victoria Beckham in London, and an installation at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2012). Moussavi is currently working on a wide range of prestigious projects including a residential complex in the La Défense district of Paris (under construction), a residential complex in Montpellier, as well as an office complex in the City of London.

Moussavi was previously co-founder of the London-based Foreign Office Architects (FOA), where she co-authored many award-winning projects including the Yokohama International Cruise Terminal and the Spanish Pavilion at the Aichi International Expo in Japan. FOA was also part of the team that designed the Olympic Park and its legacy vision for the Lee Valley as part of the London bid to the International Design Committee.

Educated at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, University College London and Dundee University, Moussavi has taught and served as External Examiner in academic institutions worldwide. She was a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture between 2004 and 2015 and has been a trustee of the London Architecture Foundation and the Whitechapel Gallery in London since 2009. She was elected a Royal Academician in 2015 and has published three books, The Function of Ornament, The Function of Forms, and the Function of Style, based on her research and teaching at Harvard.

The Dean’s Honorary Lecture was introduced in 2006 as a celebration of architecture at the Städelschule Architecture Class’ annual end of year review of student work. The series seeks to honour a person whose contribution to the architectural discipline has been seminal in professional, academic and/or institutional terms. Since its introduction, the annual lecture has been given by: Mark Wigley (2006), Mohsen Mostafavi (2007), Greg Lynn (2008), Brett Steele (2009), Jeffrey Kipnis (2010), Sanford Kwinter (2011), Alejandro Zaera-Polo (2012), Beatriz Colomina (2013), Elizabeth Diller (2014), Benedetta Tagliabue (2015), and Bernard Tschumi (2016).

This year, the Dean’s Honorary Lecture is part of the celebration of the Städelschule’s 200-year jubilee: http://www.staedelschule.de/programm.html
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.


**The Dean’s Honorary Lecture by Sir Peter Cook is unfortunately cancelled. Instead, Farshid Moussavi will give this year’s honorary lecture.**

**Leider fällt der Vortrag in der Reihe Dean’s Honorary Lecture von Sir Peter Cook aus. Stattdessen wird Farshid Moussavi den Ehrenvortrag halten.**

Daniel Birnbaum

Vortrag
Daniel Birnbaum: Too Early, Too Late: Freud, Duchamp, af Klint
Dienstag,  20. Juni 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

Late Arrivals. A certain kind of delay seems to be part of Hilma af Klint’s art, something she planned meticulously. She limited her exchange to a tight group of clairvoyants hiding in a studio far up in northern Europe and wrote a testament that produced further deferments. In other words, her version abstraction had no public exchange. Her art if one of late arrivals.

Compare this to another master of delays: it has been argued that we can properly understand the ‘Duchamp effect’ only in terms of the temporality of trauma. Avant-garde art, and not only that of Duchamp – the creator of a legendary ’delay in glass’ – was never historically effective or fully significant in its initial incarnation, because it constituted a traumatic break with the past and, as trauma, can be comprehended only through repetition and delay. Freud described this temporal phenomenon as “deferred action.” The traumatic event is never perceived as present, as something happening right now, but registered only after the fact, according to a rule of necessary delay.

We all know that the temporality of art isn’t linear but characterized by precisely these sorts of repetitions and syncopations, detours, and delays. Sometimes they real revolutions in art remain invisible until they are long over, and the subterranean shock waves can travel for generations.

Daniel Birnbaum is the director of Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Professor of Philosophy at the Städelschule which he was directing from 2000–2010.

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Michael Dean

Vortrag
Michael Dean
Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

Ausstellungseröffnung
Michael Dean: Teaxths and Angeruage
Freitag, 30. Juni 2017, 19h, Portikus

Alongside his work in sculpture, a core element of Michael Dean’s production is his work in text. Each of the British artist’s sculptures evolve from intimate and observational texts that accompany and typographically envelop the sculpture and regularly assume a live dimension. Thick books of writings are found among the sculptures in his exhibitions, their texts partly representing the starting point of his work and partly inviting interrogation of the sculpture within something of a vocabularic, suggestive mechanism or framework.

In his lecture at Städelschule Michael Dean will talk about his work as well as his latest installation as part of Skulptur Projekte Münster and his upcoming exhibition at Portikus, titled Teaxths and Angeruage.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Laurence Rickels: All You Vampires

Vortrag
Laurence Rickels: All You Vampires
Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

The contest at the start of the new millennium between identification with the undead and thrill-a-kill consumerism of the living dead separates out the science fiction of a vampirism epidemic in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend. The application of science fiction in the US reception of modern vampirism, which was largely introduced through Browning’s Dracula, contributed to the rise of the modern movie zombie out of the massification of undeath. Along the track of sole survival, the last human and the vampire are conjoined in mourning.

Gotthard Günther pursued a metaphysics of science fiction according to which the new world was the staging area, in preparation since the age of discovery, for a civilization that would be planetary going on interplanetary. According to Günther, both the zombie and, interchangeably, the mechanical brain signal a new American way of death that cuts loose from the metaphysics of the regional civilizations (last seen in Europe). In rehearsal since Hamlet the intergalactic civilization to come must carry forward to the final frontier of living death mourning’s secular import, which counts down between first and second deaths.

Laurence Arthur Rickels (b. 1954) is a psychotherapist, theorist, and literary scholar, who taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara (German and Comparative Literature) for thirty years. He is the Sigmund Freud professor of philosophy and media at The European Graduate School / EGS and emeritus professor not only at the University of California but also at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, where he served six years as professor of Kunst und Theorie (Klaus Theweleits successor). Recently he was appointed as the Eberhard Berent Visiting Professor and Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University for the spring 2018 semester.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Johan Bettum: Grammar of the Ineffable. The Subject

Vortrag Architektur Klasse
Johan Bettum: Grammar of the Ineffable. The Subject
Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

The history of architecture appears largely as the history of form: Decorated and non-decorated form, the form of decoration itself, tectonic form - to mention just some of its historical variants. And of recently there has emerged a renewed interest in architectural form predicated by a philosophical enquiry into the status of the object. In extension of so-called “object oriented ontology” or “speculative realism,” architecture entertains an interest in “weird” realism and “strange” objects, which soon also includes “strange” forms.

However, any version of architectural form is only one part of the story; its assumed converse, space, being the other. While contemplating or entering architectural form, we occupy space. Yet, its nature remains as evasive as it was when our contemporary notion of space first emerged in architectural theory at the end of the nineteenth century.

This lecture traces our architectural notion of space back to this origin, in the process contextualising it relative to the problem of form and - indirectly - formalism in architectural design. It positions our idea of space in a copious context, so fully saturated with information and matter that the design space, the space in which we work, is full to overflowing with input, opportunities but also responsibilities. This saturated space is at once both a material and immaterial phenomenon.

The lecture pursues - perhaps in vain - a hidden structure underlying our experience of spatial constructs. It does so by briefly discussing three art works and a few architectural projects to suggest that architecture may be understood in a choreographic sense. That is, by spatially situating a double subject - that is, the architect designer as well as the experiencing subject - relative to architectural form, architecture emerges as, to paraphrase the dancer and choreographer William Forsythe, ‘a choreographic object.’ In consequence, aiming to loosely define a spatial paradigm based on the notion of choreography in saturated space, the subject appears compelled to move and be moved in space, as if caught in a dense meshwork of information and matter, of input and output.

Johan Bettum is a professor of architecture and the program director of the Städelschule Architecture Class.

Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache 

Albert Oehlen: Dr Ö and the three million ???

Ringvorlesung Institut für Kunstkritik:
Do it yourself. Deskilling and Reskilling in the Digital Techno Age

Albert Oehlen: Dr Ö and the three million ???
Montag, 12. Juni 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

The lecture takes place within the frame work of the lectures-series, which is conceptualized by Isabelle Graw and revolves around the question of artistic skills in a digital world. What do they actually consist of? While it always mattered how an artist performs herself since the Modern Age, it seems that the „Auftritt des Künstlers“ (Beatrice von Bismarck), namely, her public staging of herself, has become increasingly important in a Media Society. Has the modeling of her „personality“ turned into a skill that is required from her? Or should one rather argue that artistic practices still represent other competences, attitudes and ways of life that question the ideal of an entrepreneurial self? What have traditional skills been replaced by?

It seems that the deskilling of the arts that is usually associated with the „Duchamp-effect“ and post war practices allowed for a reskilling that is currently quite popular in the artworld. Is it a historical necessity that deskilling entails reskilling? Historically speaking, „deskilling“ was a male privilege in the 1950´s and 1960´s. Many male artists opted for anti-subjective aleatory procedures that rejected skills, whereas women artists practiced another form of deskilling in the 1970´s by reintroducing formerly devaluated, „female skills“ into their work. Could one argue, at least in retrospect, that it is precisely these lower or soft skills associated with the sphere of reproduction that are have risen to the status of a valuable resource in our New Economy?

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Michael Young: Close Attention

Vortrag Architektur Klasse
Michael Young: Close Attention
Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

One of the responsibilities of the discipline of architecture concerns the aesthetics of the background of reality. Architecture designs the objects and atmospheres that we typically engaged habitually in a state of distraction. This background of the everyday is typically what an architecture of novelty seeks to destroy through the introduction of a strong formal difference between the new and old. But, what if the more political position was to estrange the background. Such a project would require a different aesthetic focus, less attuned to a "close reading" than to thresholds of interest that spark "close attention".

In this lecture, historical examples in art, architecture, and cinema will be discussed in relation to the recent work of his architectural practice.

Michael Young is an architect and educator practicing in New York City where he is a founding partner of the architectural design studio Young & Ayata. Young & Ayata were awarded a Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record for 2016. In 2015 they received a first place prize to design the new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany. In 2014 they received the Young Architects Prize from the Architectural League of New York, and were finalists for the MoMA Young Architects Program at the Istanbul Modern.

Michael is currently an Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union. In the Fall of 2016 he was the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University. He has previously taught design studios and seminars at Princeton, SCI-Arc, Yale, Columbia, Syracuse, Pratt, Cornell and Innsbruck University. His work has been exhibited recently in New York, Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Istanbul, Milan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Princeton. Michael received his Master's Degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén Gª Grinda: Macronic

Vortrag Architektur Klasse

Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén Gª Grinda: Macronic
Freitag, 26. Mai 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

The lecture will verse about the articulation of new architectural vocabularies and formations coherent with the actual technological, social and cultural scenarios and a visit to AMID.cero9 recent projects. In this unprecedented global context, where every type of cultural material triggers a wild multiplicity of connections with other materials, things and situations, from people to machines to insignificant, abstract entities, the overall congruence, origin, connotations and meanings of these connections are no longer relevant to the way these materials are connected and what counts now is the universal instant access to this infinite ocean of information. The lecture will revisit the historical concepts of Third Natures and Macaronic Heteroglossia as renewed concepts capable to condense amid.cero9 recent proposals based in a both critical and optimist disciplinary attitude

amid.cero9 cultivates an afterpop approach to the contemporary notion of space that enlists sociology, technology, media, politics and representation in projects ranging from architecture (Cherry Blossom Pavilion in Jerte Valley, Spain, shown at the 12th Biennale di Venezia, Giner de los Ríos Foundation in Madrid, Diagonal80 Industrial Pavillion in Madrid) to design (ESA Pavillion), ecosystemic studies (The Magic Mountain in Ames, We as a plague in Rome, TRP in Venice) and hybrid urban projects (Aijalaranta in Jyväskylä, or Hhouse in Balearic Islands).

Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efren Gª Grinda are both architects and founders of amid.cero9. They are Guest Professors at SAC Städelschule Architectural Class, since 2016, Directors of an Option Studio at the GSD, Harvard University (2015-) and Diploma Unit Masters at the A.A. School, London (2009-). Previously they taught at the Institut für Kunst und Architektur Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. While teaching together in Madrid from 1998 till 2013 (in parallel at ETSAM and ESAYA UEM) they have been visiting professors and lecturers throughout Europe, Asia and the US. Their projects have been widely disseminated and they have won more than 40 prizes in national and international competitions. Their projects and writings of the last fifteen years were documented in 2014 in a publication entitled “Third Natures, a Micropedia” and an exhibition at the AA, London. 

Recent projects include Golden Balloon for MOT Tokyo, Palm Pavillion for Sharjah, United Emirates and Giner de los Ríos Foundation, the famous Institucion Libre de Enseñanza, Madrid.

Recently a monographic issue about their works have been published in El Croquis nº184.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Dario Gamboni: Ein Radioapparat im Empire-Stil: Reflektierte Konservierung der Vergangenheit in Künstler- und Sammlermuseen

Vortrag Curatorial Studies
Dario Gamboni: Ein Radioapparat im Empire-Stil: Reflektierte Konservierung der Vergangenheit in Künstler- und Sammlermuseen
Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2017, 18 Uhr, Campus Westend, IG-Farben-Haus, IG 411

Konservierung gehört zu den Aufgaben der meisten Museen und schließt allmählich die Geschichte und Substanz der Museen selbst mit ein, ihre Präsentation der Sammlungen und ihre Architektur. Daraus resultiert eine Spannung zwischen der Anpassung an sich stets verändernden Umständen und Erwartungen einerseits, Kontinuität und Selbstreflexivität andererseits. Vieles kann in diesem Kontext aus der Betrachtung von Künstler- und Sammlermuseen gewonnen werden, die sich ein unverändertes Weiterleben als Ziel geben und die Erinnerung an ihre Gründer, die Erhaltung von Kunst und Kultur erfinderisch und manchmal humorvoll pflegen.

Dario Gamboni is professor of art history at the Université de Genève. He is a honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Meret Oppenheim Prize 2006, and was a Fellow at CASVA, the Henry Moore Institute, and the Clark Art Institute. He has been a guest professor at the universities of Buenos Aires, Freiburg, Frankfurt, Mexico, New Delhi (JNU), Sao Paulo, Strasbourg and Tokyo, and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has curated and co-curated exhibitions, among which Iconoclash and Making Things Public in Karlsruhe (ZKM) and Une image peut en cacher une autre in Paris (Grand Palais). His publications include The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution (New Haven/London 1997), Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art (London 2002), The Brush and The Pen: Odilon Redon and Literature (Chicago/London 2011), and Paul Gauguin: The “Mysterious Centre of Thought” (French edn Dijon 2013, English edn London 2014).

Der Vortrag findet in deutscher Sprache statt

Sylvia Lavin: The Duck and the Document: True Stories of Postmodern Procedures

Vortrag Architektur Klasse
Sylvia Lavin: The Duck and the Document: True Stories of Postmodern Procedures
Freitag, 19. Mai 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

The Duck and the Document: True Stories of Postmodern Procedures will present an exhibition currently on view in Los Angeles that features a series of fragments, from handrails to façade panels, salvaged from canonic buildings of the late 20th century. 

Typically associated with drawing and the circulation of media images, postmodern architecture is generally understood to have been largely a matter of style and surface ornament, freed from the exigencies of political and technical systems by the force of architectural autonomy. The Duck and the Document challenges this view by embedding the expected imagery of postmodernity within materials that demonstrate the dense tangle of regulations, production specifications and technologies that constrained architectural design rather than liberated it. While these True Stories of Postmodern Procedures describe a less heroic and autonomous architect, they also produce a more persuasive account of architectural ingenuity as it sought to survive the bureaucratization not merely of the architectural profession but of the very idea of architecture. Featuring artifacts from the buildings and archives of Peter Eisenman, Deborah Sussman, Charles Moore, Mike Reynolds, SITE and others.

Sylvia Lavin is a critic, historian and curator whose work explores the limits of architecture across a wide spectrum of historical periods. She is Professor, Director of PhD Programs and former Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA and has taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia among other schools. She is a is a frequent contributor to journals such as Artforum, Perspecta and Log and among her books are Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture, Kissing Architecture and Flash in the Pan. Recent exhibitions include Everything Loose Will Land: Art and Architecture in Los Angeles in the 1970s, The New Creativity and The Artless Drawing. She has been recognized by many grants and awards, most recently from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Getty Research Institute and the Graham Foundation. She is currently working on The Duck and The Document: True Stories of Postmodern Procedure, an exhibition that originated at the Princeton School of Architecture Gallery as Salvage, is currently on view at the SCI-Arc Gallery and will appear an expanded form at the Canadian Center for Architecture in 2018.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Hélène Frichot: Posthuman Landscapes, Things and Thinkables

Vortrag Architektur Klasse

Hélène Frichot: Posthuman Landscapes, Things and Thinkables
Dienstag, 16. Mai 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

On the cover of Arch+ Journal of Architecture and Urbanism (volume 51, 2016), an image is featured of what appears to be a lumpen rock with grotto-like crevices, yet there is little indication of actual scale. The rock could be the size of a meteorite, or a piece of chewed up, spat out gum. Between 2009 and early 2011, at a women-only show called Elles at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, a small section of the exhibition was dedicated to female architects. In a glass vitrine clustered amidst the other exhibits, a model of ambiguous scale represented a sample of computationally generated architectures. It was composed of delicate, allusively biological curlicues set against a textured, arid ground. From 2005 onwards, coordinated as an astonishing matrix of connections around urgent matters of care pertaining to imperiled oceanic environments, a collective of 8000 people - mostly women - in 27 countries, began crocheting an enormous, distributed coral reef out of yarn, plastic and various discarded things. This globally distributed hand-crafted exercise is based on a geometric model of hyperbolic planes. While the three projects described above bear little resemblance to what we might conventionally identify as architecture, each one can be situated as a form of response to the ‘general crisis’ (environmental, economic, socio-political) of our contemporary posthuman condition.

Setting these three projects against the backdrop of what she calls "posthuman landscapes" and in relation to a conceptual account of things and thinkables, Frichot will ask what more could architecture potentially do to ameliorate our shared environment-worlds.

Hélène Frichot is an Associate Professor and Docent in Critical Studies in Architecture, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH, Stockholm, where she is the director of Critical Studies in Architecture. Her research examines the transdisciplinary field between architecture and philosophy. While her first discipline is architecture, she holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney (2004). Recent publications include: Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies, co-edited with Catharina Gabrielsson and Helen Runting (Routledge, 2017 forthcoming); How to Make Yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool (AADR, 2016); Deleuze and the City, co-edited with Catharina Gabrielsson and Jonathan Metzger (EUP, 2016); De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice, co-edited with Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist (Lexington Books, 2015).

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Sichtbarkeiten des Archivs

Symposium Curatorial Studies
Sichtbarkeiten des Archivs
Ein Studientag anlässlich der Einrichtung des Archiv Peter Roehr am MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
Donnerstag, 1. Juni, 20 Uhr - Freitag, 2. Juni, 9.30 – 17 Uhr

Wie können Archivbestände sichtbar gemacht werden? Aus unterschiedlichen, institutionellen Perspektiven wird das spezifische Potenzial diskutiert, das Archivmaterialien in Museen und Ausstellungen entfalten können. Als Exponate ermöglichen sie andere mediale und historische Zugänge zu künstlerischen Reflexionen und Diskursen, zu Ausstellungs- und Sammlungsgeschichten und sind mehr als ein bloßer Dokumentationsgegenstand. Zudem ermöglicht die Digitalisierung eine breite Zugänglichkeit für den wissenschaftlichen Umgang mit den Forschungsmaterialien. Anlass für den Studientag ist die Präsentation ausgewählter Materialien aus dem Archiv Peter Roehr im MMK und die Freischaltung einer Onlinedatenbank als digitaler Zugang zu dem gesamten Archivbestand.

Programm

Donnerstag, 01.06.2017, 20 Uhr,
Goethe-Universität, Eisenhower Saal, IG 1.314

Sabine Breitwieser (Museum der Moderne Salzburg)
Für eine emanzipierte Öffentlichkeit: Archive und Sammlungen erschließen

Freitag, 02.06.2017, 9.30–17 Uhr
MMK 1

9.30 Uhr
Peter Gorschlüter
Begrüßung

9.45 Uhr
Stefanie Heraeus und Christian Spies
Einführung

10 Uhr
Heike Gfrereis (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach)
Das sichtbare Individuelle oder dreierlei Archive: Friedrich Schiller, W. G. Sebald und Ernst Jünger

11 Uhr
Paul Maenz, Mario Kramer und Nadine Hahn
Zum Archiv Peter Roehr mit gemeinsamem Besuch der Archiv-Schau im MMK 1

13.30 Uhr
Dietmar Elger (Gerhard Richter Archiv, Dresden)
Zum Archiv von Gerhard Richter

14.30 Uhr
Anette Kruszynski (Kunstsammlung Düsseldorf)
Kunstwerk oder Dokument? Das Archiv Dorothee und Konrad Fischer

16.30 Uhr
Mario Kramer (MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt)
Führung durch die Ausstellung „Primary Structures. Meisterwerke der Minimal Art“
(MMK 2 im Taunus Turm)

17.30 Uhr
Ende der Tagung

Eintritt frei.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.

Eine Kooperation der Curatorial Studies, des Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt und des MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main.

Gabi Schillig: Responsive Architectures: Dialogical Spaces

Vortrag Architektur Klasse

Gabi Schillig: Responsive Architectures: Dialogical Spaces

Donnerstag, 4. Mai 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

HOSTED BY FOUNDATION STÄDELSCHULE FÜR BAUKUNST

Not only our objects are becoming more virtual but also our spaces. Genuine common action and
communication, on the other hand, is closely linked to corporeality and to materiality, to the direct
experience of the impact and significance of an action. Humans, as sensual and living beings, and their relations and interactions with space they are a part of and which they influence through their actions, are at the core of Gabi Schillig´s artistic investigations.

The question of body, materiality and physicality becomes an important criterion: the choice of material and the development of structure not only affect the geometric and spatial properties of objects and spaces, but also transport multi-sensory and atmospheric aspects that can be used to enfold spaces of communication: within exhibition and interior spaces, spatial installations, through instruments and in urban environments and landscapes. 'Dialogical Spaces’ are performative spaces that invite the viewer to become an active participant. Interactions not only establish corporeal, time-based, spatial or object-based relationships but also communicative and social relations between people. They enable another kind of perception of space and enfold potential spaces in which experimental spatial constructs act as mediating structures and surfaces.


Gabi Schillig studied Architecture in Coburg and completed her postgraduate studies at the Städelschule Architecture Class in the early 2000’s with Prof. Ben van Berkel, before founding the Studio for Dialogical Spaces in Berlin. In the past she taught Space-Related Systems and Exhibition Design at the Berlin University of the Arts’ Institute for Transmedia Design, as well as in the Architecture Class at Städelschule Frankfurt. In 2012 she was appointed as Professor for Spatial Design at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences - Peter Behrens School of Arts (PBSA) at the Faculty of Design. Since 2015 she is the vice chairwoman of the Institute for Research in Applied Arts (IRAA) at the PBSA. Since 2005 she is teaching and lecturing in trans-disciplinary contexts, has exhibited internationally and received several fellowships and prizes, amongst others: Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart (2007-08), Van Alen Institute New York (2009), Nordic Artists´ Centre Dale (2010),Weissenhof Architekturförderpreis (2010), KHOJ International Artists´ Association New Delhi (2011) and Largodas Artes Rio de Janeiro (2015). In 2016 she was a resident fellow at the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. 

Both in her artistic work and teaching she investigates contemporary and future questions of spatial design such as the relationship between space and body, the emergence of spatial systems, the potentials of materiality and the experimental use of analogue and digital design methodologies. Her conceptual approach results in multi-sensory, dialogical structures and spaces of communication on multiple scales and in different spatial contexts. They lead to the concept of a multidimensional spatiality, based on social and physical processes and connect materiality and interaction in an immediate way.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt. 

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Theodore Spyropoulos: Behaviours

Vortrag Architektur Klasse
Theodore Spyropoulos: Behaviours
Donnerstag, 27. April 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

If science fiction has become fact, architecture today has to move beyond representation and the fixed and finite tendencies that declare what architecture should be and work towards what it could be. Within these evolving territories, by necessity new models must conceptualize our ever-evolving present and the uncertain and latent world within which we operate. The once comfortable and understood orthodoxies in architectural thinking have proven limited in their capacity to engage and address our contemporary condition.

Today, the intersections of information, life, and matter display complexities that suggest the possibility of a deeper synthesis. As we live in ever-evolving information-rich environments, the question is not why, but how architecture can actively participate. In this expanded field of experimentation, architecture should be understood beyond building, beyond materiality and the inert tendencies that conventionally define it. Architecture in this talk will be argued as a means to interrogate the contemporary condition and to provide a framework within which to operate.

Theodore Spyropoulos is an architect and educator. He is the Director of the Architectural Association’s world renowned Design Research Lab (AADRL) in London. He has been a visiting Research Fellow at M.I.T.’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and co-founded the New Media and Information Research initiative at the AA. Theodore has taught in the graduate school of UPENN, Royal College of Art Innovation Design Engineering Department and the University of Innsbruck. In 2002 he founded the experimental architecture and design practice Minimaforms. The work of Minimaforms has been acquired by the FRAC Centre, the Signum Foundation and the Archigram Archive, and has exhibited at MOMA, Barbican Centre, Detroit Institute of Arts, Onassis Cultural Centre and the ICA. Previously Theodore has worked as a project architect for the offices of Peter Eisenman and Zaha Hadid. In 2013 the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture awarded him The ACADIA award of excellence for his educational work directing the AADRL.

Spyropoulos returns to Städelschule to give this lecture after having previously been a visiting critic to the Städelschule Architecture Class End-of-Year Reviews.

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Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat

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Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat
Montag, 24. April 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat (both *1983 in Tel Aviv) have been working in collaboration for several years and are creating works in the audiovisual field. They are living and working in Brussels.

Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat's practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image. In their work they aim to mark the spatial and durational potentialities of reading of images – moving or still; the relations between spectatorship and history; and the temporality of narratives and memory.

In their lecture at Städelschule, Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat will talk about their practice and their projects, including Printed Matter (2011), an approximately 30-minute rear projection, which is part of the exhibition Slide show at Portikus.

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VOINA

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VOINA
Donnerstag, 20. April 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

VOINA is a Russian street-art group known for their politically motivated and wryly provocative 'actions', such as Banning of Clubs, 2008, in which the doors to an elite Moscow club were welded shut with an oxy-acetylene torch, and Palace Revolution, 2010, where police cars were flipped over on the pretext of retrieving a football lost by a child.

We are pleased to introduce VOINA members Natalia Sokol, Oleg Vorotnikov, and their three children for a lecture taking place in the Aula.

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Marina Rosenfeld

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Marina Rosenfeld
Dienstag, 14. Februar 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

Since the 1990s, Marina Rosenfeld, a New York-based artist and composer, has produced a dense oeuvre of sound works, installations and performative works, often involving the resonance and architecture of monumental spaces. Working at the limits of music composition and performance, but also corralling drawing and notation, Rosenfeld's pieces have foregrounded the complex of material and other conditions that define the situation where music is enacted. Since her early project the Sheer Frost Orchestra, an all-female electric guitar ensemble, her works for live performers, including teenagers, classical, military and experimental musicians, address structures of transmission and cooperation.

In her lecture at Städelschule Marina Rosenfeld will talk about her practice and her latest projects, including Free Exercise (2014-2016), a collective performance presented at La Biennale de Montréal as well as about her upcoming exhibition, titled Deathstar, at Portikus, which opens February 17, 2017 at 7 PM.

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Kerstin Stakemeier: Aller Jamais Retour. Art and Antisocial Socialization

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Kerstin Stakemeier: Aller Jamais Retour. Art and Antisocial Socialization
Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2017, 19 Uhr, Aula

“Aller Jamais Retour” is the mantra of Tabea Blumenschein and Ulrike Ottinger’s joined film project „Bildnis einer Trinkerin“ from 1979, in which the former plays a woman who travels to Berlin to drink herself to death. And she does so beautifully, acting out her public and private carouse as a flamboyant act of antisocial behaviour, that puts to shame the stereotypical social roles of female drinking as either a bourgeois privatized tragedy or a proletarian publicly displayed disgrace. Blumenschein and Ottinger propose an antisocial female, one whose role is non-reproductive and rather destructive – not (only) for herself but more so for the social order she exempts herself from. And they are far from alone in this endeavour.

There is whole a history of such antisocial forms in modern and contemporary art, stretching from the French Symbolists, to early Salvador Dalí, to the destruction art of the 1960s and Lee Lozano’s instruction pieces and paintings, all the way to more contemporary positions such as Ian White, Michaela Eichwald, Steve Reinke or Sidsel Meineche Hansen.

In “Aller Jamais Retour” I want to argue that specifically within a present tense that is marked by the de-socialization of modern forms of life, the idea of an antisocial art becomes of more and more interest. The history of an art that does not so much aim at mending the contemporary brutalisms, but rather reflects them back, formalizes and materializes them and fills them with divergent desires and affects. In this talk I want to look at a couple of examples of such an antisocial art to test out their relations and align their possibly shared forces.

Kerstin Stakemeier is a Berlin-based educator and writer. She works as a professor of Art Theory and Mediation at the Academy of Arts Nuremberg and contributes to Artforum and Texte zur Kunst a.o.. In 2016 „Reproducing Autonomy" (co-authored with Marina Vishmidt) came out, in 2017 „Entgrenzter Formalismus“ (Debordered Formalism) will be published, and the long-term exhibition and magazine project „Klassensprachen / Class Languages“ (with Manuela Ammer, Eva Birkenstock, Jenny Nachtigall, Stephanie Weber) will start with two group shows in Berlin and Düsseldorf and two magazine issues.

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