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23 November 2005
Lecture UERJ / Rio de Janeiro



Institute of Arts, State University Rio de Janeiro

quarta-feira 23 de Novembro
17hs – Instituto de Artes – 11º andar / Bloco E

‘ThinkArchitecture’
com os arquitetos Peter Mörtenböck e Helge Mooshammer

Nos últimos dez anos, ThinkArchitecture tem conduzido e desenvolvido uma ampla gama de projetos interdisciplinares de arte/arquitetura em territórios urbanos, incluindo trabalhos no Borough of Southwark, em Londres (Authorising Space), em um local de fábricas abandonadas, em Viena (7 Days in Paradise), o ancoradouro de Brooklyn Bridge, em Nova York (CruiseScapes) e diversas outras áreas urbanas. Trabalhando com comunidades locais, ThinkArchitecture gera diálogos através de workshops, exposições e debates públicos, e produz estruturas arquitetônicas como recursos para habitações temporárias.

Peter Mörtenböck e Helge Mooshammer vivem e trabalham em Londres e Viena.

Peter Mörtenböck é atualmente Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow no Departmento de Culturas Visuais, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London (2005-2007).
Helge Mooshammer é arquiteto e palestrante da Universidade de Tecnologia, Escola de Arquitetura e Planejamento Urbano de Viena.

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quinta-feira 24 de novembro
18hs – 5º andar / Auditório 53
“A próxima Documenta de Kassel”
com o curador Roger Buergel

Roger Buergel é o curador da próxima documenta de Kassel, a ser realizada em 2007. Nesta apresentação, o curador alemão abordará seu projeto para a documenta 12, trazendo alguns tópicos que serão discutidos na mostra.

Roger Buergel nasceu em 1962, na Alemanha Ocidental.
Desde 2001 é Conferenciasta de Teoria Visual na Universidade de Lüneburg, Alemanha. Reecebeu o Prêmio Walter Hopps para Projetos Curatoriais, The Menil Collection, Houston. Entre 2003 e 2005 realizou o projeto “Die Regierung [The Government]”, que compreendeu exposições na University Art Gallery Luneburg (Alemanha), Macba (Museu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona), Miami Art Central (MAC), Secession, Vienna, e Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.

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27 October 2006
CRUISING / Berlin

	BOOK LAUNCH / BUCHPRÄSENTATION Helge Mooshammer Cruising - Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures Donnerstag 27. Oktober 2005, 19.30 Uhr im Rahmen der Ausstellung "geheimsache:leben" Neustifthalle 1070 Wien, Neustiftgasse 73-75

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23 Septemer 2005
Recycling Culture, Barcelona

RECYCLING CULTURE / EL RECICLAJE DE LA CULTURA
XI CULTURE & POWER INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (21-22 September 2005) and
Universitat de Barcelona (23 September 2005)

Culture survives today by means of constant recycling, in an optimistic attempt to overcome its own decadence in the 21st century. This conference addresses this topic from a variety of positions within Cultural Studies, dealing specifically with issues including the following:

trash culture and/or the trashing of culture
reinventing identities
recycled bodies
cultural hybridity
collage and pastiche
cut’n’paste culture in the internet
academic fashions and Cultural Studies theory



23 September 2005
Universitat de Barcelona – Facultat de Lletres: Aulari Nou

Cultures of Reinvention
ThinkArchitecture (Peter Mörtenböck/Helge Mooshammer)

Discussions of contemporary culture are increasingly guided by a desire for the invisible, for potentialities of experience outside established paths and given material representations. A cultural practice of such kind, cruising (through its involvement of body and sexuality) appears to be able to radically transform the meaning of inconspicuous spaces without necessarily employing material objects. Its presence is continuously rearticulated by ways of projection, superimposition and improvised appropriation. As cruising can neither be stabilised visually nor be conceived of as a landscape’s inherent property, it challenges traditional archival and geographical economies. In our presentation we shall discuss this coming together of landscape, tourism, sexual desire, epistemological research and architectural vision as they encounter each other in the open air cruising grounds of Torre del Lago Puccini in Italy’s Versilia region.

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3-10 July 2005
Chatroom Architectures of Co-Existence / Istanbul

Cities: Grand Bazaar of Architectures
UIA - XXII. World Congress of Architecture, Istanbul

'Bazaar' as a metaphor, accommodates both positive and negative ideas. The positive aspects are plurality, unity in diversity, competition in solidarity and festivity, while their negative counterparts point to commercialisation, commodification, fierce consumerism, and chaos. Architecture is first and foremost a cultural capital, the most tangible one, precipitating and solidly materialising in cities. If cities are the marketplace of such an invaluable resource, the need for their careful design and management is pressing. In spite of the overwhelming amount of funds allocated for the construction and rehabilitation of cities, the end result is often a low quality living/working environment due to the lack of expertise, creative thinking, and consideration for social justice.

The UIA Istanbul congress is an opportunity to review the global agenda of architecture. During past decades, the agendas of world architecture have recurrently focused on the concept of sustainable development, with cultural and bio-diversity taken as the bases of humanity. Today, against a background of natural disasters and global violence, we are ever more aware that our plural worlds are not immune to risks escalating globally on this single planet. It is this awareness of threats that affect everyone without discrimination that clusters the utopian proposals of today around the interrelated themes of ecology and democracy. The emergence of a "utopian ecological democracy" is said to be the essence of a new modernism.

The UIA 2005 Congress in Istanbul ventures to provide a platform where world architects can openly share their successes and failures, resistances and submissions, experiences and visions. With the awareness of belonging to a profession that constructs the spaces for life, architects will endeavour to establish new links with the decision makers, producers and consumers of the world’s cities.


4 July 2005, 10:20 - 11:45 am
ITU, Taskisla Campus

Chatroom
Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer:
Architectures of Co-Existence: Competing cultural narratives and the new contested spaces of Europe

The chatroom ‘Architectures of Co-Existence’ discussed how urban space develops into a site of migratory co-existence and cross-cultural networking. What is at stake in this ‘bazaar of fleeting identifications and chance encounters’ is the emergence of a new way of thinking through the problematics of location in relation to a new world order dominated by transterritorial forces and invisible power trajectories. Through the chatroom we examined how ‘expanded’ architectural practices critically negotiate the boundaries between cultures and identities, the local and the global in favour of an aesthetics/ethics of encounter, proximity and involvement. How can such practices instigate not only intercultural dialogue but also models of intercultural competence and cohabitation? These practices from across Europe bring together a deeply fragmented cultural geography and subjectivities in crisis with migratory trajectories and the conflicting implications of globalisation, virtualisation and digitisation. Looking at the ways in which a variety of innovative architectural and art projects re-conceptualise urban co-existence through participatory forms of spatial practice, we used these phenomena to rethink the production of space and knowledge through the dynamics and effects of cultural difference. One of the outcomes of the chatroom is a cartography of socio-spatial inclusion/exclusion which will become part of the research project.

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3.-4. February 2005
Strategies of (In)Visibility, Camden Arts Centre, London

Strategies of (In)Visibility

Thursday 3 February 2-10pm
Friday 4 February 10-6pm

Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG

Numerous contemporary political and/or artistic practitioners take up invisible strategies to carry out their actions. Examples of these strategies include graffiti work, guerrilla gardening, culture jamming, independent web networks, impromptu stand-ins, sit-ins and pretence replacement. This conference will address the following issue: what does it mean to retain a deliberately invisible strategy in order to carry out a project or an intervention and what consequences does this have on our sense of order, the hegemonic politics of representation and on the constitution of the archive?

A conference on art, activism and other clandestine practices organised by Republicart and the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College.

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InterseXions
12-13 November 2004

InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads

Organized by the Queer Caucus for Art of the College Art Association and The Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University New York

12 – 13 November 2004
CUNY, Graduate School and University Centre
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City

Building on the momentum developed around the nationwide “Queer Visualities” conference at SUNY-Stony Brook in late 2002, this conference brings together artists, historians, critics and curators with an interest in queer visual culture, from a wide geographic and cultural spectrum. It is intended to provide a forum for the voices and images of contemporary practitioners in all media, and to spotlight new developments in art-historical research, criticism and theory, museums and galleries. We hope that this gathering, the largest of its kind ever undertaken, will foster exchange of ideas about historical and contemporary arts, and encourage cross-fertilization among disciplines and between writers and artists, theory and practice.

What are the pleasures, perils, and politics attending queer visual cultures in the 21st century? From some angles, it may seem, we’ve moved on. Several decades of making, thinking, and writing have helped both to enable work beyond the area traditionally delimited as “art” and to reimagine work within the canon. Meanwhile, a certain queer visibility has gone mainstream in some contemporary contexts. Yet advances in visibility have sometimes served to obscure as much as to challenge injustices, and to perpetuate exclusions and oppressions among people whose erotic, political, and social lives might be considered queer.

What now? How might we continue to foster critical, novel, and challenging work? How do we deal with the ways in which representations of queerness often abet the prerogatives of certain privileged groups (academia, white men, urban elites), while at other times “queer” is so widely adopted that it becomes little more than an umbrella term for amorphous ambiguity? What productive shifts and insights emerge in the practices of intersectionality, diversity, and inclusion? How can queer approaches make a difference about such matters as racial and ethnic discrimination, the intersexed body, transgender practices, feminist work, the fashion and comfort of consumption, and geographic differentiation? How and how much might our queer projects participate in a compelling critique of racism, imperialism, colonialism, and other forms of brutalizing institutional, cultural, and/or ideological inequity?

How can we claim, enjoy, and study sex, perversities, and pleasures as key features of the work that we do? What about further queering the visual studies archive? What traditional forms and objects can bear new queer perspectives? Are there other forms (ephemera, performance, the digital) that might be seen as queer or seen queerly?


Friday, 12 November 2004,  11:15 – 1:30 pm
THE AESTHETICS OF CRUISING

Chair Jonathan Weinberg
Jonathan Weinberg (Clark Art Institute): Pier Groups
ThinkArchitecture (Vienna, Austria): Cruising Visual Cultures
Simon Leung (University of California-Irvine): Opera, Public Space, Anonymous Sex
Tirza True Latimer (Kensington, CA) and E.G. Crichton (Artist, San Francisco): Lesbian Mating in the Post-Alcoholic Era

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13 September 2004
Visualising Paradise, Leeds

Visualising Paradise: the Mediterranean
Centre for Mediterranean Studies & AHRB Centre CATH, Leeds University

13 – 15 September 2004

A three-day international conference – Visualising paradise: the Mediterranean – is being hosted by the Centre for Mediterranean Studies from September 13-15. The conference will explore the influences that have created idealised notions of the Mediterranean region and some of the realities that underlie them.

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3 April 2004
Queering the Archive, Nottingham

AAH – Association of Art Historians
Annual Conference 2004
Old/New?

The 30th AAH Annual Conference,‘Old/New?’ will be held at the
University of Nottingham
from Thursday 1 April - Saturday 3 April 2004

The Association of Art Historians was founded in 1974 and has since grown to include over 1000 members worldwide. To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Association the 2004 annual conference will explore the theme of 'Old/New?'.


Academic session:
Queering the Archive

Over the past twenty years or so, scholars have developed various ways of analysing the play of queer desire and identity within the history of art and visual culture. Some approaches have privileged positivist methods of historical interpretation by seeking to uncover unknown or disregarded archives– including private, sub–cultural, underground or pornographic materials – in developing fresh knowledge of gay and lesbian artistic lives and artworks of the past. Others have been drawn, via psychoanalysis, to analysing the silences and omissions within the historical record itself as symptomatic of psycho–sexual meaning or repression. Others still, influenced more by deconstruction and queer/performance theory, have critiqued the archival reliance on documentary evidence and, in motioning towards more ephemeral ciphers and registers of sexuality, have called for a reappraisal of the very expectation that sexuality might be ‘evidenced’ at all within the visual field.

Session convenors:
Gavin Butt, Goldsmiths, London
Richard Meyer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

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