'Learning from Architecture" posits the assumption that rather than learning about architecture, it could be an methodology through which we could learn about that which lies beyond it. A debate featuring Nikolaus Hirsch, Eyal Weizman, John Palmesino, Aristide Antonas, Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Jesko Jezer and more...

Fragments of a radical pedagogy: The third session of Urgent Thought features contributions by Oliver Marchart, Jan Verwoert and Dieter Lesage. It was recorded at the third day of SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture.

Fragments of a radical pedagogy: The second session of Urgent Thought features contributions by Jeebesh Bagchi, Franco Berardi, Angela Melitopoulos. It was recorded at the second day of SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture.

The first History Lesson at SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture featured a conversation between John Akomfrah and Kodwo Eshun. Black Audio Film Collective was founded at Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1982 by sociology, fine art and psychology students John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, Claire Joseph and Trevor Mathison. The group who later relocated to London produced some of the most influential films and videos of recent times before formerly dissolving in 1988.

Fragments of a radical pedagogy: The first session of Urgent Thought features contributions by Avery Gordon, Munir Fasheh, Ana Vujanovic. It was recorded at the first day of SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture.

Giorgio Agamben, renowned philosopher, engages in particular with language and social conflicts, teaches at the Universita IUAV di Venezia, College International de Philosophie, Paris. Among his books are: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive and The Open: Man and Animal. His most recent works are: State of Exception, and The Time that Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Der Begriff der "Entwurzelung" orientiert sich an dem von Pierre Bourdieu gewählten Begriff "Déracinement / Uprooting", der gleichzeitig den Titel eines von ihm in Zusammenarbeit mit Abdelmalek Sayad 1964 veröffentlichten Buches bildet. Gegenstand dieser Studie sind die tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen der französischen Kolonialpolitik (seit 1830) und des Unabhängigkeitskrieges (1954-1962) auf die algerische Bevölkerung.

This panel with Irit Rogoff and Lawrence Liang, moderated by Florian Schneider, took place on Oktober 11th 2006 in the context of the Workshop on "Collaboration". The Workshop took place at the Steirischer Herbst, from Oktober 7th - 13th 2006 and discussed and explored different notions on collaboration.

Saturday, July 22 2006

Eyal Weizman, israeli architect is going to formulate an "exergue" that will deal with the actual situation and build a connection to the first edition in Frankfurt.

Saturday, June 3 19:00 - 19:20
Proposal for a theatre of operations for the dictionary of war. Drawing package, references, materials.
"It was recognized that the chronologic development of these elements would vary from theater to theater. In theaters where a long buildup period was possible, a fairly elaborate system of communications zone sections or bases would develop well in advance of the rest of the theater elements."

Saturday, June 3 15:30 - 16:00
Two points seem to be particularly interesting when we think of neutrality as a mean to manage postcocolonial, ethnic, racial, gender, political, social, military, technological, cultural transitions, as a dispositf of change of the contemporary space, tuned to balance the conflictual forces that flare up in almost every human settlement.

Saturday, June 3 15:00 - 15:30
On NATO's misunderstanding of cultural history and its effects on the decision to bomb certain buildings in Belgrade.

Friday, June 2 17:30 - 17:55
"Conflicted/Inflicted" is a video based upon a found telephone answering machine tape belonging to someone named Linda. As we listen to the audio, the crisis and tensions in her life are slowly revealed.

Friday, June 2 16:30 - 16:55
An architectural arms race is a competition between two or more countries for supremacy through the means of architecture and urbanism. Each party competes to produce architectural imagery or concrete built form to achieve a relative gain over the other. Such gain could be accounted for either symbolically, or physically interfering with urban practices in the country of the opponent.

The video shows a slightly edited recording of the conversation between the theorist Irit Rogoff and the artist Kutlug Ataman.