urban occupation : berlin

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Public Movement explores the political and aesthetic possibilities residing in a group of people acting together. The movement operates in public spaces, studies and creates public choreographies, forms of social order, overt and covert rituals. Among Public Movement’s actions in the past and in the future: manifestations of presence, fictional acts of hatred, new folk dances, synchronized procedures of movement, spectacles, marches, inventing and reenacting moments in the life of individuals, communities, social institutions, peoples, states, and of humanity. It is a representative group, a selected team of artists, with the prospect of becoming a mass movement. Public Movement was founded in November 2006 by Dana Yahalomi and Omer Krieger.

at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Friday June 19

Midsemester Presentation  10:00 am - 03:00 pm

Lecture by Hannah Hurtzig, Mobile Academy / Black Market Archive, 04:00 pm

Invitation here> midsemester crit 19.06.2009

have a little look at a video about one of my installations in a gallery space in melbourne, at Craft Victoria. the video isn’t that great, as it actually did not capture much of the moving images of the projection, nor the video in the background, and just very briefly of the concerts in the space, nevertheless might be interesting for you to se it; please watch it here on youtube!

Please make sure you upload the pdf files with your concepts of the presentation in the Kubus last Friday, by tomorrow, tuesday, latest, so they are all up on wednesday. To do that post a little blog which names the title of your project, members of your team and the pdf.

This will also help to discuss with other guest critics their participation in another critique.

ALSO find the written feedback on your concepts on the occupation site under the Kubus occupation : concepts

This week we will read two essays with a focus on the work of Bruno Latour, French sociologist associated with ANT (Actor Network Theory). ANT is a methodology used by scholars and researchers predominantly involved in what is called ’science and technology studies’ to understand the relations between human and non-human actors, and how knowledge (especially technological and scientific knowledge) is both produced and how ideas discovered through these relations. In the essay included here, Latour continues the debate concerning the problems surrounding the critical project or ‘criticality’. Then, the article by Fallan gives a brief introduction to ANT as well as Latour’s work, and addresses why this material might be of relevance to architecture.

1. Bruno Latour, Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?, in Critical Inquiry (Winter 2004).
Bruno Latour, Why has critique run out of steam

2. Kjetil Fallan, Architecture in Action: Traveling with Actor-Network Theory in the Land of Architectural Research, in Architecture Theory Review, 13:1 (2008).
Kjetil Fallan, Architecture in Action

Some new pieces by Harmen. Uncomplete basketball courts, I had to grin. http://www.harmendehoop.com/ , just have a closer look at the painting section…

we decided to do another action on Rosa-Luxemburg Platz in collaboration with Volksbuehne. We will occupy the Kubus on June 1, from 5-10pm, with movies and actions and lots of guests. more information soon. Put it down in your calendar! Everyone welcome

here the link to the facebook event page with more informations!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=83663269741

the kubus is up and will be running from may 20 until july 13, we can participate in the event through group or individual actions. Markus Nielsen and Ramona Reiser are the curatorial team and will visit us friday may 15 at 11.30!09-01-17-kubus-entwurf-kleine-variante-grundr09-01-17-kubus-entwurf-kleine-variante-seitenans09-01-17-kubus-entwurf-kleine-variante-ubersicht-3d