"...the idea of evelavtion as architectural drawing and also the sense of a list, like the spec list, passed through in quite a linear way. Maybe there's something in trying to shift this linearity through our words, alter the way the building is defined/encountered..."

"...The multiple spaces we inhabit from moment to moment- we could divert off course and include external interruptions, passing thoughts. references to the space of and the doing of the presentation not just the contents of it."...

yes- perhaps we could use the time of the lift to somehow think about the time of each of the materials and how they change... so if concrete starts to crumble and metal rust and timber bend... each within a different frame... and poeple move in and out of the lift at certain times... then people scratch things into the wall... so almost to mark each Year group passing through the school of architecture... or one of us could introduce these things and then the other counterpoint it...

or one could do about the people that use the building or comission the building... (and them being there and also elsewhere- so thinking of other places) and the other about the physicality of the building? (and perhaps the absence of the hands that built it or the forest where the wood came from)... and then the time of our presentation...

i quite like the fact we haven't been there before and so think that perhaps we can make this building up from our ideas of it rather than being acurate...?

i'm not entirely sure how we bring these things... but perhaps it is a mixture of things such as thinking about sounds, texture... carolyn licked the barcelona pavilion and realised, although it was imperceptible to sight she could slightly taste the rust of the building deteriorating... i'm not suggesting we do that... but...

there was also this nice detail someone drew where the drew the theshold of the lift with a stiletto heel caught it in to talk about the possibility of an erotic encounter... again, not to take this straight, but was thinking it could be a bit embarassing talking in a lift if most of the users have no idea why we are there... so could actually think about that moment of encounter... so when the lift beeps to signal the fllor and there is that second before the door opens... and incorporate that too...

http://www.preromanbritain.com/alex/notes05/large-2.html

http://performa-arts.org/blog/alexander-singh/

sorry the links didnt come up before

present/read/think/travel etc

Thinking about using disparate but related presentations/texts/images in the seperate lifts reminded me of performance lectures by Alexandre Singh, he speaks in a really eloquent but irreverent way and links whole seta of seemingly random images or sometimes uses images as a background to counter/add to what hes saying. I also like these notebook pages, maybe theres something in the idea of notes as opposed to conclusive, linear texts; the way we tend to ramble (!) and the way notes are compiled into a coherent form but nthe lift will deny a coherent presentation.

Maybe we could have flip charts?!



There's also the idea of the internal/external voice working simultaneoiusly. I'll show you the text I write where I attempted to speak of the space of reading and that of writing with that of an unidentifiable traveller. The multiple spaces we inhabit from moment to moment- we could divert off course and include external interruptions, passing thoughts. references to the space of and the doing of the presentation not just the contents of it.

I saw a group reading of B.S Johnson's House Mother Normal at the Whitechapel, the characters thoughts began to overlap and were s=read siomultaneously, sometimes making sense in order and at others being quite incomprehensible. Maybe what we say is related but diverges.

Elevation

I really like toe sound of that book you're talking about, would be geat to have a read. With this idea of lifts, and being inbetween spaces but somewhere that crosses through all the spaces, maybe theres a link here to the idea of evelavtion as architectural drawing and also the sense of a list, like the spec list, passed through in quite a linear way. Maybe there's something in trying to shift this linearity through our words, alter the way the building is defined/encountered. Sorry these are just thoughts. I think we should speak in a way that references our work but doesnt address it directly, perhaps it focuses more on the way our practices intersect at many points, the notion of crossed diciplines, the way we use spaces, forms, communities, texts in ways that dont define a beginning and an end, reflected by using the lift to shift the way the building is understood. maybe we can research a bit what goes on on each floor and how it is navigated? But its about wider thibgs than just that building. Im rambling now!

proposal deadlines etc

There are two parameters:
* a time: the proposal must outline how the work will take place within a specific time-frame: 10am to 5pm on 3 December 2009.
* a space: the proposal must outline how the work will take place within the institutional space of the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL which includes an educational site (a lecture theatre with a flat floor, no fixed seating and one-way basic projection, potentially two screen), and a foyer exhibition space which also operates as a passage from the front door of
the Bartlett School of Architecture past lifts and doors to various lecture theatres, studios, with some window space and glass façade to the street.
There are two conditions:
* Those proposing works are responsible for obtaining the funding for making, exhibiting and transporting themselves and their work to the venue.
* The exact presentation of the work will be decided in negotiation with the conference team, who will make the final decision in the last instance.
Submission requirements: By 5th March 2010 please send a 300 word proposal and up to 3 images to a.araujo@ucl.ac.uk for blind review, in 2 documents: a proposal + image document (word/PDF), plus a name/affiliation/30 word bio document (word/PDF).

Katie Lloyd Thomas: Material Matters

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/0415363268/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-page


Katie Lloyd Thomas gave this fantatsic lecture a few years ago... she talked about architectural drawings unifying the building as if it is the product of a single hand... prioritising form over the materials/ matter... and that this has the effect of missing all the processes, hands, and the potentials/ qualities of the materials... so for example the person that builds something will alter from the drawings or the material might bend or shrink...

and she goes on to suggest that rather than emphaissing draiwngs we could consider the potential of the architectural specification... (this is the list that is produced for the contract that specifies thinsg such as the mix of the concrete, or the strength of the wood, or the density of the plasterboard)... this is because it is almost like a recipie and is all about the potentials, and fluidity and chage over time... and shows all the layers that affect what is produced or how it will change over time... she also talked about the physical 'matter' of text, of a book, of the convetions we use to write/ communicate... i will try to get the book out and have a read if you think it could have potential as a basis...?

i wonder if we could respond to this in some way>?

The outside of the bartlett

The lift at the Bartlett

I like the idea of us each in a lift speaking sepeartely but linking- perhaps you ciould speak about my work and vice versa... or we could say the same things out of sync... or one even we could have a photo essay or something and hold up pictures one after another (not quite bob dylan style...!)... all this is just speculation...

or we could aleter the lift in some way... or have music...

...or what we say could depend on who comes into the lift (the number of poeple or the floor they get on/ off at?)...

Taking Place and Altering It

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t778042954

ANTI 2010

http://antifestival.com/anti-2010/


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MzTEK

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Sexuate subjects: conference outline

Forthcoming:

SEXUATE SUBJECTS: POLITICS, POETICS AND ETHICS
UCL, London
Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th December 2010

This international interdisciplinary event will examine how political, poetic and ethical practice and thought engage with questions of sexuality and sexual difference on a global stage. At a time when women’s and minority group rights are still frequently under-represented and marginalised in mainstream global discussions of citizenship and democracy, culture, health and community life, Sexuate Subjects responds to French thinker, Luce Irigaray’s theory of ‘sexuate difference’ for enabling critically-aware global formations of self-identity and community, art, architectural and spatial practices, ecology, environmental care and sustainability, health and bio-medically assisted life.

In particular, Sexuate Subjects will focus on these different relationships as they are expressed in political, poetic and ethical practice and thought in disciplines including: architecture, art, literature, modern languages, philosophy, the political and social sciences. By examining these complex expressions of our physical and psychic lives through artefact, body, dialogue, image, installation and word, this event will provide a platform of diverse approaches which can help us build sexuate futures. Such approaches will contribute towards developing more nuanced understandings of the diversity of global cultures and their academic and public intersections. International experts from higher education, professional and public realms, as well as young researchers and practitioners, are invited to respond.

Key questions being discussed include:

Where are ‘global’ women in contemporary approaches to health matters?
How are political, poetic and ethical issues addressed in feminist/feminine architectural and spatial practice?
How can sexuate ecologies and environmental practices inform global sustainability?
How can art inform conflict resolution?
Why poetry matters in thought, ethical and political life.
How can sexuate difference inform the ethics of global education?
How can feminist bio-ethics inform approaches to women’s and body-rights, fertility and population health?

http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/conferences/conferences.htm

whirlwinds

It is already getting around – at what rate? in what contexts? in spite of what resistances? – that women diffuse themselves according to modalities scarcely compatible with the framework of the ruling symbolics. Which doesn’t happen without causing some turbulence, we might even say whirlwinds, that ought to be reconfined within solid walls of principle, to keep them from spreading to infinity. Otherwise they might even go so far as to disturb that third agency designated as the real – a transgression and confusion of boundaries that it is important to restore to their proper order.

Luce Irigaray, ‘The “Mechanics” of Fluids’, This Sex Which Is Not One (Ithaca, New York:
Cornell University Press, [1977], 1985), 106.

http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/conferences/sexuatesubjects.pdf