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SUMMARY:Choreo-spatial politics
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DESCRIPTION:Karen Kurczynski is a critic and historian of contemporary vis
 ual art and currently an Associate Professor of Art History at University 
 of Massachusetts Amherst with particular interests in the relationship of 
 art to politics and activism\, feminist and critical theory. // Beth Weins
 tein is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Univer
 sity of Arizona whose research and practice move between the architectural
  and the performative and across scales from drawing to performance-instal
 lations to urban interventions.\nChoreo-spatial politics is the fifth sem
 inar of the ALICE series Surrounded by a fog of virtual images. Organized
  in 2020-2021 by ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) at the ENA
 C / EPFL this online series seeks to explore and operationalize architectu
 ral research questions through a series of talks with international guest 
 speakers led by its grad and post-grad researchers around key topics of th
 eir work.\n\n--\n\nThe performance theorist André Lepecki distinguishes t
 wo ways in which movement can be activated aesthetically and politically:
  kinetic activation\, which is the one promoted by industrialization\, c
 apitalization and militarization\, and intensive activation -- which oth
 er authors will describe as kinaesthetic -- privileging micro-assemblies
  and including all kinds of physical\, artistic or political practices tha
 t dissociate mobility from the imperative of displacement. In this second 
 category\, it is not about individualities that move each one for itself: 
 movement is an already there\, operating between bodies and through them\
 , that these practices possibly make felt and intensify.\n\nArchitectural 
 practice and research have not escaped the growing predominance of the fig
 ure of movement\, which they have approached in many ways throughout the 2
 0th century. But attempts to consider this mobile reality\, to address the
  kinetic and rhythmic nature of our living environments and their formatio
 n have frequently been limited to a reading\, tracing and designing of its
  flows. Not only does this approach run the risk of reducing all movement 
 to consensual mobility\, but it also ignores a whole aspect\, that of int
 ensive movement\, which\, by proposing a specific alternative to the coupl
 e subject/freedom of movement as pre-established entities\, makes it possi
 ble to approach the notions of movement and ‘freedom’ in a radically d
 ifferent way. \n\nThe 'choreo-spatial' work of the architect suggested he
 re involves experimentation and engagement with this much more precarious 
 type of movement\, with the exercise of movement as freedom: a movement th
 at is learned\, repeated\, experimented with\, practiced\, transformed thr
 ough a certain design practice or intervention\, inviting to actively pay 
 attention to more complicities and mutual interferences. In this process\,
  the techniques and instruments of architecture themselves\, notably drawi
 ng\, allow for the setting up of a 'soft choreography' supporting the unfo
 lding of the political through choreo-spatial experimentation.\n\n---\n\nI
 n this last SBAFOVI session\, Aurélie Dupuis from ALICE will welcome 
 our guest speakers\, Karen Kurczynski\, critic and historian of contempo
 rary visual art and Associate Professor of Art History at University of Ma
 ssachusetts Amherst\, and Beth Weinstein\, architect and Associate Profes
 sor of Architecture at the University of Arizona. Their accounts from the 
 fields of contemporary art drawing and performance\, respectively\, will o
 utline specific mediation processes included in a both sensual and politic
 al practice that addresses urgent questions without sweeping away the 'not
  yet' that remains to be explored.\n\nTo join the lectures and conversatio
 n: Zoom
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/85159208154?pwd=MGFxTGp0TDhYeXdDeTVYRFZvWD
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