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Once Upon a Place - Haunted Houses & Imaginary Cities/1st International Conference on Architecture & Fiction
(Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, October 12 - 14, 2010)
REGISTRATION HAS OPENED
Curators:
Pedro Gadanho (CUC-FAUP)
Susana Oliveira (CIAUD/FAUTL)
12 and 13 October 2010 - Auditório 2, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
14 October 2010 - Faculdade de Arquitectura, UTL
12, 13 and 14 October 2010 (from 6 PM) - Museu da Electricidade
The international conference "Once Upon a Place" will examine the ways in which architecture and fiction mutually infect each other, whether the latter is understood in the sense of traditional literature or other literary and hybrid forms associated with visual and popular culture - illustrations, cartoons, graphic novels, photo stories, etc.
The event will be organised around three distinct parts: a series of sessions involving lectures of a scientific/academic nature; three panel discussions featuring international guests; and one informal/round-table debate with other guests and participants.
The conference is an associated project of Lisboa Triennial of Architecture 2010 and an IAWIS sponsored event.
Guest Keynote speakers:
Alberto Manguel (essayist/writer)
Ángela Ferreira (visual artist)
Colin Fournier (architect, Bartlett School)
François Schuiten & Benoît Peeters (comics' authors)
Gonçalo M. Tavares (writer)
Kazys Varnelis (Arch., Columbia Univ.)
Registration now open at:
http://www.onceuponaplace.fa.utl.pt
(Early-bird prices and students' reductions)
Word and Image in the Mystical Experience
IAWIS session at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies
(Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 13-16 May 2010)
This session aims at investigating how words and images function and interact within the mystical experience. Are the 'tools' used to achieve an encounter with the divine made more efficacious by the combination of words and images? How do words and images coalesce during a mystical encounter (and this, despite the ideal of an 'imageless' devotion)? What part do words and images play in recounting such experiences?
Contesting the City: Experiments in Transnational Public Art
IAWIS sponsored special session at 2010 College Art Association conference (Chicago, Feb. 11-13, 2010)
This session considers the city street as the site for artistic intervention, a contested space where identity is under constant renegotiation. Session participants will explore how artists reinvent accepted uses of the urban space, particularly the unfamiliar street, so as to make visible the condition of geographic displacement, transnational citizenship, or exile. What are the institutional practices that govern our behavior in the familiar versus the foreign city? How can visual and performing arts jar us out of these routines? How does visual art 'translate' public experience? What is the role of language in these practices? By analyzing the work of contemporary artists critically engaged in public space, particularly the foreign city, such as Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Shimon Attie, Doris Salcedo, and Robin Rhoade, we will determine to what extent language can work to draw attention to marginalized identity, reconstituting a new kind of citizenship in foreign public space.
Selected speakers and titles:
1. Steven L. Bridges (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): "Making the
Invisible Visible: Jens Haaning Tells a Few Colorful Jokes"
2. Jo Novelli (New York University): "Seven Walks: Francis Alys Reads London"
3. Richard Tipping (Artist): "Streetscape -- Sign Inerventions in Public Space"
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