Ife Salema Vanable gives Under Construction Lecture entitled “Nothing Even Matters” at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Nothing Even Matters tells a tale at the critical intersection of historical analysis and theoretical speculation as a way to interrogate how modes of architectural production are operative parts of the same project that has historically, and continues to mutate, to produce varying ideas about racial difference. These alignments are not merely material, they constitute a discursive system, an aesthetic and sociotechnical mode of operation that orders the world in particular ways. Simultaneously anonymous and outstanding, this talk engages Mitchell-Lama housing—a strategically crafty and impactful experiment in a long line of housing schemes hatched in New York, enacted in 1955, targeting middle-income black families. Recognized as an alternative program, complicating post-war histories of housing, Nothing Even Matters shares Ife Salema Vanable’s ongoing study of Mitchell-Lama housing, charting its hybridity, the simultaneous ambiguity and specificity with which the terms of its production have been managed (“middle-income,” “family,” “household), the ways that its objects (high-rise residential towers) aesthetically deviate from and challenge expectations for how black bodies are to be physically and materially housed, and the varied sanctioned, unauthorized, ingenious, pleasurable, sensuous, and particularly quotidian forms of occupancy black bodies have waged behind and beyond their facades.
Media: https://arch.umd.edu/events/under-construction-lecture-ife-salema-vanable
The Zip Code Memory Project seeks local participants for collaborative art-based project
The Zip Code Memory Project is seeking to bring together collaborative groups representing the diversity of our Washington Heights, East Harlem, Central/West Harlem, and South Bronx communities.
The Zip Code Memory Project seeks participants!
Do you live and/or work in Washington Heights, East Harlem, Central/West Harlem, or the South Bronx?
Want to participate in a creative project to explore the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on you and your community?
Let’s mourn our losses, envision new futures, and re-imagine our neighborhoods through paths of hope.
Join us as we:
Walk through our streets together to remember our loved ones as we tell stories about them.
Use and take photos to create stories, memorial stamps, postcards, and scrapbooks to share with others.
Engage in acting exercises to help us build trust and community.
This collaborative art-based project is envisioned to help us heal from the devastation of the Covid-19 pandemic, and its unequal effects on our communities. Through workshops and public events we will acknowledge the trauma, grief, and loss of the pandemic while celebrating and, we hope, energizing the spaces we live in.
We are seeking to bring together collaborative groups representing the diversity of our community with regard to age, race/ethnicity, citizenship status, physical ability, educational level, language, and types of
work.
The Zip Code Memory Project is sponsored by Columbia University and the Henry Luce Foundation in collaboration with a number of local community, education, and arts organizations.* There is no cost to participants. All will receive a signed certificate from the Zip Code Memory Project and its affiliated institutions upon completion.
Open to Community Members who:
Live and/or work in Washington Heights; East Harlem, Central/West Harlem, or the South Bronx:
Are at least 18yrs old or older to participate
Are willing and able to participate in four weekends of afternoon workshops over a 9-month period Oct-June, 2021-2022
Interested in participating?
Email us: zipcodememoryproject@gmail.com
MORE INFORMATION HERE.
Naomi Stead in conversation with artist Sarah Rodigari, “Walking, Talking, and Accountability”
Walking, Talking and Accountability’ Sarah Rodigari, artist, in conversation with Dr Naomi Stead, architecture critic and Professor of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Monash University Sydney-based artist Sarah Rodigari and architecture critic, Professor Naomi Stead (Monash Department of Architecture) engage in a speculative conversation about performative walking, the art of conversation and queering as a process and a practice. An artist who creates site-specific performances and text-based installations, Sarah’s performance installation 'On Time', 2021, was included in 'The National 2021' at Carriageworks in Sydney. Sarah also speaks about a recent residency with Monash Business School.
Organizers: Monash University of Art, Design, and Architecture
Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwUvUbVVlUI&ab_channel=MonashUniversityArt%2CDesign%26Architecture