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Slought Foundation and the Department of Architecture, PennDesign, are pleased to announce the Evasions of Power Conference. The conference will start on Friday, March 30, 2007 at 11:00am on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, in the Upper Gallery of Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street. This session will feature short introductory remarks about the Evasions of Power Conference by Detlef Mertins, Chair of the Department of Architecture, PennDesign; Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Architect at Herzog & deMeuron; Aaron Levy, Executive Director and Co-curator of Slought Foundation, and a lecturer in English at the University of Pennsylvania, and Katherine Carl, Curator at The Drawing Center, New York. The conference will follow immediately after from 11:30am-5:15pm.
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The “Evasions of Power” conference is a series of roundtable discussions exploring the relations between literature, architecture, and geo-politics. The photo-documentation on this webpage–of military forces from Montenegro transporting and installing a shrine on the Serbian border–exemplifies this intersection. The proceedings will take place in Philadelphia from March 30-31, 2007 and have been jointly organized by Slought Foundation and the Department of Architecture, PennDesign, in conjunction with the Centre for Architecture Research, Goldsmiths College, London, the
Department of Art History, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, and Eastern State Penitentiary historic site and museum, Philadelphia. Major support for Evasions of Power has been provided by the Graham
Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Departing from the usual academic convention of presenting knowledge in the form of straightforward talks or presentations, this project will include a series of roundtable discussions, debates and interventions of varying duration, with an integrated online presence. For more information about the “Evasions of Power” conference, please consult http://slought.org/series/Evasions/
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Detlef Mertins is Chair of the Department of Architecture, Penn School of Design, where he teaches architectural history and theory and supervises doctoral research. He has taught at the University of Toronto (1991-2003) and as a visiting professor at Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University and Rice University. He held the Canada Research Chair in Architecture (2001-2003), received the Konrad Adenauer Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Royal Canadian Society (2003), and received a Visiting Scholar Fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1998). His books include the English edition of Walter Curt Behrendt, The Victory of the New Building Style, The Presence of Mies, and Metropolitan Mutations: The Architecture of Emerging Public Spaces, as well as numerous essays in scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as critical writings on contemporary architecture. His most recent essays include "The Modernity of Zaha Hadid" in the exhibition catalogue Zaha Hadid (Guggenheim Museum), "Mies's Event Space" in Grey Room 20, "Bioconstructivism" in Lars Spuuybroek's NOX: Machining Architecture, "Same Difference" in Foreign Office Architects' Phylogenesis: FOA's Ark, and "Interview with Natalie de Blois" in SOM Journal 4. His research focuses on the history and theory of modernism in architecture, art, philosophy, and urbanism.
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss is a lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Penn School of Design, and research architect at Herzog de Meuron Architect in Basel. He was educated at Harvard University and the University of Belgrade. He has taught architecture design studios at Penn School of Design, Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute, and has held seminars in contemporary architecture and geopolitics. His recent book “Almost Architecture," published by The Akademie Solitude (Stuttgart) addresses the role of architecture and post-socialist urban condition in Serbia under the Milosevic regime. He has realized a number of design projects in New York City, among them Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, Thread Waxing Space, and Participant Inc. contemporary art galleries, as well as architecture for the Gina Gibney contemporary dance group performing in New York’s St.Marks Church. His current project includes Kuda.org Stadium - center for recreation and new media in Novi Sad. His work was presented at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, Dokumenta of Architecture Denmark Copenhagen, Columbia School of Architecture, Whitney Museum, Mutations, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Urban Drift, TN Probe Tokyo, The Stroom, Manifesta 4, 2nd Tirana Biennial, Transformers Gallery, Werkleitz Biennial, Van Alen Institute, Talking Cities, Akademie Solitude Stuttgart, and Open Source Architecture Graz. He is currently working on his PhD at Goldsmiths Center for Architectural Research, London.
Aaron Levy is the founding Executive Director and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation. He is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania on contemporary literature and literary theory, and is writing his doctoral dissertation on contemporary curatorial practice for the School of History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. He has organized around 200 exhibitions and events on contemporary art and theory and has edited publications on curatorial and archival practice, conceptual art, human rights, poetics, and Modernism. Among these, he recently edited Helene Cixous' Ex-Cities, with Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory, Vol. 1 (2006). Tooth and Nail: Film and Video 1970-1974 by Dennis Oppenheim is forthcoming (2007). Cities Without Citizens (2004), which he co-edited with Eduardo Cadava for the Rosenbach Museum, directly relates to and informs the Evasions of Power conference proceedings.
Katherine Carl is writing her doctoral dissertation on conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s of the former Yugoslavia in the department of Art History and Criticism at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She holds a BA in Art History from Oberlin College. Currently Curator of Contemporary Art at The Drawing Center and a founder of School of Missing Studies, she worked previously at Dia Art Foundation (1999-2003), taught at New York University (2002-3), managed the ArtsLink international exchange program (1996-1997), was a museum specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts (1991-1995), and was a founder and editor of Link Critical Journal on the Arts (1994-1997) and managing editor of Art Criticism (1998-2001). Her recent independent curatorial projects include: Flipside, ArtsLink at Artists Space (2004), an exhibition and publication on contemporary art from Eastern Europe and the US; go_HOME residency and online project (New York, 2001) with artists Danica Dakic and Sandra Sterle; and the Tandem Project (Washington, DC, 2000) residency and exhibition with artists from ex-Yugoslavia. Her writing has been published in journals and exhibition catalogues internationally.
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of Centre for Architecture Research, Goldsmiths College, London, the Department of Art History, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, and Eastern State Penitentiary historic site and museum, Philadelphia. Major support for Evasions of Power has been provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Media sponsorship provided by Archinect.
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