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Our Partnership with Penn

Slought benefits from our placement on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania and close proximity to its expansive academic communities. We opened our doors with visionary support from the School of Arts and Sciences, Facilities and Real Estate Services, and various departments. Today we continue to enjoy creative and sustaining support for our programs from numerous schools and departments across the University. We have developed a unique partnership that crosses disciplines and public programs and bridges the classroom and the community.

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Working in partnership with others, both locally and globally, is core to our work at Slought.

This desire to engage others in collaboration continually fosters new relationships and programs, extending the dialogue to a wider public. Our partners align with our values and help us address where change can be enacted.

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Knut Asdam: Edgelands
An installation with Knut Asdam exploring architecture and cinema at the conjunction of the personal, the paranoiac, and the public

Penn Course:
Installations, Projections, Divagations
Prof. Kaja Silverman, 2013

Agnès Varda: Marker Forever
A conversation with Agnès Varda about cinécriture and film as a political and feminist statement

Penn Symposium:
Chris Marker: Things That Quicken the Heart
Cinema Studies Program, 2013

Judith Barry: ...Cairo stories
A project by Judith Barry exploring the many different ways women negotiate ideological, cultural and economic conditions in Cairo

Penn Lecture:
Not reconciled...
Department of Fine Arts and ICA, 2014

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Abortion on the high seas
A conversation about abortion rights, international law and filmmaking, with partner organization Planned Parenthood

Other Slought partners in conversation about advocacy & social justice:
Women on Waves
Fake Design

War - Media - Art: The Image in Question
A conversation with Harun Farocki on the representation of war and weaponry, with partner organization Temple University

Other Slought partners in conversation about aesthetics & media:
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie
Temple University Film and Media Arts


John Cage | How to Get Started
An interactive installation of a rarely heard performance by John Cage, with partner organization John Cage Trust

Other Slought partners in conversation about artistic legacies:
John Cage Trust
Dennis Oppenheim Estate

Mixplace Studio
An educational model linking the knowledge of communities and institutions, with partner organization People's Emergency Center

Other Slought partners in conversation about community development:
People's Emergency Center (PECCDC)
Village of Arts and Humanities

Architecture on Display
A research initiative exploring the relationship between architecture and display, with partner organization the Architectural Association

Other Slought partners in conversation about curatorial practice:
New Museum for Contemporary Art
Graham Foundation

Into the Open
An exhibition at the Venice Biennale about architects who invigorate community activism, with partner organization US State Department

Other Slought partners in conversation about design:
Architectural Association
Project Projects

Righteous Dopefiend
A photo-ethnographic collaboration about homelessness, addiction, and poverty, with partner organization the Penn Museum

Other Slought partners in conversation about health and sustainability:
The Edible Schoolyard Project
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Cities Without Citizens
An exhibition exploring the limits and conditions of citizenship, with partner organization the Rosenbach Museum & Library

Other Slought partners in conversation about memory:
Rosenbach Museum and Library
Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Unpacking Derrida's Library
A film publication commemorating French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida, with partner organization Princeton University

Other Slought partners in conversation about pedagogy:
Princeton University (PIIRS)
Center for Urban Pedagogy

Utterly Precarious
A project with Carolee Schneemann about precarity in art and life, with partner organization The College of Physicians

Other Slought partners in conversation about performance:
Symphony Space
Performa

How to Live Together?
An artist project revisiting Roland Barthes' seminal lectures on coexistence, with partner organization University of Pennsylvania

Other Slought partners in conversation about philosophy & theory:
Syracuse University Humanities Center
Princeton University Wilson College

Perpetual Peace Project
A curatorial intervention exploring 21st century prospects for international peace, with partner organization International Peace Institute

Other Slought partners in conversation about politics and economics:
International Peace Institute
EU National Institutes of Culture

The Days of the Commune
Activists and artists re-perform Brecht's Days of the Commune, with partner organization Annenberg School for Communication

Other Slought partners in conversation about public culture:
UCSD Center for Urban Ecologies
Scribe Video Center