Decolonizing Architecture
Tate Modern and the Delfina Foundation
May 24 2010 - May 27 2010
The Delfina Foundation (London, United Kingdom) and decolonizing.ps (Bethlehem, Palestine) are pleased to present the Decolonizing Architecture programme of residencies and events, in collaboration with Tate Modern.
Edifices built and used under colonial rule carry the ideologies and power relations, which informed their construction and use. In Bethlehem, Algiers, Johannesburg or Berlin, de-colonizing the architecture of a liberated landscape is necessary to re-envision collective identities based on new geo-political terms. This process encourages both, imaginative and practical planning about the areas that already have or will be released from direct colonial control, opens up an 'arena of speculation' about the future of these sites and the people who inhabit them.
How can the architecture of domination be reused, recycled or re-inhabited by those it dominated? What are the processes involved in planning and implementing the decolonisation of a site? How can one inhabit the house of one’s enemy? This residency programme and series of events will explore some of the ideas that inform the work of Decolonizing Architecture and review case studies spanning the visual arts, architecture and film.
International residency at decolonizing.ps’ studio in Bethlehem.
Part of an annual residency programme for UK-based practitioners and researchers, whose work involves critical spatial practice and who wish to carry out independent research and/or urban/territorial interventions. The first residency took place in February/March of 2010 with researcher Lorenzo Pezzani. An open call for applications will be launched in May 2010 for the residency of an artist and an architect in July and August 2011.
Film screening: Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains.
Mon 24 May 2010, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, 18:30
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
Film introduced by curator and writer Rasha Salti, followed by a Q&A with Elia Suleiman, Eyal Weizman, Sandi Hilal of decolonizing.ps. Moderated by Stuart Comer (Curator, Tate Modern).
Decolonizing Architecture: A panel discussion
Tue 25 May 2010, Tate Modern Starr Auditorium, 18:30 – 21:00
£12 (£10 concessions), booking recommended
With Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman of decolonizing.ps, Rasha Salti, Lorenzo Pezzani and Abdoumaliq Simone (Goldsmiths University).
Elastic Spaces: A round table discussion
Thu 27 May 2010, The Delfina Foundation, 18:30 – 20:00
Free event, rsvp required: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Lorenzo Pezzani explores the outcomes of his residency at decolonizing.ps and invites practitioners, researchers and the general audience to explore critical understandings of space.
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