Contesting Space II : Elke Krasny
Within the lecture series Contesting Space / Architecture as a Social Practice II, on Tuesday, January 7, 2014, at 6:00 PM, in auditorium A310 at the FA VUT in Brno, Vienna curator Elke Krasny will give a lecture titled On urban curating.
Today's urban life is characterized by the effort to “be public and contemporary.” Activism and needs are inseparably intertwined. What does not become public seems to not exist. What is not manifested publicly can hardly claim any effect. Those who do not assert their rights in public cease to participate in contemporary production. Public space – and public time – have become new urban boundaries. Urban curators are themselves an integral part of the ambiguities, conflicts, and contradictions that shape current processes of urbanization. These are marked by neoliberalism, exacerbated gentrification, prevailing crises, austerity measures, and inequality. They are also characterized by bottom-up strategies, diasporic ties, migrating knowledge, the rights of urban movements, self-organization, and striving for social and spatial justice.
In this lecture, I will present an outline of both the real and imaginary historiography of urban curating and share examples from my research-based curatorial work in Vienna, Hong Kong, and Vancouver.
Elke Krasny teaches and is an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2013, she was a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg in the Master’s program for Architecture and Urban Studies. In 2012, she was a visiting instructor at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. In 2006, she was a visiting professor at the University of Bremen, Germany.
In 2011, she was the resident curator in Hong Kong as part of the Hong Kong Community Museum Project, and in 2012 she was a resident artist at the Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
She is the editor and author of several books on architecture and urbanism and feminist historiography. Her texts have been widely published in edited volume books, exhibition catalogues, and periodicals. Exhibitions under her curatorial patronage include The Force is in the Mind. The Making of Architecture at the Vienna Center for Architecture (Architekturzentrum Wien), Penser tout Haut. Faire l’Architecture at the Centre de Design de l’UQAM in Montreal and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, as well as exhibitions Hong Kong City Telling and Mapping the Everyday: Neighborhood Claims for the Future at the Audain Gallery in Vancouver.
In 2012, her exhibition Hands-on Urbanism 1850-2012. The Right to Green was presented at the Vienna Center for Architecture and subsequently, at the invitation of David Chipperfield, in the Central Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012.
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Today's urban life is characterized by the effort to “be public and contemporary.” Activism and needs are inseparably intertwined. What does not become public seems to not exist. What is not manifested publicly can hardly claim any effect. Those who do not assert their rights in public cease to participate in contemporary production. Public space – and public time – have become new urban boundaries. Urban curators are themselves an integral part of the ambiguities, conflicts, and contradictions that shape current processes of urbanization. These are marked by neoliberalism, exacerbated gentrification, prevailing crises, austerity measures, and inequality. They are also characterized by bottom-up strategies, diasporic ties, migrating knowledge, the rights of urban movements, self-organization, and striving for social and spatial justice.
In this lecture, I will present an outline of both the real and imaginary historiography of urban curating and share examples from my research-based curatorial work in Vienna, Hong Kong, and Vancouver.
Elke Krasny teaches and is an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2013, she was a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg in the Master’s program for Architecture and Urban Studies. In 2012, she was a visiting instructor at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. In 2006, she was a visiting professor at the University of Bremen, Germany.
In 2011, she was the resident curator in Hong Kong as part of the Hong Kong Community Museum Project, and in 2012 she was a resident artist at the Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
She is the editor and author of several books on architecture and urbanism and feminist historiography. Her texts have been widely published in edited volume books, exhibition catalogues, and periodicals. Exhibitions under her curatorial patronage include The Force is in the Mind. The Making of Architecture at the Vienna Center for Architecture (Architekturzentrum Wien), Penser tout Haut. Faire l’Architecture at the Centre de Design de l’UQAM in Montreal and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, as well as exhibitions Hong Kong City Telling and Mapping the Everyday: Neighborhood Claims for the Future at the Audain Gallery in Vancouver.
In 2012, her exhibition Hands-on Urbanism 1850-2012. The Right to Green was presented at the Vienna Center for Architecture and subsequently, at the invitation of David Chipperfield, in the Central Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012.
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