BRIEF: The 2015 AA Visiting School to Santiago will investigate the archaeology of technology contained within a series of Soviet astronomical equipment and buildings held in Chile’s National Astronomical Observatory. Produced early in the 1960s, the AA Visiting School will critically approach the GIPpy telescope and dome (Grand Passage Instrument) that was built by the renowned LOMO factory within the workshops of the Pulkovo Observatory in Saint Petersburg, but stopped to be used after the soviet astronomical mission’s departure from Chile following the 1973 military coup d’etat.
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This is not an interactive museum, it is a live one. Where every single piece of the collection is a living object with functions and specific mechanisms that still work. So this is a project that amplifies the “living” quality of the exhibition pieces, a museum that shows the value of everything working and invading the space with their movements and sounds. A living composition where each piece/sound is a fundamental element…
Workshop with graphic Designer Wayne Daly. photo: Ping Ping Lu
Architecture & Ecriture celebrates writing as a critical and creative practice. As the literary branch of the Architectural Association Visiting School, we welcome architects as well as writers, curators or artists interested in spatial theory and literature to join us in Paris from 30 June to 9 July 2017 for the production of exciting new written and performative pieces.
Modeled on the Literary Salon, Architecture & Ecriture draws largely, though not exclusively, from French cultural studies and literature. For this second edition we will read Montaigne and his essays, Barthes and his lectures, Butor and his multifaceted and nomadic writings, Cixous and her memoirs. We will enter the libraries of the world, real and imaginary, with the Virtual Exhibition ‘La Bibliothèque, la nuit’ at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Conceived by director Robert Lepage and his company Ex Machina, the exhibition is based on Alberto Manguel’s spellbinding book The Library at Night.
Architecture & Ecriture explores a space through translation, a Mobile space, which invites us to constant movement and repositioning. This year we will move from fact to fiction and back, from theory to poetry and back.
Deadline for applications: 15 June 2017.
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Participants will take part in a series of workshops, talks and seminars led by guest writers and thinkers from both inside and outside the AA School of Architecture. The Salon is a space of discussion and total immersion and Architecture & Ecriture operates as a research platform where participants are taught as well as invited to contribute new ideas to the current discussion about architectural writing and spatial theories.
The residency will culminate in a public event and exhibition open to a wider audience on July 8th 2017, where participants will be able to showcase their final work.
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Tour of the Palais de Tokyo. photo: Ping Ping Lu
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