A Sense of Crisis: Cristina D.Moreno & Efrén Gª Grinda, F. Roche
Montag, 22. Mai 2017 - 19:00 Uhr
Semper Depot - Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste
Lecture: Cristina D.Moreno & Efrén Gª Grinda | François Roche
Chair: Oliver Domeisen
Lecture Series Summerterm 2017
A Lecture Series curated by Kathrin Aste, Platform Geography Landscape Cities and supported by: Halotech | Pema | Ing. A. Sauritschnig Alu-Stahl-Glas GesmbH
Lecture Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén Garcia Grinda | MACARONIC
The lecture will verse about new language constructs in architecture and a visit to AMID.cero9 recent projects developed within the framework of our unprecedented global context, where every type of cultural material triggers a wild multiplicity of connections with other materials, things and situations, from people to machines to insignificant, abstract entities. So that the lecture will argue that the overall congruence, origin, connotations and meanings of these connections are no longer relevant to the way these materials are connected and what counts now is the universal instant access to this infinite ocean of information.
Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efren Gª Grinda are both architects and founders of amid.cero9. They are Diploma Unit Masters at the A.A. School, London (2009-), Directors of an Option Studio at the GSD, Harvard University (2015-), and Visiting Professors and Unit Directors at SAC Städelschule Architectural Class, Frankfurt (2016-).
Previously they taught at the IKA Institut für Kunst und Architektur Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
?s/he would rather do FICTION MAKer?
Flash back 1993-2050
Experimental architecture has shifted toward a new corpus of instrumentations, made out of tools, computation mechanization, but also and simultaneously out of fictions and lines of subjectivity, synchronous with our symptoms of fears and great escapes in the ?here and now?.
The purpose of this 1993-2050 flashback lecture is to explore, in the pursuit of the show ?s/he would rather do FICTION MAKer? from 2016, attitudes that manifest a correlation, a co- dependency with the forms they underpin through their conflicts and reciprocities.
It is to discover a post-digital, post-human, post-activist, post-democratic, post-feminist world, – a queer, androgynous, carnal, disturbing, disenchanted, pornographic, transient, transactional world, ... where scenarios, mechanisms, misunderstandings, psychological and physiological fragments are what make up walls and ceilings, cellars and attics, – schizoid and paranoid, between the lines of operative and critical fictions?
François Roche is currently teaching at the IKA "Institut für Kunst und Architektur" Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
François Roche founded the polymorphous architecture organization ?New-Territories? in 1993. Since then it has embraced different labels, names, strategies and purposes. ?New-Territories? is fronted by the androgynous avatar, trans-gender avatar, _S/he_, who authorized François Roche to write, talk and teach on his/her behalf, as a PS / personal secretary, an Ariadne?s wire of this ectoplasmic system and paranoiac mind. New-Territories seek to articulate the real and/or fictional geographic situations and narrative structures that can transform them, with technology, robotic and human natures, physiological and psychological.
François Roche´s work was exhibited among other places at Pompidou Center, SF Moma, Tate Modern, Barbican London, CCA Montreal and was selected 8 times at Venice Biennial, Chicago Biennial (2015), Istanbul Biennial (2016).
Among the teaching positions held by him-her P.S. F Roche, NewT has been guest professor, over the last decade, in London, Vienna, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Paris, in New-York from 2006 to 2013 at Columbia University, and this last four years at RMIT, Melbourne.