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Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture Open Lecture Series

BorderScaping. An explorative study on the North Moroccan/Spanish border landscapes

Rooted in ‘border landscapes’ research and post-colonial studies, BorderScaping proposes an understanding of the productive interactions between ‘border thinking’ and ‘design thinking’ towards alternative forms of imagination for contemporary border landscapes, beyond existing geo-political and cultural polarizations.

The Moroccan / Spanish border is explored as one relevant observatory of the past and ongoing re-bordering dynamics across Europe’s borders in the Mediterranean and in North Africa.

By addressing a set of emerging “borderscapes’ constellations”, seen both as diachronical narratives and transcalar socio-spatial fields, the lecture intends to unfold the background knowledge for alternative images of change.

Alice Buoli is an Architect and PhD in Territorial Design and Government. Her most recent professional and academic activities lie at the intersection between urban research, design thinking and borderlands studies, with a peculiar interest on the Euro-Mediterranean context and on the Spanish-Moroccan border landscapes. She is currently Experienced Researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts, in the context of Adapt-r FP7 ITN Program.

http://borderscaping.tumblr.com/

At the Open Lecture Series internationally renowned architects, artists, theoreticians, critics and urbanists from all around the globe give talks to offer fresh perspectives on architecture, design, urban development and critical thought. The lectures are open to everyone interested in the future of our living environment.

www.avatudloengud.ee
The lectures are held in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

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This Friday, we kick off WILD TALKs, the new public lecture series of our department. The speakers of the series could be characterised by two main threads of action. Some of them have created as much havoc as an elk would, wandering into a city, just by ignoring general customs and habits. Others have unearthed things about life by closely studying the periphery. Summing this up, we believe that these speakers have the potential to spark inspiration in not only interior architecture students, but anyone with any relationship to space around them.
First on the WILD TALKs stage will be Berlin-based Dutch guerilla artist IEPE RUBINGH who dumped 500 litres of paint on Rosenthaler Platz, turning the intersection into a huge canvas and making Berliners guess for months whether this was a ‘Guerrilla Advertising Campaign’ or an artwork. Additionally, he is the inventor of the hybrid sport ‘Chess Boxing’ and is the director of the World Chess Boxing Organisation, with clubs in Siberia, London, Los Angeles and Berlin.
In addition to being the opening speaker for WILD TALKs, Rubingh will also run a workshop for the MA course Wild Studio at the interior architecture department.
WILD TALKs is supported by Astelpajunaps and Valmiermuiža. All talks will be in English.

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Insitute of Art History and Centre of Contemporary Art, Estonia
Open Lecture Series 2016

• 27. January

Joanna Figiel
(City University London)

• 17. February

Orit Gat
(Rhizome)

• 31. March

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
(Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna & Castello di Rivoli )

• 20. April

Dorothea von Hantelmann
(Berlin)

• 26. May

Jörg Heiser
(frieze d/e)

The lectures take place at the Academy of Sciences main hall at Kohtu 6, Tallinn
Start at 6 pm
Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia

Next week, this public discussion series will seek to present an understanding of architecture as an agent at the heart of civic debate establishing a sphere of visibility and publicity – explaining contemporary challenges of built environment and role of the architect in making structures public. The talks will be public and open to everybody; the event series will be in English.

In 1980s, the environmental protests both rejected the mass-industrialization of our local resources and galvanized the Estonian independence movement. Analyzing that historical precedent as a starting point, the focus of the discussion will shift to contemporary developments. The talks will inquire into range of issues enabling connections between politics, civic processes, technological developments and built infrastructures in order to establish an understanding of the complex phenomena as space for architectural interventions to deal with its consequences.

The focus on the Phosphorite Debate

With invited designers, planners, paleo-ecologist, environmental activists, geologists and representatives of the mining industry, the panel discussions will focus on society’s relationship with mining – how Estonia and the Baltic Region relate to its mineral resources and the industries involved. Our round table discussions will trace the ideas relating society to its material space and resources. Both extremes of this debate – the condition of mining and not-mining – consist of their inherent material and immaterial infrastructures, technologies and strategic argumentation where visionary thinking meets provisionary control of the environment, while creating complex material, bureaucratic, political, civic conditions to enable or disable the process.

As a result, we seek to render out an operative image or a diagram charting those two opposites, the conditions of mining and not mining with the aim to understand their interrelations as specific parameters for possible further formulations of architectural agendas and ideas on modes of intervention possible in the region.

The Phosphorite Debate is a part of the Baltic Pavilion conceptual framework – the project representing the Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the 2016 La Biennale di Venezia International Architecture Exhibition, and the talks programme is led by Johan Tali (Estonia), Jonas Žukauskas (Lithuania), Jurga Daubaraite (Lithuania), Petras Isora (Lithuania), Niklāvs Paegle (Latvia) and Dagnija Smilga (Latvia) from the Baltic Pavilion curatorial team.

The week-long series of talks is organized with support from The Estonian Academy of Arts Department of Architecture and Estonian Center of Architecture, funded by the Cultural Endowment Fund of Estonia.

The events are all in English and take place in the venue rooms of Estonian Centre of Architecture (Põhja pst 27a, Tallinn).

Time schedule and more info on Facebook.

For more info:

Johan Tali

johan.tali@gmail.com

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Estonian Academy of Arts Art History department and CCA, Estonia invite:
On Wednesday, February 17th at 6 PM prolific art writer and contributing editor of a variety of publications Orit Gat will give a public lecture ‘If it looks like zeitgeist, it might be anxiety’ at Estonian Academy of Sciences (Kohtu 6). Orit Gat will also be holding a seminar at the Institute of Art History on Friday, February 19th.
Lecture ‘If it looks like zeitgeist, it might be anxiety’
In a piece for the Guardian, Charlie Brooker, the creator of the popular Channel 4 television series about technology Black Mirror, defines the show’s setting as “the area between delight and discomfort.” Our relationship to technology is defined by a curious mix of fascination, reliance, fear, and admiration. What happens to art in this context? This talk explores the current place of art in connection to networked technology, looking into platforms for the presentation and dissemination of art online and the discourse they may or may not have created; the many recent exhibitions dedicated to art that deals with data, the internet, and technology; and what fuels these trends: the anxiety of being left behind.
Seminar ‘Being bad: on negative criticism’
Much art criticism is inherently polite. Reading a number of reviews including film, food, and art criticism, this workshop will include discussions of the role of negative critique and the position of the critic in relation to it. We’ll discuss how criticism is affected by the market and geography, and speculate on how art reviews are still useful, how they can be beneficial while still negative, and how the internet has changed the landscape of criticism. Seminar will take place at the Institute of Art History on February 19th, 10 AM, room 104. For participation please email karin.nugis@artun.ee Compulsory reading is at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rdza2ud2631xcjh/AACxy5Zre_-3aH2Wdol9qyFUa?dl=0
Orit Gat is a writer based in New York and London. Her writing on contemporary art, publishing, internet culture, and the different meeting points between these has been published in a variety of magazines, including frieze, ArtReview, Art Agenda, Flash Art, and The Art Newspaper. Gat is the features editor of Rhizome, managing editor of WdW Review, and contributing editor at The White Review and Momus. In 2015, she won the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the short-form writing category.
The public lecture will be preceded by a reading group of Orit Gat’s texts, to be taking place on Tuesday, February 9th at 4PM at the Centre for Contemporary Art Estonia. Texts for the reading group are below. Orit Gat will also be holding a
Orit Gat’s lecture in Tallinn is part of an open lecture series organized by Estonian Academy of Arts Art History department in collaboration with CCA, Estonia. In 2016 the guests are Joanna Figiel, Orit Gat, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Dorothea von Hantelmann and Jörg Heiser. Lecture series if supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and Estonian Ministry of Culture.
Readings for the February 9th reading group:
Orit Gat talk at SuperScript 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMwi8_dSaug
Orit Gat, “What is an Art Critic Doing at an Art Fair?,” MOMUS. http://momus.ca/what-is-an-art-critic-doing-at-an-art-fair/
Orit Gat, The Thumbnail, FlashArt. http://www.flashartonline.com/article/the-thumbnail/
Orit Gat, The Future, WdW Review. http://wdwreview.org/sediments/future/