Exhibition
SPACE AS MATRIX / EVENTS
Organizer: gta Exhibitions
Date: Wednesday, 28 September 2022 to Friday, 9 December 2022
Location: ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg
In the framework of the exhibition Space as Matrix, a programme of events will run during two weeks, from November 28th to December 8th.
29.11., 5–7 pm
The Alternative School of Economics & muf architecture/art
Workshop
01.12., 6 pm
Morgan Quaintance et al.
Screening
06.12., 10 am, noon, 2 pm, 4 pm
Maria Fusco & Women Writing Architecture
Readings
08.12., 6 pm
Jos Boys (Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative) & Sol Pérez Martinez
Talk
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29.11., 5–7 pm
The Alternative School of Economics & muf architecture /art
Workshop
The number of participants for this event is limited. To register send an email to ausstellungen@arch.ethz.ch
Feminist Economies in Architecture
Led by The Alternative School of Economics in collaboration with muf architecture/art, this workshop will explore what a feminist approach to making architecture might look like from the perspective of resources and relationships. Drawing on the idea of ‘Radmin’ (Radical Admin – pioneered by artist and feral economist Kate Rich), participants will collectively define the elements of a feminist budget, such as resources, organising, hierarchy and time.
The Alternative School of Economics is a collaboration between artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck, initiated in 2012. As an ‘alternative school’, they use both creative processes and self-education to study economics and economies. Using reciprocal modes of learning and making, they work with communities to investigate political, social and cultural issues, from finance to identity, to alternative and feminist economies. They use diverse and creative methodologies, and collaborate with experts from a variety of fields, experience and disciplines from sociologists, writers, and economists to union activists, parents and poets, to produce film, graphics, photography, texts and clothing, as forms of activation, dissemination and reflection.
Current & recent projects include Artists’ Economies, a poster artwork around Oslo for 100 Years of Conviviality, UKS, Oslo, The End of the Present, digital publication and residency with Arts Catalyst, London & Sheffield, Rabbits Road Institute Library, a community collection and creative programme, and The Neoliberal Imagination with Decentralising Political Economies, The Whitworth, Manchester / Liverpool John Moores University / The Association of Arte Útil.
Muf architecture/art is one of the practices exhibited in Space as Matrix. In their own words, muf architecture / art describe their practice as “making space for more than one (fragile) thing at a time”. muf work mainly in the public realm, in close participation with future users of their built structures. They often approach their work by emphasizing what is already there, connecting previously divided areas or shifting the focus from what the brief says to what the space and its occupants require. Throughout their processes, the question as to the value of knowledge production – what knowledge they are producing, for whom and at what cost – is present. Based in London, muf began practising in 1995. As their name states, muf positions their practice between art and architecture, frequently operating to subvert the conditions of the architectural services market and propose an alternative economy. muf have sometimes advised their clients not to build, which potentially loses them work, or pushed a commission much further than a client had anticipated.
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01.12., 6 pm
Morgan Quaintance et al.
Screening
Screening with works selected by Morgan Quaintance, whose piece Another Decade (2018) is on view in the exhibition Space as Matrix. Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work focusses on social histories and their reverberations in the present, often confronting the past in filmic montages combining archival material and new footage. The screening programme compiled by Quaintance will include Rollostraat 18 (2021) from his ongoing series Miniatures – shorts all under four minutes long that depart from Quaintance’s usual essayistic work to visualize a concept or an idea, a note, more intuitive in method and quick in production.
Morgan Quaintance has exhibited at festivals and institutions including MOMA, New York; Konsthall C, Sweden; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami. IN 2017, he wrote The New Conservatism: Complicity and the UK Art World’s Performance of Progression. He is the recipient of the 2022 ARTE Award at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg; in 2021, the Best Documentary Short Film Award at Tacoma Film Festival, USA; the UK Short Film Award at Open City Documentary Film Festival, London, amongst others.
After the programme by Quaintance, there will be a screening of the documentary The Heretics (2009) by Joan Braderman on the collective of artists, writers and architects including Lucy Lippard, Miriam Schapiro, Su Friedrich, Joan Snyder and Susana Torre – whose work is exhibited in Space as Matrix – that ran the journal Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977-92).
Drinks will be served before and after the screening.
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06.12., 10 am, noon, 2 pm, 4 pm
Maria Fusco & Women Writing Architecture
Readings
The number of participants for this event is limited. To register send an email stating your desired time-slot to ausstellungen@arch.ethz.ch
In four time slots throughout the day, Maria Fusco will hold live, remote readings for a small audience. Taking place within the exhibition Space as Matrix, Fusco’s voice will occupy the space temporarily, performing an intimacy, an immediacy that is a vital part of her writing practice. The protagonists of this performance are the speaking as well as the listening body. Fusco will read four “legends” from Legend of the Necessary Dreamer (2017, Vanguard Editions London), adding more pockets of real and fictional time to the already layered structure of the book.
'A modest epic written in real-time, Maria Fusco’s Legend of the Necessary Dreamer records some weeks in June 2013 when her narrator went every day to Lisbon’s Palácio Pombal in order to write about it. But 'it', of course, isn’t only the building, but the wraparound sensual act of perceiving. As she writes, I am trying to turn myself into a recording device…. Fusco’s book examines what it means not just to look, but to think, feel and remember. Legend expands the bounds of discursion. It’s a new classic of female philosophical fiction.'
Chris Kraus
The event is co-hosted with Women Writing Architecture who will extend the event’s reading on www.womenwritingarchitecture.org in various formats, including their new Glossator: a mechanism for collating, interpreting and annotating constellations of matter, written and spoken.
Professor Maria Fusco is an interdisciplinary writer working across criticism, fiction and performance, she holds a Personal Chair at the University of Dundee and is Visiting Professor at Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Frankfurt. She is the author of eight books, including Legend of the Necessary Dreamer, has collaborated with artists such as Ursula Mayer, whose work Cinesexual is on view in Space as Matrix, and is the editor of the series The Happy Hypocrite, available in the gta exhibitions bookshop Madam ETH, which ran until 2021 and included issues such as Linguistic Hardcore, A Rather Large Weapon and Fresh Hell, with contributions by Cosey Fanni Tutti, CAConrad, P. Staff, McKenzie Wark and Charlotte Prodger, amongst many more.
At the heart of Women Writing Architecture is an ever-growing annotated bibliography, an open-access list of texts written by women about architecture that challenges the boundaries of each of these three terms. Located at www.womenwritingarchitecture.org, the list, its mechanisms and their products evolve communally through conversations, invitations and spontaneous suggestions. These are offered as a resource for gathering collections of texts, for encouragement and provocation, for finding new writers, and for insight into what is happening in the vivid realm where women speak up for themselves.
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08.12., 6 pm
Jos Boys (Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative) & Sol Pérez Martínez
Talk
Building feminism
Jos Boys, one of the founders of Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, a collective active in the 1980s in London and whose practice is exhibited in Space as Matrix, will be in conversation with Sol Pérez Martinez, member of WoWA (Women Writing Architecture), Group Hultzsch, a research group at the Institute of Theory and History of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Boys and Pérez Martínez will discuss Matrix’s practice, determined by a flat organizational structure, intersectional principles and collaborative methods, their legacy today as well as their influences, including the work of Susana Torre – architect, critic, and educator, whose text, Space as Matrix, forms the theoretical framework of the exhibition.
Jos Boys is one of the founding members of Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative. Currently, she is Course Director for the MSc Learning Environments at the Bartlett UCL, with a particular interest in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) issues; and in co-relating learning spaces within and beyond the academy. Recently, together with artist Zoe Partington, she co-founded The Dis/Ordinary Architecture Project (previously called Architecture Inside Out) a collaborative platform that develops a variety of initiatives bringing together the creativity of disabled artists with architectural students, educators and practitioners. She is author of Doing Disability Differently: an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life (Routledge 2014) and is editor of Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader (Routledge 2017).
Sol Pérez Martínez is an architect, researcher and educator, currently a member of WoWA, a research project of Group Hultzsch at gta – Institute for the Theory and History of Architecture ETH – focusing on female experiences of the built environment between 1700 and 1900. Pérez Martínez holds a PhD in Architecture & Education from The Bartlett and the Institute of Education at UCL, as well as a Master in Architectural History and a Master in Architecture from the UK and Chile respectively. Pérez Martínez ran an architectural practice where she and her firm partners developed projects for private clients and the Chilean government. Their last public building in 2014 was a school in the South of Chile, which inspired her research about architecture, education and public engagement. Since then, Sol has collaborated with teachers, artists, architects and community groups in public history projects, curating educational programs, conferences and exhibitions to widen the public’s involvement in architecture and the built environment.
Drinks will be served after the event.
Date: Wednesday, 28 September 2022 to Friday, 9 December 2022
Location: ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg
In the framework of the exhibition Space as Matrix, a programme of events will run during two weeks, from November 28th to December 8th.
29.11., 5–7 pm
The Alternative School of Economics & muf architecture/art
Workshop
01.12., 6 pm
Morgan Quaintance et al.
Screening
06.12., 10 am, noon, 2 pm, 4 pm
Maria Fusco & Women Writing Architecture
Readings
08.12., 6 pm
Jos Boys (Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative) & Sol Pérez Martinez
Talk
--
29.11., 5–7 pm
The Alternative School of Economics & muf architecture /art
Workshop
The number of participants for this event is limited. To register send an email to ausstellungen@arch.ethz.ch
Feminist Economies in Architecture
Led by The Alternative School of Economics in collaboration with muf architecture/art, this workshop will explore what a feminist approach to making architecture might look like from the perspective of resources and relationships. Drawing on the idea of ‘Radmin’ (Radical Admin – pioneered by artist and feral economist Kate Rich), participants will collectively define the elements of a feminist budget, such as resources, organising, hierarchy and time.
The Alternative School of Economics is a collaboration between artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck, initiated in 2012. As an ‘alternative school’, they use both creative processes and self-education to study economics and economies. Using reciprocal modes of learning and making, they work with communities to investigate political, social and cultural issues, from finance to identity, to alternative and feminist economies. They use diverse and creative methodologies, and collaborate with experts from a variety of fields, experience and disciplines from sociologists, writers, and economists to union activists, parents and poets, to produce film, graphics, photography, texts and clothing, as forms of activation, dissemination and reflection.
Current & recent projects include Artists’ Economies, a poster artwork around Oslo for 100 Years of Conviviality, UKS, Oslo, The End of the Present, digital publication and residency with Arts Catalyst, London & Sheffield, Rabbits Road Institute Library, a community collection and creative programme, and The Neoliberal Imagination with Decentralising Political Economies, The Whitworth, Manchester / Liverpool John Moores University / The Association of Arte Útil.
Muf architecture/art is one of the practices exhibited in Space as Matrix. In their own words, muf architecture / art describe their practice as “making space for more than one (fragile) thing at a time”. muf work mainly in the public realm, in close participation with future users of their built structures. They often approach their work by emphasizing what is already there, connecting previously divided areas or shifting the focus from what the brief says to what the space and its occupants require. Throughout their processes, the question as to the value of knowledge production – what knowledge they are producing, for whom and at what cost – is present. Based in London, muf began practising in 1995. As their name states, muf positions their practice between art and architecture, frequently operating to subvert the conditions of the architectural services market and propose an alternative economy. muf have sometimes advised their clients not to build, which potentially loses them work, or pushed a commission much further than a client had anticipated.
--
01.12., 6 pm
Morgan Quaintance et al.
Screening
Screening with works selected by Morgan Quaintance, whose piece Another Decade (2018) is on view in the exhibition Space as Matrix. Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work focusses on social histories and their reverberations in the present, often confronting the past in filmic montages combining archival material and new footage. The screening programme compiled by Quaintance will include Rollostraat 18 (2021) from his ongoing series Miniatures – shorts all under four minutes long that depart from Quaintance’s usual essayistic work to visualize a concept or an idea, a note, more intuitive in method and quick in production.
Morgan Quaintance has exhibited at festivals and institutions including MOMA, New York; Konsthall C, Sweden; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami. IN 2017, he wrote The New Conservatism: Complicity and the UK Art World’s Performance of Progression. He is the recipient of the 2022 ARTE Award at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg; in 2021, the Best Documentary Short Film Award at Tacoma Film Festival, USA; the UK Short Film Award at Open City Documentary Film Festival, London, amongst others.
After the programme by Quaintance, there will be a screening of the documentary The Heretics (2009) by Joan Braderman on the collective of artists, writers and architects including Lucy Lippard, Miriam Schapiro, Su Friedrich, Joan Snyder and Susana Torre – whose work is exhibited in Space as Matrix – that ran the journal Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977-92).
Drinks will be served before and after the screening.
---
06.12., 10 am, noon, 2 pm, 4 pm
Maria Fusco & Women Writing Architecture
Readings
The number of participants for this event is limited. To register send an email stating your desired time-slot to ausstellungen@arch.ethz.ch
In four time slots throughout the day, Maria Fusco will hold live, remote readings for a small audience. Taking place within the exhibition Space as Matrix, Fusco’s voice will occupy the space temporarily, performing an intimacy, an immediacy that is a vital part of her writing practice. The protagonists of this performance are the speaking as well as the listening body. Fusco will read four “legends” from Legend of the Necessary Dreamer (2017, Vanguard Editions London), adding more pockets of real and fictional time to the already layered structure of the book.
'A modest epic written in real-time, Maria Fusco’s Legend of the Necessary Dreamer records some weeks in June 2013 when her narrator went every day to Lisbon’s Palácio Pombal in order to write about it. But 'it', of course, isn’t only the building, but the wraparound sensual act of perceiving. As she writes, I am trying to turn myself into a recording device…. Fusco’s book examines what it means not just to look, but to think, feel and remember. Legend expands the bounds of discursion. It’s a new classic of female philosophical fiction.'
Chris Kraus
The event is co-hosted with Women Writing Architecture who will extend the event’s reading on www.womenwritingarchitecture.org in various formats, including their new Glossator: a mechanism for collating, interpreting and annotating constellations of matter, written and spoken.
Professor Maria Fusco is an interdisciplinary writer working across criticism, fiction and performance, she holds a Personal Chair at the University of Dundee and is Visiting Professor at Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Frankfurt. She is the author of eight books, including Legend of the Necessary Dreamer, has collaborated with artists such as Ursula Mayer, whose work Cinesexual is on view in Space as Matrix, and is the editor of the series The Happy Hypocrite, available in the gta exhibitions bookshop Madam ETH, which ran until 2021 and included issues such as Linguistic Hardcore, A Rather Large Weapon and Fresh Hell, with contributions by Cosey Fanni Tutti, CAConrad, P. Staff, McKenzie Wark and Charlotte Prodger, amongst many more.
At the heart of Women Writing Architecture is an ever-growing annotated bibliography, an open-access list of texts written by women about architecture that challenges the boundaries of each of these three terms. Located at www.womenwritingarchitecture.org, the list, its mechanisms and their products evolve communally through conversations, invitations and spontaneous suggestions. These are offered as a resource for gathering collections of texts, for encouragement and provocation, for finding new writers, and for insight into what is happening in the vivid realm where women speak up for themselves.
--
08.12., 6 pm
Jos Boys (Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative) & Sol Pérez Martínez
Talk
Building feminism
Jos Boys, one of the founders of Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, a collective active in the 1980s in London and whose practice is exhibited in Space as Matrix, will be in conversation with Sol Pérez Martinez, member of WoWA (Women Writing Architecture), Group Hultzsch, a research group at the Institute of Theory and History of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Boys and Pérez Martínez will discuss Matrix’s practice, determined by a flat organizational structure, intersectional principles and collaborative methods, their legacy today as well as their influences, including the work of Susana Torre – architect, critic, and educator, whose text, Space as Matrix, forms the theoretical framework of the exhibition.
Jos Boys is one of the founding members of Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative. Currently, she is Course Director for the MSc Learning Environments at the Bartlett UCL, with a particular interest in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) issues; and in co-relating learning spaces within and beyond the academy. Recently, together with artist Zoe Partington, she co-founded The Dis/Ordinary Architecture Project (previously called Architecture Inside Out) a collaborative platform that develops a variety of initiatives bringing together the creativity of disabled artists with architectural students, educators and practitioners. She is author of Doing Disability Differently: an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life (Routledge 2014) and is editor of Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader (Routledge 2017).
Sol Pérez Martínez is an architect, researcher and educator, currently a member of WoWA, a research project of Group Hultzsch at gta – Institute for the Theory and History of Architecture ETH – focusing on female experiences of the built environment between 1700 and 1900. Pérez Martínez holds a PhD in Architecture & Education from The Bartlett and the Institute of Education at UCL, as well as a Master in Architectural History and a Master in Architecture from the UK and Chile respectively. Pérez Martínez ran an architectural practice where she and her firm partners developed projects for private clients and the Chilean government. Their last public building in 2014 was a school in the South of Chile, which inspired her research about architecture, education and public engagement. Since then, Sol has collaborated with teachers, artists, architects and community groups in public history projects, curating educational programs, conferences and exhibitions to widen the public’s involvement in architecture and the built environment.
Drinks will be served after the event.
