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Fiction as Friction
Fiction as Friction
A conversation on crafting resistance and solidarity between Grandeza Studio (Amaia Sánchez-Velasco, Jorge Valiente Oriol, and Gonzalo Valiente Oriol), Aude Christel Mgba, and Bruno Alves de Almeida.
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Forces of Friction
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Fictions of Fictions
Fictions of Fictions
Piper Bernbaum on the material facts and urban fictions of the Eruv wars in Jerusalem
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Figuring Territory
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Oh Bungalow...
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The terms contemplation, solitude, exile, leisure, rest, retreat, reverse, and solitude—and their antonyms action, court, world, worldliness and society—constitute a recurring chain of ideas in seventeenth-century fictional and biographical literature. From Society to Solitude combines history, literature, and architecture, focusing on the theme of the retreat and its(...)
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12 October 1994 to 15 January 1995
From Society to Solitude: Public and Private Space in Seventeenth-Century France
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The terms contemplation, solitude, exile, leisure, rest, retreat, reverse, and solitude—and their antonyms action, court, world, worldliness and society—constitute a recurring chain of ideas in seventeenth-century fictional and biographical literature. From Society to Solitude combines history, literature, and architecture, focusing on the theme of the retreat and its(...)
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12 October 1994 to
15 January 1995
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Starting From... Travel
Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
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3 December 2008 to 1 May 2009
Starting From... Travel
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Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theater
30 January 2020, 6:30pm
Paul-Desmarais Theater
David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
9 May 2013 , 7pm
Learning from... Johannesburg
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David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
YouTube and Instagram
26 May 2020 to 27 May 2020
YouTube and Instagram
Learning from... Montréal
Lance Blomgren uses his 2009 book Walkups—a novella set entirely within Montréal’s row house apartment buildings—as a springboard for an analysis of the discursive plane of fictional architecture. Looking at works by John Hejduk, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Aycock and others, Blomgren argues that contemporary modes of speculative architecture offer a vital, if ethically fraught,(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
2 May 2013 , 7pm
Learning from... Montréal
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Lance Blomgren uses his 2009 book Walkups—a novella set entirely within Montréal’s row house apartment buildings—as a springboard for an analysis of the discursive plane of fictional architecture. Looking at works by John Hejduk, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Aycock and others, Blomgren argues that contemporary modes of speculative architecture offer a vital, if ethically fraught,(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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1970-1978
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1970-1978