Residency & Symposium: How to Make Waste Public: Experiments with Infrastructure
Saturday, Apr 19, 201412 PM — Saturday, May 31, 201411:13 PMEDT
| Rear Gallery, WUHO, 6518 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
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Curatorial Residency & Symposium Organized by Curt Gambetta, Woodbury University School of Architecture WUHO 6518 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028 Symposium Location: Rear Gallery, WUHO April 19 1:30-6:00 PM The symposium brings into conversation critical perspectives on artistic and architectural interventions into the waste stream. It focuses on three sites of cultural and spatial experimentation, including experiments with materiality, the design of facilities and cultural norms about waste making and disposal. In juxtaposing practices that span art, pedagogy and architectural practice, the panel will reflect on the multivalent role of experimentation with the consequences of abject, dangerous substances such as garbage. If knowledge about waste and its consequences is increasingly invisible and complex, how do experimental practices open up the world of waste to new forms of inquiry, invention and urban experience? SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE April 19th, 1:30-6:00pm Opening Remarks Curt Gambetta 1:30-1:45 Site I: Practices Maite Zubiarre (UCLA) 1:45-2:15 "The Land of Away: From Dumpster to Landfill" Margo Handwerker (UCLA) 2:15-2:45 "Not your father's land art: women and waste management" Discussant: Tim Durfee (Media Design Practices, Art Center) 2:45-3:00 Site II: Materials Lydia Kallipoliti: (Syracuse University and Cooper Union) 3:00-3:30 "Garbage Housing Versus Spiritual Naturalism" Discussant: Paulette Singley (Woodbury University) 3:30-3:45 Break 3:45-4:00 Site III: Facilities Mariana Moglievich: (New York University) 4:00-4:30 "Monument, Landscape, Museum? Waste Spaces and their Publics" Curt Gambetta: (Woodbury University) 4:30-5:00 “Exposure Pathways” Discussant: Victor Jones (USC School of Architecture) 5:00-5:15 Concluding remarks and discussion: 5:15-6:00 Residency Resident: Curt Gambetta, Woodbury School of Architecture WUHO Gallery Skylight Space http://architecture.woodbury.edu/wuho/ April 19-May 31 Opening Saturday, 19 April, 6:00-8:00 PM How to Make Waste Public is a curatorial residency about architectural and artistic experiments with the consequences of society’s waste-making. Culturally, waste is understood as a largely private dilemma—a moral and technological responsibility of private individuals and increasingly large private corporations. Furthermore, its smells, toxins and byproducts are bagged, pressed and sent to the periphery of cities and economies. In these and other ways, waste remains an open secret, a process that society participates in but rarely acknowledges. In response, the residency examines artistic, architectural and scholarly practices that question this veil of secrecy. Seen together, these practices propose that waste is a cultural and spatial problem as much as a technical issue. Alongside a salon of design research conducted in collaboration with architecture students at Woodbury University and the Buffalo School of Architecture, it will explore practices such as architecture, video and land art from the past few decades, examining the aesthetic and spatial possibilities of making waste public. Open studio, 1-6pm: dates TBA http://architecture.woodbury.edu/wuho-how-to-make-waste-public/ http://assemblyoftrash.net
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