On Thursday the 14th of April from 19:30-21:00 CET Het Nieuwe Instituut will be hosting an online Thursday Night Live! as we are closing off this year's iteration of the Tilting Axis Fellowship.
Cuban architect-duo Anadis Gonzales and Fernando Martirena, founders of Infraestudio, are the recipients of the Tilting Axis/Het Nieuwe Instituut Research Fellowship 2021/2022. During this evening they will present a series of fictional projects developed during the fellowship, which critically question the relationship between architectural design and current problems such as political transparency, the boycott of ecology, censorship, surveillance and punishment. Invited to join the conversation are Neyran Turan and Jonas Staal. This event is moderated by Federica Notari.
Untitled (The Universal Art Museum of Cuba and the 5 Star Hotel Manzana Kempinski) by Infraestudio, 2020.
During their fellowship Gonzales and Martirena focused on developing and investigating the relationships between architecture, politics and theatre. Where do these practices meet and what happens when we think of architecture as a theatre? What kind of impact can this have to subvert certain political contexts? Can architecture have an effective political agency, simultaneously with its functional one?
For more information about Anadis Gonzales, Fernando Martirena, guest speakers Neyran Turan and Jonas Staal, or the Tilting Axis/Het Nieuwe Instituut Research Fellowship, visit HNI’s website.
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For those of you that are interested to join us for the evening, below find links to the free Eventbrite and also links to our website, both in Dutch and English, where you can find more information on the event. Once you register on Eventbrite a link to the online event will be share with you through email.
Website Eng: https://thursdaynight.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/activities/architecture-theatre
Website Ned: https://thursdaynight.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/activiteiten/architectuur-als-theater