ARCHITECTURE / ENVIRONMENT / LANDSCAPE
A CONVERSATION AND PODCAST SERIES (2017-2018)
“What grounds is the test (épreuve).”
Gilles Deleuze
IL’s Conversation Series for the 2017-2018 academic year features image-workers who observe, problematize, photograph, and curate images of architecture and of the built environment.
PERSPECTIVES AFTER ETHNOS WITH TOBIAS REES
What if the equation of anthropology, study of things human, with ethnography, the study and description of an ethnos, were a recent event? And what if one set out to undo this equation? If one were to cut loose the former from the...
TROUBLED GROUND WITH IAIN CHAMBERS
Chambers was interviewed in October as part of the Image lab’s 2017-2018 conversation series Architecture, Landscape, Environment. Chambers shares with us pedagogical, personal, and political insights on his formative years at the...
WALKING IN SOMEBODY ELSE’S DREAM WITH LUCA GALOFARO
Assembling images as I do in my work does not mean assimilating them to fit them into a logical narrative plot, but juxtaposing single fragments, conserving their multiplicity, partiality and impurities to make their combination or...
ON MIES’ LAFAYETTE PARK WITH JANINE DEBANNE
These events, where variety, difference, and individuality were expressed in the backdrops of Mies Van Der Rohe's quite curtain-wall facades, belonged to a kind of otherworldly realm of happiness and possibility. Remembering. The...
MYTHOPOETIC CINEMA: RUINS & BRIDGES WITH KRISS RAVETTO
In these pages I analyze cinematic responses to speculation over and the spectrality of European identity in the post-Soviet era by showing how filmmakers--better than politicians and political commentators---have been able to engage...