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ARCHITECTURE+PHILOSOPHY
2010
FEBRUARY
Architecture+Philosophy and Experimenta present:
The
Nauru Elegies: A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture
Annie K. Kwon
6:00pm
Tuesday, 16 February
RMIT 8.11.68 (Bldg 8, 360 Swanston St. Level 11, lecture theatre
68, to the right of the lifts)

EXHIBITION:
THE NAURU ELEGIES PROJECT
By Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) and Annie K. Kwon
Utopia Now: International Biennial of Media Art
a project of EXPERIMENTA
Blindside, Level 7, Room 14, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street
from February 19 to March 6, 10am-5pm
www.experimenta.org
The Nauru Elegies
is a multi-media portrait through the approach of an architect and
composer. The Republic of Nauru is a small island in the South Pacific
Ocean. With a land surface of just 21km², it is the world's
smallest independent state and at its core, represents a place at
the most remote extreme of the planet. Its seemingly utopic geography
and landscape stages a dystopic economy and society. Investigation
is based on on-site research of the subject, the island-nation of
Nauru. The portrait reclaims a new architecture within local hypsographic
territory at a culmination of global currents and posits a deep
structural connection between digital media, landscape, and new
forms of compositional strategies based on the "de-territorialized"
aesthetics of a world economy that mirrors the geopolitical tensions
of the early 21st century.
Polyphonic issues
include matters of ecology and raw material (phosphate), geo-political
history, virtual banking and economic corruption, global climate
issues and information networks. Architectural structures and sound
compositions are formed by scripts embedded in this landscape of
erasure. The Nauru Elegies unveils a heterotopic, remote island
at the core of modern life through visual and invisible flows and
patterns.
The poet Goethe
once wrote: “architecture is nothing but frozen music.”
The Nauru Elegies asks how does one create a landscape portrait
of an island in sound, architecture, and above all – digital
information?

ANNIE
K. KWON (b. 1977, Portland, USA, lives and works New York, USA)
is an architect and artist who was a head designer with Skidmore
Owings and Merrill in New York and EMBT in Barcelona. Her most recent
projects as the founder of Kwonix are the design and construction
of James Turrell’s studio in New York City and the scenography
design for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Her work has been
featured in A+U: Tall Buildings and Abstract of Columbia University.
She is a professor at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design
and curator of contemporary architecture + performance in New York
and Seoul.
www.kwonix.com

The
Nauru Elegies: A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture
A project of
EXPERIMENTA Utopia Now: International Biennial of Media
Art
Blindside, Level 7, Room 14, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street
from February 19 to March 6, 10am-5pm
www.experimenta.org
NEXT
MONTH
The
Trauma of Being-in-Common:
Towards a Philosophy of the City
Prof Andrew Benjamin FAHA
Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics
Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
6:00pm Thursday, 26 March in RMIT 8.11.68
(Bldg 8, 360 Swanston St. Level 11, lecture theatre 68, to the right
of the lifts)
Details
forthcoming
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