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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">Please attend our Monday Night Lecture
Series @ VAP on the topic “Give Me Shelter,” focusing on living
conditions in unstable times and body wear. Our next lecture in the
series:<br>
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Monday, December 3, 2007<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">7:00-9:00 PM<br>
</font><b>Didier Fiuza Faustino<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">LECTURE: <b>(G)host in the
(S)hell<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica"><b>Joan Jonas Performance Hall
(N51-337)<br>
</b>There is no human mind without a body. To live in this time of new
media and communication networks, you must recover your awareness of the
physical world. Architecture may be a tool to emphasize our senses and
sharpen our consciousness of reality, which tends to be erased by speed
and over-information.<br>
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</i><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">“Didier Fiuza Faustino / Bureau des
Mésarchitectures’s work reciprocally summons up art from architecture and
architecture from art, indistinctly using genres in a way that summarizes
an ethical and political attitude about the conditions for constructing a
place in the socio-cultural fabric of the city. Spaces, buildings and
objects show themselves to be platforms for the intersection of the
individual body and the collective body in their use. Each project
represents a concept that subverts the social context; in which seeing is
experimenting beyond submission to the dichotomy of the rules that
normally mark out public space and private space. The body is recentered
on the basis of the social implications of the space, alerting people to
the dangers of subjecting it to an ambiguity of representation that may
contribute towards their forgetting its identity.” ~ João Fernandes: In
“Didier Fiuza Faustino / Bureau des Mésarchitectures”, exhibition
catalogue, non pag. ed. Museu Serralves, Portugal.<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">Directions<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">The MIT Visual Arts Program is located
above the MIT Museum. Enter through the grey door on Front Street and
take the elevator to the third floor. Exit to your left and go down the
ramp. The Joan Jonas Performance Hall is located on the right.<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">By Public Transportation<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">Take the Red Line to Central Square.
Walk four blocks along Massachusetts Avenue towards Boston and the
Charles River, or take the #1 bus to the Front Street stop.<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">*This lecture series has been made
possible with a special grant by the Office of the Dean, School of
Architecture and Planning.<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">Massachusetts Institute of
Technology<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">Visual Arts Program<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">Department of Architecture<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">Bldg N51-337, 3rd floor,<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">Joan Jonas Performance Hall<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">265 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">For information call <br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">617-253-5229<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">Further information:<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">web.mit.edu/vap/ <br>
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