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* Special Location and New Start Time.<br>
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<font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>Monday, April 14, 2008<br>
</b></font><font size=4>6:00p–9:00p<br>
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<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=bartos&mapsearch=go">
<font size=4 color="#0000F3">E15</a></font><font size=4>, Bartos
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<font size=4><b>ZONES OF EMERGENCY - lecture series<br>
Thierry Nlandu and Marjetica Potrc<br>
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http://www.zonesofemergency.net/event-calendar/</a><br>
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http://web.mit.edu/vap/downloads/VAP_Mondays_Potrc.pdf</a><br>
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<font size=4>Playwright, activist and founder of Le Group Amos, Thierry
Nlandu, will talk about <i>Picture Book on Participatory Democracy </i>-
<i>An Art’s Act of Resistance against Facade Democracy</i>, a project
that informs citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and help
them build a democracy that extends beyond national elections to everyday
life, praxis and culture. Marjetica Potrc will give a talk entitled
<i>Frontier Power </i>comparing three of her recent research projects:
the Western Balkans (LHE), the Amazonian state of Acre in western Brazil,
and the city of New Orleans. She will address how the breakdown of
twentieth-century modernism is followed by territorialization, which
stops at the final frontiers of the human body and the structures that
shelter it.<br>
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<font size=4><b><i>Thierry Nlandu, </b>2007 Abramowitz
Artist-in-Residence at MIT, is Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the
University of Kinshasa, Congo, where he teaches Anglo-American
literature. The dramatist and a sociopolitical activist is founder and
member of “Le Group Amos.” He has participated in various platforms of
Documenta11, and the films of “Le Groupe Amos” have been screened widely
at documentary film festivals but as well at MOMA NYC. Presently, he is
the Executive Secretary of the Provincial Government in Kinshasa,
DRC.<br>
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<font size=4><b><i>Marjetica Potrc </b>is a Ljubljana-based artist and
architect. Her work has been shown extensively around the world. Her
on-site projects improve the relation between the individual and
society.In 2005, she co-organized the LHE Lost Highway Expedition. Potrc
has won several awards including the Hugo Boss Prize, the Guggenheim
Museum New York (2000), and the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics
Fellowship at the New School, New York (2007).<br>
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<font size=4><b>Directions </b>MIT Bartos Theater is located on the
ground floor of the Wiesner Building on MIT campus (20 Ames Street
Building E15, Atrium level, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139). The Wiesner
Building is found on the eastern edge of the MIT Campus. It is in close
proximity to Kendall Square, Memorial Drive, and the Longfellow
Bridge.<br>
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<font size=4><b>By Public Transportation </b>Take the red line to the
Kendall/MIT stop, follow Main St. west to Ames St., turn left, walk the
distance of about one block to the cross walk and the Wiesner Building,
identifiable by its white gridded exterior, will be on your left.<br>
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<font size=4><b>Thanks This event is a collaboration with MIT‘s Office
for the Arts‘ Artist-in-Residence Program. Thank you. Michele
Oshima and Lynn Heinemann, Office for the Arts at MIT. 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 size=2 color="#FF0F00"><b>MI</font><font size=2 color="#FF0000">
T</font><font size=2 color="#FF0F00"> Visual</b> Arts Program<br>
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</b>Assistant to the Director<br><br>
<font size=2 color="#FF0000"><a href="mailto:vap@mit.edu">vap@mit.edu</a>
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</font><font size=2>Direct line: (617) 253-5229<br>
Fax: (617) 253-3977<br>
265 Mass. Ave., Bldg. N51-328<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA<br>
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<font size=2>further information and news<br>
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<a href="http://web.mit.edu/vap/flash.html">http://web.mit.edu/vap/</a>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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