[Sci-tech-public] Monday Night Lecture Series @ VAP - Didier Fiuza Faustino - December 3, 2007

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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>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:
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>Monday, December 3, 2007
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>7:00-9:00 PM
>Didier Fiuza Faustino
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>LECTURE:  (G)host in the (S)hell
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>Joan Jonas Performance Hall (N51-337)
>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.
>
>“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.
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>Directions
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>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.
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>By Public Transportation
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>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.
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>*This lecture series has been made possible with 
>a special grant by the Office of the Dean, School of Architecture and Planning.
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>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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>Visual Arts Program
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>Department of Architecture
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>Bldg N51-337, 3rd floor,
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>Joan Jonas Performance Hall
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>265 Massachusetts Avenue
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>Cambridge, MA 02139
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>For information call
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>617-253-5229
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>Further information:
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>web.mit.edu/vap/


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