[Sci-tech-public] Tonight!!! ZOE - Thierry Nlandu and Marjetica Potrc - Monday, April 14, 6-9p @ Bartos Theatre

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>* Special Location and New Start Time.
>
>Monday, April 14, 2008
>6:00p–9:00p
>Location: 
><http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=bartos&mapsearch=go>E15, 
>Bartos Theatre
>
>ZONES OF EMERGENCY - lecture series
>Thierry Nlandu and Marjetica Potrc
>
>ZOE 
>Blog: 
><http://www.zonesofemergency.net/event-calendar/>http://www.zonesofemergency.net/event-calendar/
>Event 
>Poster: 
><http://web.mit.edu/vap/downloads/VAP_Mondays_Potrc.pdf>http://web.mit.edu/vap/downloads/VAP_Mondays_Potrc.pdf
>
>Playwright, activist and founder of Le Group 
>Amos, Thierry Nlandu, will talk about Picture 
>Book on Participatory Democracy - An Art’s Act 
>of Resistance against Facade Democracy, 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 Frontier Power 
>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.
>
>Thierry Nlandu, 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.
>
>Marjetica Potrc 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).
>
>Directions 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.
>
>By Public Transportation 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.
>
>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.
>
>MIT Visual Arts Program
>James Pollack
>Assistant to the Director
>
><mailto:vap at mit.edu>vap at mit.edu
>Direct line: (617) 253-5229
>Fax: (617) 253-3977
>265 Mass. Ave., Bldg. N51-328
>Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
>
>further information and news
><http://web.mit.edu/vap/flash.html>http://web.mit.edu/vap/
>
>

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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