* Special Location and New Start Time.
Monday, April 14, 2008
6:00p9:00p
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 Arts 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 MITs
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
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Fax: (617) 253-3977
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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
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Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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