Have You Kicked A Building Lately? – Not For Sale Panel
Have You Kicked A Building Lately? - The latest Not For Sale panel will discuss the relationship between performance and architecture. It will examine the the role of biennials and festivals to activate the city and foster cultural activism as a form of radical urbanism.
Taking its title from a 1989 collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic and writer Ada Louise Huxtable, Have You Kicked a Building Lately? encourages the following questions: How do artists and architects manipulate, activate and disturb urban space? Is it possible for architecture and the urban environment to be integral actors in a live event’s unfolding rather than just providing the stage? How does live performance occupy a space and create a destination where people want to go and return to again and again? How can architects and artists work together and create a space for theatrical possibility?
The panel will feature Vito Acconci, Elizabeth Berger, Beatriz Colomina, and Teddy Cruz, with respondents Glenn Weiss, Alexander Pincus, and Peter Zuspan. It will be introduced and moderated by RoseLee Goldberg.
When: Wednesday, May 26th at 6pm (doors will open at 5:30)
Where: Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union (41 Cooper Square)
Tickets: FREE
Seating is limited. Please RSVP to guarantee a seat.
RSVP t0 notforsale@performa-arts.org
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