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Reuben Fowkes, Maja Fowkes
Oil Rocks was a magnet for artists who in the 1950s made the strenuous journey to witness the heroism of oil workers in their battle with the elements to extract Caspian “black gold”. This presentation considers the representations of Oil Rocks in socialist art as an exception to the general invisibility of the petroleum industry in modern literature and art. How can we account for the prominence of oil drilling imagery in Soviet Azerbaijani art and what does it tell us about the petroleum imaginary of the Socialist Anthropocene?
Štěpán Špoula, Tom Muller
Two lectures by landscape architects present possible ways of transformation of greenery in cities. Tom Muller talks about a climate-proof, sustainable, manageable and biodiversity-supportive process that is embraced by the public. Štěpán Špoula presents projects and strategies aimed at a river in the city.
Dalibor Dostál, Randal Plunkett
Randal Plunkett introduced a unique approach to wild landscape restoration called V-wilding. It combines ecological principles with vegan philosophy and offers a model for sustainable restoration of natural habitats. Dalibor Dostál focused on the return of large herbivores as a means of restoring biodiversity, which is disappearing today at an unprecedented rate.
Nikita Kadan
The lecture by the internationally known Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan at the Academy of Fine Arts was introduced and accompanied by a debate with the Russianist and semiotician Tomáš Glanc. Kadan lives and works in Kiev. He works with various media, including installation, sculpture, painting and collage.
Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan
Architect and investigative journalist Alison Killing presents the results and methodology of the research on mapping detention camps for the Uyghurs other Muslim minorities in China, for which her team was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2021. The project uncovered details of the mass detention of these groups in so-called “re-education” camps, which the Chinese government officially denies or downplays.
Laura Robson
This lecture examines the development of mass Palestinian displacement as a weapon of war, a tool of state-building, and a tool for enforcement of particular visions of imperial internationalism. It traces how Palestine became the site for the development of a specific modern refugee regime focused on decolonial containment, a process that continues to the present day.
Tom Balsley
Tom Balsley (SWA/Balsley) is a renowned architect with a wealth of experience based in New York. He has been transforming social and cultural spaces into sustainable and vibrant urban landscapes for over 35 years. In New York alone, he has completed more than 100 parks and squares.
Michelle Delk, Thomas Kissling
The May lecture from the Land/Scape series featured New York landscape architect Michelle Delk from Snøhetta and Swiss landscape architect Thomas Kissling from VOGT Landscape Architects. The topics were inspirational places for contemporary life, the connections between people and their surroundings, and water in the landscape.
Edit András
Edit András mainly follows engaged, socially sensitive and critical works of Hungarian art. She is interested in the changing social position of art and the ways in which it adapts to or resists the current situation. She looks at how post-socialist culture deals with its own past, the gendered aspects of Hungarian art, the relationship between culture and power, and how easily cultural and historical issues can be exploited politically.
Jürg Conzett
Jürg Conzett is a Swiss civil engineer mainly known for designing bridges. After studying at ETH Zurich and working for the architect Peter Zumthor, he started his own engineering office in 1988. It is now known as Conzett Bronzini Partner AG. Conzett’s most famous project is a series of three pedestrian bridges, located on the Veia Traversina trail of the Viamala in Switzerland.
Tom Emerson
In their designs, 6a deals with the reuse of already existing elements or what is at hand on site. However, it is not only their aim to reuse old buildings or their materials, but to also recycle the stories that support the emergence of a new authorial approach.
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