A conversations-marathon
April 23, 2021
Marcelo López-Dinardi, with the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts at Texas A&M University, presents MAKING THE PUBLIC–COMMONS.
MAKING THE PUBLIC–COMMONS is an installation and a conversations-marathon project motivated by the ambition and need to elaborate our positions towards the making and building of public–commons, primarily through an act of appearance and conversation much required in our cultural context. The project relies mainly on direct dialogue and embodied engagement, two crucial forms of impact in our contemporary culture beyond quantitative metrics. It proposes and promotes dialogue and conversations around topics of—but not limited to—how and what constitutes the public and the commons, and why it is critical to appear in public today as we continue to battle the isolating impact of the global pandemic. Conversations include public–commons and institutions, commoning, landscapes, justice, measures, cooperation, water, ecologies, language, and appearance.
MAKING THE PUBLIC–COMMONS is conceived, curated, and organized by Marcelo López-Dinardi.
The conversations-marathon will take place in an installation in the Architecture Quad at Texas A&M University and virtually online.
Schedule
9am: institutions
Marina Otero Verzier, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Design Academy Eindhoven (Netherlands)
10am: commoning
Pelin Tan, Batman University (Turkey), Center for Arts, Design and Social Research (US), Thessaly University (Greece)
11am: landscapes
Elise Misao Hunchuck, Royal College of Art, The Bartlett School of Architecture (UK), transmediale Berlin (Germany)
12pm: justice
Bryan Lee Jr., Colloqate, Design As Protest (US)
1pm: measures
AD–WO, Emanuel Admassu, Jen Wood (US/Australia/Ethiopia)
2pm: cooperation
COOPIA, Marielsa Castro, Felipe Guerra, Alejandra Sarria (Colombia/Mexico/Peru)
3pm: ecologies
Janette Kim, Urban Works Agency, CCA (US)
4pm: water
Linda Schilling Cuellar, AHORA (Chile)
5pm: language
Amira Hanafi, Artist (US/Egypt)
6pm: appearance
Fernando Portal, MILM2, Núcleo Lenguaje y Creación, UDLA (Chile)
When
Friday, April 23, 2021
Architecture Quad, Texas A&M University
9am-7pm CST
Free and open to everyone.
MAKING THE PUBLIC–COMMONS is possible thanks to a Pandemic Innovative Arts Grant by the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts of Texas A&M University.
