December events

Join us at e-flux in drawing the year to a close with a screening program, architecture lecture, and performance. On Tuesday, December 3, we are pleased to host The Analytical Camera, featuring two works by duo Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, alongside a short film by Radu Jude. On Thursday, December 5, architectural historian Ateya Khorakiwala presents “Shells and Silos: An Epistemic Accounting of Instability and Cracks,” as part of e-flux Architecture Lectures. On Thursday, December 12, Zeena Parkins concludes our 2024 programming with Lace Action Cards, a performance with Craig Taborn and Ishmael Houston-Jones.

Tuesday, December 3, 2024
The Analytical Camera: Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Radu Jude
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The Analytical Camera, a screening program guest-curated by George MacBeth, highlights the technical procedure of found-footage filmmaking and militant investigation developed by duo Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi. An affront against both chemical and cultural amnesia, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi’s analytical camera urges a non-didactic reflection on the true face of violence both then and now—often impassive, smartly attired, or else lighting, grinning, and mugging for the camera. These enormously influential and much-imitated films confirm the truth of two seemingly opposed twentieth-century apophthegms on history: L.P. Hartley’s observation, “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there”; and Faulkner’s claim, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Two films by Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi, Animali Criminali (1994) and Images of the Orient: Vandal Tourism (2001), will be screened alongside a more recent work from Radu Jude, The Marshal’s Two Executions (2018), which itself undertakes an analytical investigation into how cinema conceals as much as it reveals. Read more here.

Thursday, December 5, 2024
Ateya Khorakiwala, “Shells and Silos: An Epistemic Accounting of Instability and Cracks”
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In India in the 1960s and 1970s, civil engineers recommended and designed reinforced concrete thin shell warehouses to absorb the unpredictable excesses of grain production from the so-called Green Revolution. At the same time, agricultural economists recommended reinforced concrete silos as technologies to store food grains as a mode of famine protection to fortify the economy from unpredictable scarcities. As such, a kind of science of grain storage developed (largely around wheat, but also rice), and a “gray architecture” consisting of warehouses, godowns, and silos was called in to manage—to stabilize—the value of grain in its commodity form. This talk by architectural historian Ateya Khorakiwala examines the architectural and infrastructural objects that embodied the different epistemic anxieties of engineers and economists. Read more here. 

Tuesday, December 12, 2024
Lace Action Cards: Zeena Parkins, with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Craig Taborn
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Artist Zeena Parkins will be joined by musician Craig Taborn and choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones for Lace Action Cards, part of Parkins’s ongoing Lace Project, initially commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 2008 for their “Music in the Studio” series. This multi-movement research project explores the concept of lace as an embodiment of a score—a translation of image into sound and movement. It examines patterning, morphing, overlays, and the relationships between materials. Lace Action Cards will generate new possibilities for this concept by reconfiguring and reshaping lace patterns to become stamps that leave marks on performers and audiences alike. Read more here.

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