BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:www-angam-phil-fau-de//Events//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Jack Halberstam (Columbia University)\, Open Lecture: "B roken Windows: The Art of Demolition" UID:d9b4-9638-f3dd-28577@www.angam.phil.fau.de DESCRIPTION:Open Lecture: “\;Broken Windows: The Art of Demolitio n”\; While New York City is a now thoroughly financialized and ge ntrified space\, New York City in the mid-1970‘\;s was the terrai n for a competing set of relations to masonry\, buildings\, walls\, gl ass and the business of art and architecture. Through a prismatic juxt aposition of artists who are rarely read in relation to one another\, we can assess these competing visions of the city\, some utopian and o thers dystopian\, some committed to improvement\, others to destitutio n. And while artists Gordon Matta-Clark and Beverly Buchanan\, in very different ways\, shared a love of decaying walls and crumbling brick and saw in them alternative forms of vitality\, as we will see\, busin essman architect\, Philip Johnson\, entertained fascistic visions of s ocial domination through architecture and of individual greatness thro ugh monumentality. A closer look at Johnson‘\;s work demonstrates  that there is a potentially sinister side to improvement\, expansio n\, repair and shiny surfaces. This talk examines the dynamics of buil ding and unbuilding in relation to queer community\, aesthetic practic e and discourses of urban renewal. Jack Halberstam\, Professor of Gend er Studies and English at Columbia University\, has not only been one of the leading experts concerning the discourses around ideas of gende r\, sexuality and queerness\, he is one of the pioneering thinkers in this field. Among other publications\, his award-winning book Female M asculinity (Duke UP\, 1998) offered groundbreaking considerations on c onstructions of masculinity in pop culture and contemporary society at large. Halberstam developed the idea of a categorically different tem poral and spatial framework outside of heteronormativity in his work I n a Queer Time and Place (Duke UP\, 2005)\, situating transgender theo ry at the center of his research. At Columbia\, he is director of the Institute for Research on Women\, Gender and Sexualit DTSTART:20250630T180000Z DTEND:20250630T200000Z LOCATION:
Alter Senatssaal (Kollegienhaus)
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