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Image: Paula Vilaplana. Produced for the 13th Shanghai Biennale

The 13th Shanghai Biennale Bodies of Water November 10, 2020–June 27, 2021 Power Station of Art 678 Miaojiang Road 200011 Shanghai China www.powerstationofart.com Instagram / Weibo / YouTube / #ShanghaiBiennale / #BodiesOfWater

“The flow and flush of waters sustain our own bodies, but also connect them to other bodies, to other worlds beyond our human selves.” –Astrida Neimanis

The 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water starts its in crescendo program convening artists, activists, scientists, thinks, and citizens at large to sense, discuss, and reconstruct wet-togetherness.

The Power Station of Art (PSA) is delighted to announce the opening of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water. For the first time, the biennale will unfold as an in crescendo project, launching November 10, with a five-day program titled PHASE 01: A WET-RUN REHEARSAL.

Challenging the usual art biennale format, it will be the first stage of an eight-month extended program that will allow the artists, thinkers and curators contributing to the Biennale to develop their work in close collaboration with the City of Shanghai, its people, networks of activism, organizations, and institutions. Bodies of Water will culminate with the opening of PHASE 03: AN EXHIBITION on April 10, 2021.

The Biennale’s Chief Curator, architect and writer Andrés Jaque, and its curatorial team composed of You Mi, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, and Filipa Ramos, are collaborating with the School of Philosophy of Fudan University, the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, and the multimedia network DOCU TV to run the five-day performed assembly, where lectures, debates, screenings, and workshops will turn the Power Station of Art into a space for bodily experimentation.

A Puerto Rican revolution was well underway when the trap artist-turned-political activist Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, known by his stage name Bad Bunny, got involved in the summer of 2019. He is pictured standing still, flag in hand, wearing a face mask and a plastic face shield. Using his immense popularity (with over 27 million Instagram followers, many of whom are young Puerto Ricans), Bad Bunny denounced a system that “has taught” the people “to stay quiet” and made them “believe that those who take the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.” These words were disseminated through a series of Instagram videos, a call to “show them [the government] that today’s generations demand respect” and that the country “belongs to all of us.” Through his social media platforms and later through his music, Bad Bunny joined many groups of activists in a collective demand for new emancipatory imaginaries in Puerto Rico.

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What About It: Architecture and Social Responsibility

—An architecture manifesto, as told to Deem by Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Architecture Think Tank

Photography by S. Leimbach 

The Bloom's Room

We investigate the possibilities of a room that provides the simulation of a flight. A system of fake freedom with no limits of the body possibilities is performed. The Bloom's room is the exaggeration of the rationale of the google offices or it can be read as a simple prison where the feeling of freedom is identified to the principle of incarcerating. Technically it investigates new functions of a "naked body cockpit" such as presented in a post of yours very recently (we expect this to be elaborated and promoted to a more sophisticated degree soon).

Read more at Quaderns: Population of Fragments or the Warehouse Man

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Entender el Territorio Andrés Jaque Metodología No. 7 

Andrés Jaque es arquitecto, escritor y comisario. Es fundador de la Oficina de Innovación Política, una práctica arquitectónica con sede en Nueva York / Madrid, que trabaja en la intersección del diseño, la investigación y las prácticas ambientales críticas. Ha sido galardonado con el Premio Frederick Kiesler, el León de Plata al Mejor Proyecto de la 14 Bienal de Venecia y el Premio Dionisio Hernández Gil a la intervención sobre enclaves históricos; y su obra forma parte de la colección del MoMA de Nueva York y del Art Institute of Chicago.

Actualmente, la Oficina desarrolla proyectos arquitectónicos para Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art (Museo del Océano en San Lorenzo, Venecia), Reggio School (El Encinar de los Reyes), Real Madrid y Museo Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (Móstoles).

Andrés Jaque es profesor en la Escuela de Posgrado de Arquitectura, Planificación y Preservación de la Universidad de Columbia, donde es el Director del Programa de Diseño Arquitectónico Avanzado. Ha sido profesor invitado en la Universidad de Princeton y The Cooper Union; y ha dado numerosas conferencias en todo el mundo. Entre sus publicaciones destacan: ‘Superpowers of Scale’ (2020), ‘Mies y la Gata Niebla: Ensayos sobre arquitectura y cosmopolítica (2019), Transmaterial Politics (2017),‘ PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society '(2013),' Transmaterial / Calculable '(2017),' Dulces Arenas Cotidianas '(2013) y' Superpowers of Ten '(2016).

Andrés Jaque es el Curador Jefe de la Bienal de Shanghai y Co-Curador de Manifesta 12, “El Jardín Planetario: Cultivando la Convivencia”.

Entender el Territorio

The rightward lurch in American politics has reinvigorated the study of poor and working-class communities. But instead of blazing new trails in this endeavor, the emerging literature seems to be reworking tired old tropes. In a review of four recent books, I show that approaches that are rightly rejected as explanations of social behavior among impoverished black communities are adopted with great aplomb in the study of working-class whites. Rather than seeing their political culture as a product of their social conditions, these works often see workers’ culture as built-in and unchanging. I observe that this just amounts to a revived “culture of poverty” discourse in the study of the working class.

Entender el Territorio

¿ Cuáles son aquellas variables fundamentales que recoge la mirada de quien observa un determinado lugar para luego entenderlo? ¿Existe una metodología propia para descifrar el sitio donde la arquitectura se enfrenta al territorio y dialoga con él ? “Entender el Territorio” es un encuentro digital entre especialistas de prácticas espaciales y estudiantes del seminario “Análisis de Proyectos e Intervenciones Urbanas” del Instituto Superior de Arquitectura y Diseño para compartir múltiples perspectivas de la aproximación a “el lugar” como uno de los puntos de partida en la práctica arquitectónica.

Un proyecto concebido y organizado por Evangelina Guerra Luján.

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28 & 30 de Septiembre Metodología Número 4 La Ciudad como Escenario AAA: Arquitectura, Arte & Acción

PUBLISHING ACTS I-II-III IS A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTAL URBAN INVESTIGATIONS ON PUBLISHING AS A SPATIALIZING PRACTICE.

“The Publishing Acts I, a collective exploration about instant, collaborative and open-ended socio-political imaginaries about the city of Pula, resulted in a silk print publication - Pula Documents (2017). It was distributed by hand, a performative gesture by which not only a printed product was imparted but also the engagement with the topics it contains. The Publishing Acts II embodied a critical reflection on dominant processes, methods and frames for architectural knowledge production. By perceiving publishing as a processual device for multi-vocal negotiation - Šibenik Alternating Currents (2018) - was materialized as a print-on-demand matter and coproduced with dpr-barcelona. The Publishing Acts III settled in the urban context of Rijeka, only months before the opening of its official ECOC 2020 programme. Simultaneously a retrospective to come and a futurospective, the newspapers edition - Fiume Novare (2019) - acts as a symbolic circulation of concepts, in which all operate in a sphere of inseparable forms of “post-Rijeka-isms”.”

LECTURA 1: 

PARA PARTICIPACIÓN EN CLASE ( 17 DE AGOSTO 2020)

Artículo revista “Constelaciones”

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