Becoming-Porous: Feminist Practices of Urban Curating
Vortrag
Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²)
Aug 24 - Sep 1 2024, Nordwestbahnstraße 16, 1200 Wien
9 days of architectural workshops in Vienna: the Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²) is an independent learning space for students, graduates and drop-outs in architecture or any other related discipline. Away from established hierarchies of universitary structures, we aim for exchange and negotiation of knowledges beyond dominating institutions and mainstream discourses.
Sunday, August 25th // 7:30 PM
Becoming-Porous: Feminist Practices of Urban Curating
A lecture by: Elke Krasny
This lecture introduces urban curating, which first emerged at the turn of the century and was used by urban planners and architects to envision alternatives to master-planning. Independent spatial and curatorial practices, in particular decolonial, feminist, and queer practitioners, developed substantial critiques of the master plan as well as of museum curation as master’s tool, as they are implicated in the colonial and patriarchal violence of the production of urban condition. Focusing on urban curating dedicated to care, repair, refusal, and resistance as well as feminist infrastructural critique, the lecture elaborates the idea of becoming porous. Porosity is a concept developed in parallel by urban theorists, political theorists of public space and critical queer phenomenologists. In feminist practices of urban curating, the imaginaries and realities of becoming-porous highlight the complex and conflicting inter-dependencies and inter-vulnerabilities of bodies, sites, the elements, and the planet as a whole.
Elke Krasny, PhD, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Most recent publications include: Living with an Infected Planet. Covid-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care (2023); Porös-Werden: Geteilte Räume, urbane Dramaturgien, performatives Kuratieren, edited together with Barbara Büscher and Lucie Ortmann (2024); Feminist Infrastructural Critique. Life-Affirming Practices Against Capital, edited together with Sophie Lingg and Claudia Lomoschitz.