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CRITICAL READING GROUP
Critical Reading Group
Gendered Space - Part Two, with Joanne Bristol
Saturdays May 8, 22 and June 5, 2010, 2 - 4 pm at MAWA
$20 (includes photocopies materials); open to all
If you missed Part One, no worries! Please join in for Part Two! Continuing on from MAWA’s Critical Reading Group held in the fall of 2009, this reading group will explore relationships between spatial culture and gender.
Joanne Bristol will begin the discussion by asking participants to read selected texts (TBA) for the first meeting. From that starting point, the group will decide collectively which paths to follow. Possible directions include speculating about the ways in which material, symbolic, social and political spatial practices relate to our lives and our creative work. Readings will consist of photocopied texts from a range of disciplinary perspectives, sourced from the following anthologies:
Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway and Leslie Kanes Weisman (eds). The Sex of Architecture. New York: Abrams, 1996.
Gregory Caicco, ed. Architecture, Ethics and the Personhood of Place. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2007.
Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner and Iain Borden (eds). Gender, Space, Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. London: Routledge, 1999.
Joanne Bristol is an artist and writer who has presented installations, performances and single-channel videos across North America for the past fifteen years. Current projects include bentaerial.net, a work for the web about technology, obsolescence and invention, and the Institute for Feline & Human Interaction (IFHI), a matrix for ongoing projects in inter-species communication and cohabitation. In 2010, she will begin a practice-based PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Her proposed thesis, titled “Performance Spaces for Domestic Animals”, combines research in spatial culture with the emergent field of animal studies.
To register contact Tracy Marshall at 949-9490 or programs@mawa.ca. Please put CRG in the subject line. Registration deadline: April 29, 2010
Joanne Bristol, performance still from Association for Imaginary Architecture, 2009
