Architecture against strategies?

Demolition of the Island Block, October 2006.
Photo c. Alexei Monroe

On December 1^st I'll be taking part in an event in Maribor entitled A conversation about the formation of national iconographies and their framing. This is a closing event for a complex and challenging exhibition by the artist Jasmina Cibic.

My talk, Unacceptable Faces of Monumentalism?, is an interpretation of competing utopian and dystopian tendencies in London architecture, culture and politics. It's an experimental approach to analysing architecture, a subject I'm increasingly interested in. It's also a conceptual sequel to my Tate Modern presentation in April.

Here's a sonic cue, Shockwork by Test Dept...

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Doctor Who and the Death Factory at Noise=Noise, June 8th.

Montage by Vera Bremerton. Next Friday I'll give an experimental presentation at Noise=Noise on the strange parallels between the sonic and conceptual dystopianism of Doctor Who and first generation British industrial music. Dr. Who exposed mass audiences (often very young) to a combination of experimental electronic sound and dystopian themes, a combination that could also summarise industrial music. Dr. Who frequently presented post-apocalyptic scenarios of mutation, mind control and para-militarised societies and, in the process, at least implicitly criticised actual political and technological developments of the time, particularly those associated with the Cold War arms race. Due to budgetary constraints these visionary scenarios were often realised in a rudimentary ad hoc fashion; an approach that also applies to industrial. The early industrial groups highlighted the most serious social and political themes using very primitive electronic equipment, creating a kind of...

Interrogation Machine Update and Features

The book will be available from end September in North America and in Europe during November. Check here for further updates. Latest features: Morgenbladet, Norway: http://www.morgenbladet.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050819/OKULTUR/108190036&template=printart Novopress, Romania: http://ro.novopress.info/?p=354

Talk at Ausstellung Laibach Kunst, Łódź, 23rd June

I will be giving a talk on ‘Laibach Kunst and the Art of Total Non-Alignment’at the exhibition on June 23 rd at 6pm. Codex Europa and Wiktor Skok will DJ in an industrial vein afterwards. This Polish site has a short film which has a clip from the opening performance , similar to the one given at I.C.R.N.’s RoTr event in 2006. Read more here about this major exhibition, which presents the most comprehensive overview of Laibach Kunst works yet staged.

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