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---------------------------------------------Curating Architecture: A Workshop with Professor Barry Bergdoll Workshop Adelaide, AUS assistant organiser
---------------------------------------------3 Minute Thesis Competition University of Adelaide faculty winner and university finalist
---------------------------------------------Protest Photography Athens, Melbourne, Adelaide case-study research photographer
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---------------------------------------------FADlab competition “Setting the Stages” Architecture proposal competition entry
---------------------------------------------Architectural Photography Paris and Athens case-study research photographer
---------------------------------------------Masters of Architecure University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUS (2012) Nordic Offshore Studio JPE top ten exhibition Research Seminar - HD graduate
---------------------------------------------Ideology Is Never Ahistorical Poster magazine composition and distribution researcher
---------------------------------------------Open Agenda 2014 University of Technology Sydney Architectural theory proposal competition entry
---------------------------------------------European Centres Network Conference University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ, 2015 presenter
---------------------------------------------Bachelor of Design Studies University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUS (2009) Penang Offshore Studio graduate
---------------------------------------------3rd Year Urban Design Environments III (architecture) co-ordinated by Dr. Julian Worrall university tutor
---------------------------------------------2nd Year History & Theory History Theory II (architecture) co-ordinated by Dr. Katharine Bartsch university tutor Contributor
---------------------------------------------Adelaide Parking Day “Park Your Story” Installation urban intervention
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---------------------------------------------PhD Candidate School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide “Annotative Architectures: Politics, Space and the Event in Crisis-Athens”
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---------------------------------------------Spatial Studies Symposium University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUS, 2015 Conference presenter
---------------------------------------------Badiou 2014 Masterclass MSCP (University of Melbourne) Philosophy Masterclass selected attendee
---------------------------------------------Format Festival Poster competiton Adelaide, AUS, 2014 winner Art History Club Visual Identity graphic designer Contributor
---------------------------------------------Ian Strange Intervention “Eviction Notice” 2014 Adelaide Art Biennale urban intervention
---------------------------------------------Historical Materialism Conference University of London, London, UK, 2014 Conference presenter
---------------------------------------------Tectvs Graduate Architect www.tectvs.com.au 2014 - present in-house graphic designer
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---------------------------------------------Analogue Witness Online publication portal and discussion space www.analoguewitness.com Editor-in-chief
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---------------------------------------------Greek Election Reporter Green Left Weekly Athens Journalism live-blog and mutliple original articles
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---------------------------------------------Interdisciplinary Waste Conference University of South Australia Adelaide, AUS, 2014 presenter
---------------------------------------------CAMEA (Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture) Visual identity and graphic branding graphic designer
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---------------------------------------------Candide Conference (Journal of Architectural Knowledge) Conference Aachen, GER, 2015 presenter
Theorist + Practitioner + Teacher + Contributor __________________ ____ Athanasios Lazarou
[email protected]
+ all things architecture
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Theorist, Practioner, Teacher and Contributor of all things architecture
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Athanasios Lazarou (Nasi)
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What is architecture?
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“Architecture is a way of thinking, it requires an understanding of how processes affect spatial outcomes.”
____ “I’m a Prize-fighter with my Brain”
Athanasios Lazarou
Athanasios (Nasi) Lazarou is currently studying a PhD at the University of Adelaide on the intersection between architectural space and politics during the Greek-crisis. He has spoken at numerous international conferences and is a theorist, practitioner, teacher and contributor of all things architecture.
Speak To Me
---------------------------------------------What’s the first thing you check when you wake up in the morning? Twitter. *sighs
When he’s not dying his hair grey he loves to listen to 90’s Bowie.
Contact Details
---------------------------------------------athanasioslazarou@me.com @athanasioslazarou @_athanasios
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Qualifications
---------------------------------------------Graduate Architect 2014 - present Tectvs
Tutor 2014 - present School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide PhD Candidate 2013 - present School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide
“Architecture in a Time of Crisis: Annotatons of Politics, Space and the Event in Athens”
__________________ Masters of Architecture (2012) & Bachelor of Design Studies (2009) University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUS
How do you professionaly define yourself? I’m what you would call an ideas man. I’m good at organising teams to execute a singular vision. I love tackling new projects, they really stimulate me creatively. I like to think of stress and critique as positive for successful outcomes. I also sleep less than most which helps me in my outputs. twitter is probably to blame for that too Who are your favourite collaborators? I do like the Tectvs family, but my favourite is (architectural theorist) Sam Spurr; she’s always the best mind in the room to discuss all things interesting and fun. Favourite musician now Swedish micro-sample ace Alex Willner (The Field) minimal techno-maestro Favourite coffee spot Exchange at Ebeneeer place, say hi to Tom, he’s great. What’s your next project that’s got you excited? It has to be the PhD (on the architectural turns of the Greek-crisis), it’s so omnipresent a phenomenon that it’s a hard story not to write.
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---------------------------------------------PhD Candidate School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide “Annotative Architectures: Politics, Space and the Event in Crisis-Athens”
---------------------------------------------3 Minute Thesis Competition University of Adelaide faculty winner and university finalist
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---------------------------------------------Badiou 2014 Masterclass MSCP (University of Melbourne) Philosophy Masterclass selected attendee
---------------------------------------------Historical Materialism Conference University of London, London, UK, 2014 Conference presenter
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---------------------------------------------Protest Photography Athens, Melbourne, Adelaide case-study research photographer
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---------------------------------------------Open Agenda 2014 University of Technology Sydney Architectural theory proposal competition entry Theorist
---------------------------------------------European Centres Network Conference University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ, 2015 presenter
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“My favourite theoretical space is between the client states of the looped gaze; experiencing the present as an anticipated history.”
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---------------------------------------------Analogue Witness Online publication portal and discussion space www.analoguewitness.com Editor-in-chief
---------------------------------------------Spatial Studies Symposium University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUS, 2015 Conference presenter
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Candide Coference, Aachen, GER, 2015
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“Temporal Capabilities of Protest space and the Architectural Object in Crisis-stricken Athens” Abstract
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---------------------------------------------Ideology Is Never Ahistorical Poster magazine composition and distribution researcher
---------------------------------------------Candide Conference (Journal of Architectural Knowledge) Conference Aachen, GER, 2015 presenter
In times of protest, protest becomes a command of time. Protest movements are understood to centre on the public square – where people and architecture become linked by their contextual dependency. In Athens, Greece, the site of the Eurozone crisis holds a perceived location at the base of Parliament in Syntagma Square. In examining the site as a position in constant mutability this paper presents an unfolding spatial history of Athens that seeks to explore ways to represent the hybrid nature of the contemporary public square as a set of positions dependent on the mastery of time. In other words, protest can be viewed as a manipulation of temporality by specific formations of material bodies (protestors) occupying specific formations of space (architectural objects). The public square is not the material embodiment of the anti-austerity movement’s ideals; rather, the embodiment of the movement’s ideals is the conquest of space by commanding time.
Historical Materliasm Conference, London, UK, 2014
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“How Capitalism Survives” Event: The Architectural Production of Space as Concrete Abstraction The case of Athens during the Eurozone Crisis Abstract At the height of the Eurozone crisis in 2011, protestors scaled the Acropolis to place a banner against the Greek government’s austerity policies. The demonstration highlighted the visible role of architecture in facilitating events during the ongoing political crisis. The event was presented in full view of the rooftop café of Greece’s most prominent Eurozone project: Bernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum. This paper documents the dialogue between these monumental architectural objects as products of the inherent contradictions of capitalism expressed during a crisis, where changes in spatial syntax through temporary or semi-permanent interventions conceive themselves under the conditions of event.
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PhD: Architecture in a Time of Crisis
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“Architecture in a Time of Crisis: Annotatons of Politics, Space and the Event in Athens”
---------------------------------------------The PhD is an examination of the Greek crisis from the discipline of Architecture. It is set to conclude in late 2016.
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What has been discovered about the spatial practices in Athens during the crisis?
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“Territorial claims align themselves politically; the things that are revealed are confessional.”
PhD Candidate ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide “Architecture in a Time of Crisis: Annotatons of Politics, Space and the Event in Athens” Abstract There is no time like the present crisis. The PhD is formed as an inquiry into the present conditions, possibilities and limits of politics and space. At its subject lies the Greek crisis and the complex relations present at the perceived site of the crisis; Syntagma Square, Athens. This socio-political realism is engaged in a series of exercises that collect and classify the numerous spatial actions and political stages of the demonstrations, before expanding to assess the role of periphery protest movements throughout the city. The project encompasses a discussion on how abstract political movements represent themselves within the context of architectural vocabulary. It interrogates the relationships present within the public square – where people and architecture become linked by their contextual dependency – before critically reflecting on the visible role of architecture in facilitating events during the political crisis; in essence, the story of the architectural turns of the crisis. By understanding these turns the project distinctively expands on the type of knowledge that can be considered architectural. Within the materialism of the encounter, the research questions how contemporary architecture operates in spaces of global capital, probing what the architecture field offers in the context of crisis. These overlapping questions are approached strategically through a series of case studies situated within specific events of the protest movement ranging from the monumental to the particular - and utilising a A sample that is part of a broader toolset of definitely architectural techniques that expand upon analysis where collect and classify existing PEA (protest event analysis) models. In doing so, becomes explain and understand. what is revealed overlaps with theories and enquiries of the event that are of a philosophical nature, before engaging with more terminological slippages and philosophical exegesis to Protest Noun reveal how the detailed reading of spatial processes in a A statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to specific demonstration can become a model of thought. something. Specifically, the unfolding political crisis is being examined as Demonstration a spatial crisis. Noun
Notes from the field
a public meeting or march protesting against something or expressing views on a political issue.
A protest march is a type of protest or demonstration that generally involves a group of people walking from an assembly point to a predetermined destination, usually culminating in a political rally, and often evoking a military march or parade. In Athens, Protest movements nominally operate on two distinct modes of demonstration: power seeking and immanent critique. Athenian student politics is said to be one of the best training grounds in the world.
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PhD: Architecture in a Time of Crisis
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Time Time is ruptural. Social relationships deteriorate based on distance. The event is revealed in the negation of that distance. Demonstrations are an instrument of measure where time is spatialised transformed from a fixed objective state and brought into a system of representation.
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Researching Abstract Political Movements
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Protest Documentation
---------------------------------------------Part of multiple research projects, Athanasios has documented protest movements around the world.
November 17 protests in Athens, Greece (2013 & 2014)
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What are the challenges in documenting protest?
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“Photographing political movements is always a huge challenge, you have to capture the abstract subject amongst the concrete object.”
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Researching Abstract Political Movements
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“People become architecture, marshalled into patterns, organised in urban space in alignment with symbolic buildings.” March in May, Adelaide (2014)
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“Analogue Witness” is an online publishing project. It has been designed to be a portal for publishing long-form original content on culture, architecture, politics and critique.
Online Publication Space
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Ideology is Never Ahistorical
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Athanasios Lazarou (Nasi)
---------------------------------------------A poster-magazine that explores the possibilites of architectural knowledge in relation to the Greek-crisis.
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A competition submission for “Open Agenda”, an architectural theory proposal for UTS (University of Technology, Sydney).
Open Agenda proposal 2014
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---------------------------------------------Format Festival Poster competiton Adelaide, AUS, 2014 winner Art History Club Visual Identity graphic designer
---------------------------------------------Tectvs Graduate Architect www.tectvs.com.au 2014 - present in-house graphic designer
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---------------------------------------------FADlab competition “Setting the Stages” Architecture proposal competition entry
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---------------------------------------------Greek Election Reporter Green Left Weekly Athens Journalism live-blog and mutliple original articles
---------------------------------------------Architectural Photography Paris and Athens case-study research photographer
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---------------------------------------------Masters of Architecure University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUS (2012) Nordic Offshore Studio JPE top ten exhibition Research Seminar - HD graduate
---------------------------------------------Bachelor of Design Studies University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUS (2009) Penang Offshore Studio graduate 19
---------------------------------------------CAMEA (Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture) Visual identity and graphic branding graphic designer
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Bernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum, Athens. Completed in 2007, Photographed 2013-2015.
Photography: New Acropolis Museum
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New Acropolis
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Photography: New Acropolis Museum
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“Built as a series of stacked horizontal boxes located atop an existing research dig, the New Acropolis Museum is a mirror of the history of the Acropolis. As the visitor moves higher and higher through the building’s circulation pattern they simultaneously move through the various historical era’s of the Acropolis itself.”
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Photography: Centre Pompidou
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Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano’s Centre Pompidou is the architectural response to the event. Completed 1977, Photographer 2013-2014.
Centre Pompidou
“The Pompidou possesses shades of spectacular, neo-Marxist interpretations of space that seek to emphasise the role of the user as an agent rather than participant.”
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Photography: Centre Pompidou
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“We wanted to make a building that was clearly of our period, that caught the zeitgeist of the now …. the building is very much about the riots [of May 68].” Richard Roger’s on Pompidou
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Festival of Architecture and Design 2015
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FADlab competition entry
---------------------------------------------Proposal for an exhibition space for the Festival of Architcture and Design (FAD). The brief required a tight budget, a ramp for the Western entrance of the heritage-listed buidling and multiple event configurations. The proposal was ultimately unsuccessful, but produced a playful repsonse to the brief.
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Setting the Stages
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“The proposal seeks to deliver a festival space where site and object become social moment.”
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Festival of Architecture and Design 2015
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Journalism
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Greek Election Reporting + multiple original, long form articles and photography
---------------------------------------------Multiple original articles on the Greek poltical scene have been produced during the crisis.
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What has been most revealing when covering the Greek-crisis?
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“At all levels, the resilience of the Greek people has been fascinating. They keep fighting for a better future by both protestoing and voting.”
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Centre of Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA)
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Athanasios is both a member of CAMEA and responsible for its visual identity and graphic design. In 2016, CAMEA will celebrate it’s 20th anniversary.
CENTRE FOR ASIAN AND MIDDLE-EASTERN ARCHITECTURE
SABE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
EST. 1997
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“he provided in depth constructive feedback for every single student in the class in a timely manner.”
“was reasonable with expectations whilst pushing students to achieve better results”
---------------------------------------------3rd Year Urban Design Environments III (architecture) co-ordinated by Dr. Julian Worrall university tutor
---------------------------------------------2nd year History & Theory History Theory II (architecture) co-ordinated by Dr. Katharine Bartsch university tutor
“developed good relationships with ALL students, did not have favourites”
“he provided in depth constructive feedback for every single student in the class in a timely manner.”
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“provided very direct, clear, critical yet useful feedback. Very well organised”
“‘he puts in a lot of time and effort to get the best out of the students. He is a future course-co-ordinator"
“extreme dedication (including out of hours) to assist students. Provided excellent feedback, clarity, and pushed students to achieve better results”
University Tutor ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I love teaching. I really do. I’m super-critical as a teacher, but I firmly believe that hard work produces the most rigorous outcomes. For me, teaching isn’t about imparting knowledge, it’s about a contribution. I’m learnign just as much from them as they are from me. I may be the one at the front of the room, but it’s a mutual exchange. Side notes: I also tutor the annual Superstudio 24 hour design competition, and last year (2014) we were fortunate enough that one of the teams from UniSA went on to win the National prize. I also curate the School of Architecture and Built Environment’s twitter and instagram accounts, and CAMEA’s twitter and facebook accounts.
“always made time to see students when in need of extra help”
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---------------------------------------------Curating Architecture: A Workshop with Professor Barry Bergdoll Workshop Adelaide, AUS assistant organiser
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---------------------------------------------Adelaide Parking Day “Park Your Story” Installation urban intervention
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---------------------------------------------Ian Strange Intervention “Eviction Notice” 2014 Adelaide Art Biennale urban intervention
Contributor ---------------------------------------------Interdisciplinary Waste Conference University of South Australia Adelaide, AUS, 2014 presenter
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Curating Architecture Workshop
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Curating Architecture with Professor Barry Bergdoll
---------------------------------------------N Director and architectural theorist Sam Spurr organized the two-day workshop titled Curating Architecture with Barry Bargdoll, which discussed the role of the curator in modern practice
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Art Gallery of South Australia, Adealide
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“The hardest thing to know is what audiences [already] know.”
“We’re not talking about something that is going to happen, we’re talking about something that is happening.”
Barry Bergdoll on Climate Change
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Curating Architecture Workshop
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“The big challenge is how to conceive an exhibition that can be experienced or appreciated at various different levels of entry; if you don’t read everything or you don’t cover every floor you still leave with something, you’re still enriched or engaged in some way … it’s about making possible many things to happen.” Barry Bergdoll
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Top: Format Festival 2014 winning poster (theme: bees) Bottom: Art History Club Visual Identity and logo, applications have included banners, stickers, tote bags - the range is increasing.
Graphic Design
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Adelaide Parking Day
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Park Your Story
---------------------------------------------An annual event which temporarily transforms on-street car parks into creative spaces. “Park Your Story” was a collaborative piece that involved passer-by’s typing one page stories to form a literary output.
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What did the installation involve?
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“Two timber plinths were centred around a steel frame. One had a typewriter where you would type your story, the other would hold the collation of stories.”
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Adelaide Art Biennial
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Ian Strange Intervention
---------------------------------------------“Eviction Notice” is an example of an urban itnervention, changing the meaing of an urban practice by place-hacking its program.
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Why an eviction notice?
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“Ian Strange’s piece “Landed” lacked a social context. Constructing a house - whilst homeless people occupy North Tce - felt wrong.”
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Adelaide Art Biennial
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