Following on the first international Conference of the ΑΑΟ project: Ethics / Aesthetics, held at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the six Academic Workshops currently under way and Athens Here and Now with interactive works in downtown Athens, the ΑΑΟ project organizes a second international Conference at the Benaki Museum, Pireos St Annex.
The first conference explored ethics and aesthetics as a broader platform in terms of its theoretical foundation and the spatial translations of this relationship in the new spatial and curatorial practices, in artworks and in architectural, urban and topological applications.
The second Conference, held on June 6 & 7, 2011 at the amphitheater of the Benaki Museum, Pireos St Annex, presents the projects of the participants in the main exhibition, the inventive strategies they adopted and their works’ media and objectives in an attempt to assess today’s pressing social and ecological needs and the ways they are addressed.
Conference timetable:
Monday, 6 June 2011
16:30 Enrolment
17:00 Official opening of conference
Inaugural addresses
17:20 Lina Stergiou
17:30 Cameron Sinclair/Architecture for Humanity
18:00 John Peterson/Public Architecture
18:30 Santiago Cirugeda/Recetas Urbanas
19:00 Annie Platanioti/Alexandros Tombazis Architects
Discussion
20: 30 Official opening of exhibition
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
16:30 Enrolment
17:00 Mauricio Corbalan and Teddy Cruz
17:30 Ross Evans/Worldbike
18: 00 Matt Passmore and Teresa Aguilera/Rebar
18:30 Corinne Matesich/Futurefarmers
19:00 Eelko Moorer
19:30 Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans/Jodi
Discussion
Reception
Moderator: Lina Stergiou, Concept – Curator at large AAO project
The AΑO project provides no certainties. On the contrary, its principles call upon us to a collective engagement so as to contribute to the resolution of our crucial, challenging problems and urge us to go from idle contemplation to thinking through synergy. All actions are based on a model of expanded collaboration within a network of professionals, public and private bodies, educational institutions and museums.
2nd Conference
June 6 & June 7, 2011, at 16:30
Amphitheater, Benaki Museum, Pireos St Annex
Pireos 138 & Andronikou St
tel: 210 3453111
See the videos of the talks in the second international Conference here
See photos of second international Conference here