May 20, 2023, 9:30am
Serra dei Giardini, Venice
Book Talk and Reception
Hosted by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Please join us to mark the release of
Sketches on Everlasting Plastics, an editorial intervention and ongoing collaboration with the curators of the US Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2023 Venice Biennale. The event takes place on the occasion of the opening of the United States Pavilion’s exhibition
Everlasting Plastics organized by SPACES, a nonprofit alternative art organization based in Cleveland, OH.
CBAC editors—Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, Joanna Joseph, and assistant editor Meriam Soltan—will be joined by the 2023 US Pavilion Co-Curators Tizziana Baldenebro and Lauren Leving, and Assistant Curator Paula Volpato; graphic designers Lucas Reif and Renata Graw of Normal Studio; contributor Stephanie Ginese; Associate Curator Theodossis Issaias and Curatorial Fellow Ala Tannir of the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art; and Rania Ghosn of Design Earth.
As the title implies,
Sketches stages an interaction: between institutions, between disciplines, between editorial and curatorial practice, between book and exhibition. The project leans into sketching as a methodology for broadening, revising, pushing the discourse
on and around the exhibition
Everlasting Plastics and our engagement with plastic matter and thought—refusing the exhibition as a static event and rather seeing it as an invitation to evolve the stakes of a shared conversation. In doing so, it also begins to form a working epistemology of plastic.
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