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Dear All, Please find info below about an exciting event that I am organizing at Queen Mary University of London in June. The event will combine geography, performance, architecture and arts in order to explore alternative approaches for urban research. Would be great to see you there! All the best, Cecilie | Cecilie Sachs Olsen | PhD Researcher | | Queen Mary University of London | School of Geography | Mile End Road | London | | Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | | Tel: + 44 (0) 7462934497 | [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cc95682cd0eddcfc18280ab76/images/e54fc034-8b81-42e0-9394-1c068789541a.jpg] Symposium Performing Urban Archives Wednesday 10 June 2015 10.00 - 18.00 Queen Mary University of London, Arts Two, Film&Drama Studio, Mile End Road, E14NS London (map<http://zurbs.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cc95682cd0eddcfc18280ab76&id=c906569c57&e=88da6f6025>) Free, booking required, lunch included “A description of Zaira as it is today should contain all Zaira’s past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.”(Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities) Performing Urban Archives will explore how seeing the city as an archive can open up for alternative urban imaginaries that investigate what urban space is and means. Traces of use attesting to our presence and absence (graffiti, footprints, handrails rubbed naked of paint, stains, dropped groceries) are perpetually erased in the current urban realm due to a desire for perfect materiality sustained by new, shiny and glossy commodities. As a result, we cannot associate ourselves with practices of preceding users and are sensually alienated from urban space. Hence there is a need for a field of enquiry that involves a renewed sensitivity to the material fabric of the present and attention to those traces that signal our presence. How can seeing the city-as-archive provide a helpful methodological approach in this regard? * Keynote dialogue between artist Richard Wentworth and Michael Sheringham (Oxford) * Performance lecture by Johanna Linsley (Roehampton), with Emma Bennett (QMUL) * Urban exploration by international artist collective zURBS * Panel discussion with Katie Beswick (QMUL), Joseph Kohlmaier (London MET) and Harriet Hawkins (Royal Holloway) * Chairs: David Pinder and Jen Harvie (QMUL) * Organized by: Cecilie Sachs Olsen (QMUL) For booking for the full event, please book for BOTH events below: 1. Keynote dialogue<http://zurbs.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cc95682cd0eddcfc18280ab76&id=3a52680995&e=88da6f6025> 2. Performance lecture, urban expedition & panel discussion<http://zurbs.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cc95682cd0eddcfc18280ab76&id=0efe297501&e=88da6f6025> For more information and full programme, please follow this link<http://zurbs.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cc95682cd0eddcfc18280ab76&id=af12ba6c1e&e=88da6f6025>. Copyright © 2015 zURBS, All rights reserved. You are trying out MailChimp! Contact information: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> This email was sent to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> why did I get this?<http://zurbs.us10.list-manage.com/about?u=cc95682cd0eddcfc18280ab76&id=b04fdeef0e&e=88da6f6025&c=b46c9a6294> unsubscribe from this list<http://zurbs.us10.list-manage2.com/unsubscribe?u=cc95682cd0eddcfc18280ab76&id=b04fdeef0e&e=88da6f6025&c=b46c9a6294> update subscription preferences<http://zurbs.us10.list-manage2.com/profile?u=cc95682cd0eddcfc18280ab76&id=b04fdeef0e&e=88da6f6025> zURBS · 60d Lower Clapton Road · London, Lnd E5 0RN · United Kingdom [Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=monkey_rewards&aid=cc95682cd0eddcfc18280ab76&afl=1>