The Lisbon Architecture Triennale was established in 2007 and is aimed at exploring, fostering and promoting reflection and practice in architecture. The third edition of the event, entitled Close, Closer, is intended to take a look at contemporary spatial practice; to make architecture a living, social and artistic force that cuts across the aesthetic, political and cultural spheres.
The Spanish group of artists Zuloark is taking part in the events organised around the exhibition The Real and Other Fictions with The Universal Declaration of Urban Rights in which a committee of architects, lawyers, politicians and societies analyse Lisbon’s specific public spaces.
The public programme New Publics consists of three months of talks, workshops, events and artistic actions in several public squares in the city and is aimed at facilitating the pooling of ideas about contemporary spatial practice and encouraging effective strategies for promoting structural changes in society. Spanish artists participating in this programme are: Andrés Jaque Arquitectos / Office for Political Innovation with a play; Daniel Fernández Pascual with The Housing Act, a project consisting of a course for the school of architecture; Estudio SIC, which is staging a large-scale artistic action; and Fernando García-Dory with a dramatised reading that explores the relationship between city and countryside.
An associated project that is one of the Triennale fringe events is Performing Architecture. Curated by Ariadna Cantis from Spain, it analyses how art and architecture do not exist until they have either a spectator who visualises them (in the case of art) or an inhabitant (in the case of architecture). The following Spanish artists are taking part:
• Luis Urculo in Let the Things Go Down to Go Up to Go Down to Go Up: group or individual actions decide to demolish an existing structure in order to rebuild a different one to be demolished and transformed again by the following participants.
• Pedro Bandeira with Coluna dórica, a tribute to Greek culture. In this performance a Doric column is transported through the city.
• PKMV with Superhatch, a real-life-scale reinterpretation of digital tools in analogue: Cad Hatch Patterns. The Hatch Patterns are applied in real size to public places in Lisbon.
The Spanish group of artists Zuloark is taking part in the events organised around the exhibition The Real and Other Fictions with The Universal Declaration of Urban Rights in which a committee of architects, lawyers, politicians and societies analyse Lisbon’s specific public spaces.
The public programme New Publics consists of three months of talks, workshops, events and artistic actions in several public squares in the city and is aimed at facilitating the pooling of ideas about contemporary spatial practice and encouraging effective strategies for promoting structural changes in society. Spanish artists participating in this programme are: Andrés Jaque Arquitectos / Office for Political Innovation with a play; Daniel Fernández Pascual with The Housing Act, a project consisting of a course for the school of architecture; Estudio SIC, which is staging a large-scale artistic action; and Fernando García-Dory with a dramatised reading that explores the relationship between city and countryside.
An associated project that is one of the Triennale fringe events is Performing Architecture. Curated by Ariadna Cantis from Spain, it analyses how art and architecture do not exist until they have either a spectator who visualises them (in the case of art) or an inhabitant (in the case of architecture). The following Spanish artists are taking part:
• Luis Urculo in Let the Things Go Down to Go Up to Go Down to Go Up: group or individual actions decide to demolish an existing structure in order to rebuild a different one to be demolished and transformed again by the following participants.
• Pedro Bandeira with Coluna dórica, a tribute to Greek culture. In this performance a Doric column is transported through the city.
• PKMV with Superhatch, a real-life-scale reinterpretation of digital tools in analogue: Cad Hatch Patterns. The Hatch Patterns are applied in real size to public places in Lisbon.
