The U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, titled Dimensions of Citizenship, is further taking shape: the curatorial team — announced just two weeks ago and comprised of Mimi Zeiger, Niall Atkinson, and Ann Lui — today revealed a line-up of the seven pavilion exhibitors:
Amanda Williams & Andres L. Hernandez Chicago, IL
PXSTL: Williams and Hernandez won the 2016 design-build competition. Image courtesy of Michael B. Thomas / Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
Design Earth Cambridge, MA
Pacific Aquarium. Oslo Architecture Triennale, After Belonging, 2016. Project Team: El Hadi Jazairy + Rania Ghosn. Reid Fellenbaum, Ya Suo, Jia Weng, Shuya Xu, Saswati Das, with initial contributions from Rixt Woudstra. Image courtesy of DESIGN EARTH
Diller Scofidio + Renfro New York, NY
The Shed, View from 30th Street looking northwest, Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group. Image courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group
Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman San Diego, CA
UCSD Cross-Border Community Station: A Public Space that Educates, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman. Image courtesy of Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman.
Living Breakwaters, Staten Island, NY, SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC. Image courtesy of SCAPE.
Studio Gang Chicago, IL
Rescue Company 2, Brooklyn, NY, anticipated 2018, Studio Gang. Image courtesy of Studio Gang.
"These seven teams represent the breadth of design practice today," the curators said in a statement, "from social to speculative; technical to theoretical. They are united by researched-based methodologies and the drive to use that research to push boundaries — formal, disciplinary, and political."
More participants, whose body of existing projects will be placed in dialogue with the contributions of the seven teams listed above, are expected to be announced at a later date.
Also announced was the appointment of architect Iker Gil as associate curator. Gil is Director of MAS Studio, founder of the design journal MAS Context, and faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago — one of the two institutions appointed by the U.S. State Department Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs as co-commissioners of the 2018 U.S. Pavilion, alongside the University of Chicago.
Curators from left to right: associate curator Iker Gil, and curators Mimi Zeiger, Niall Atkinson, and Ann Lui. Image by Nancy Wong.
The ten members of the recently created curatorial advisory board — architects, designers, and artists selected to support the curators and help turn Dimensions of Citizenship into a reality — are:
Bill Brown, Senior Advisor to the Provost for
Arts, Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture
in the Departments of English & Visual Arts, and the College,
UChicago
Theaster Gates, Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and the College, and Director of Arts + Public Life, UChicago
Sarah Herda, Director, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Mary Jane Jacob, Professor, Executive Director of Exhibitions and Exhibitions Studies, SAIC
Oliver Palmer, independent artist and designer
Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design, Art Institute of Chicago
Jonathan Solomon, Director, Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, SAIC
Jessica Stockholder, Chair of the Department of
Visual Arts and Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished
Service Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and the College,
UChicago
Amy Thomas, Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Urban Planning, TU Delft
Yesomi Umolu, Exhibitions Curator at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and Lecturer in the Humanities Division, UChicago
For the challenge of creating the exhibition, graphic, and web design for the U.S. Pavilion, the curators selected studio Project Projects.
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Let's hope DSR don't include in their proposal the demolition of the Scarpa, Aalto, Rietveld, and Sverre Fehn pavilions. #folkMoMA
Still hard to tell what's going on here. Clashing ideas, provocative propositions or, I hope not, safe bets? We shall see.
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