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March 25, 2020<March 26, 2020

From Water to Home: Permeability as Social Inclusion (and Exclusion) in Contemporary London

by Anna Viola Sborgi

Anna Viola Sborgi considers how recent documentary films reconfigure porosity as permeability, and reflects on questions of social inclusion in the city under lockdown.

March 20, 2020<March 20, 2020

No Exit, or Duration in Slow Cinema: Aesthetics of Femininity, Porosity, Security

by Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf

Erin Schlumpf thinks through the spatial politics of slow cinema and orders to shelter in place.

March 16, 2020<March 16, 2020

Screens in Public Space: Questions of Aesthetics and Access in a Moment of Social Distancing

by Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell’Aria discusses screen media’s potential to make both public space and private space—during times of social distancing—more porous.

March 11, 2020<March 11, 2020

Activist Media and Distributional Aesthetics in the City

by Carrie Rentschler

Carrie Rentschler explores urban porosity via a feminist infrastructural focus on key points of transfer and transit in the city that activists target for change using a range of aesthetic and political strategies

March 8, 2020<March 8, 2020

Urban Pores as Media: Questions of Aesthetics and Access

by Sabine Haenni

Sabine Haenni's introduction to the second round explores pores as media, biology, and as form.

March 6, 2020<March 6, 2020

Assembling the Cosmopublic: Art Intelligence and Object-Oriented Citizenship

by Hai Ren

Hai Ren rethinks the creative city away from its anthropocentricism and toward a nonhuman art intelligence

March 4, 2020<March 4, 2020

Fragmented Memory: Unearthing Film History in Kabul, Afghanistan

by Ariel Nasr

Filmmaker Ariel Nasr explains the premises and production history of The Forbidden Reel, a documentary about the Afghan film archive reflecting the social-political structures of Afghanistan and its capital Kabul.

March 1, 2020<March 1, 2020

Re-functioning “Tropical Architecture”: Anti-colonial Constructions in Chinese-built Architecture in Africa, 1960s-70s

by Ye Liu

The China-Africa engagement has been a heated topic of debate for the past decade, not only in academia, but also with the general public. …

February 28, 2020<March 1, 2020

Urban Art as Visual Noise in Bogotá

by Caitlin Bruce

Caitlin Bruce reports on urban art and social movements in Bogotá.

February 27, 2020<February 27, 2020

Feminist Protocols: Auditing Urban Infrastructures and Reporting Gender Violence in the City

by Carrie Rentschler

Carrie Rentschler on feminist and anti-racist practices in the porous urban spaces and surfaces of chalking, graffiti, and postering

February 27, 2020<October 13, 2021

Apparitions and Wormholes: Moving Image Artworks and Urban Porosity

by Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell'Aria shows how illuminations and projections move through the fluid, living skin of the built environment, parting the boundaries between public and private space

February 25, 2020<February 25, 2020

Liu Jiayin’s spatial politics of reduction

by Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf

Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf discusses Liu Jiayin's documentary interiors in connection to Beijing's porous, globalized space