Working with the ruins in the contemporary condition

What type of knowledge is inscribed in abandoned and decayed sites? How can we engage anew with the visual and material remnants of another past which are still present in the urban and rural fabric? This event will bring together contemporary artists, architects and creative practitioners who work with and insert in their practice the visual and material remnants of modern ruination.

Speakers:

Driant Zeneli (artist, Albanian Pavilion 2019 Venice Biennale) - Beneath a surface there’s just another surface

Maria Kapajeva (artist) - Dream is wonderful, Yet unclear

Dominique Petit-Frère (Limbo Accra) - Operating from point Limbo

Miloš Kosec (Curator of Architecture, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, member of Nonument Group & Associate Research Fellow at School of Arts, Birkbeck) - Nonument Group: Interventions in contested sites

This online panel is part of the in-person two-day conference Ecologies of Decay: Modern Ruination in the (Post)socialist Global Peripheries (16-17 June 2022). A full programme of the conference is available here: (link)

The conference is organised by Dimitra Gkitsa (Alexander Nash Fellow, SSEES). It has been made possible through the generous support of UCL’s IAS Octagon Small Grants Fund and the FRINGE Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity (SSEES).

Image credit: Group Photo.2017”, Maria Kapajeva