QSPACE is a queer architecture research and design studio that defines itself as mixing queer theory, social justice, and design practice. He has written, edited, and contributed to books on contemporary Dutch architects and architecture, contributed to Dutch television documentaries, been member of juries and awards, and lectured internationally. He published first and foremost in Archis and Volume, but also in other magazines like l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Baumeister, Rassegna, and Manifesto. As an educator, he taught architectural history and later on specialized in research and writing at schools of architecture. For Volume’s publisher Archis, he is engaged in book publications and projects, the current one being Trust in the Blockchain Society. With a background in architectural history he is editor-in-chief of Volume magazine (since 2007). In 1995, Van Lieshout founded his studio, Atelier Van Lieshout ever since, he has been working under the studio moniker to undermine the myth of the artistic genius.Īrjen Oosterman is a critic, educator and curator. In his projects, Van Lieshout focuses on systems, power, autarky, life, sex and death – the human individual in the face of the greater whole. His work is not limited to sculptures and installations, but also comprises buildings and furniture, as well as utopian and dystopian visions. Joep van Lieshout is a sculptor and visionary known for exploring the boundaries of art, of ethics, of society. Participants will reimagine the icons of the city, and will present manifestos for new “souvenirs for an ideal city” in an effort to explore the concept of iconography and what icons mean for the city today. The event invites an international group of architects, designers, photographers, curators, and researchers to reflect upon the objects and imaginaries that define the global city. Manifesto Series: Souvenirs for an Ideal City is organized as part of Storefront’s current exhi bition, Souvenirs: New New York Icons. They have become the reference points that anchor a particular culture in time, representing (consciously or not) political, cultural, and social values. Souvenirs produce collective imaginaries made up of lines that follow the profiles of superlative sculptures, buildings, and stories. Pocket-sized, acritical, and cheap, they populate tourist sites all over the world with a patina of innocence. #storefrontseries #manifestoseries #souvenirs Joep van Lieshout, Arjen Oosterman, QSPACE, and Marga Weimans.Īs a contemporary form of commercialized nostalgia, souvenirs are the ultimate cliche in the representation of a city. Their work investigates “the architecture of architecture” - the forces and structures that work to circumscribe the possibilities of architectural thought and practice - with the goal of redesigning it.Manifesto Series: Souvenirs for an Ideal City Other venues include Abrons Art Center, the Jewish Museum, and SculptureCenter in New York, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, CPH:DOX* in Copenhagen, and Le Doc in Paris. She has been the recipient of the Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University, a Community Engagement Grant from the Rema Hort Man Foundation, a Van Lier Fellowship from the Museum of Arts & Design, and The Mary Hotchkiss Williams Travel Fellowship from the Yale University Art Gallery. She received an MFA from Columbia University in 2016, and a BA in Art from Yale University in 2013.Īdjustments Agency is a studio founded in 2016 by Joanna Kloppenburg and Nicholas Korody.

Ilana Harris-Babou’s work is interdisciplinary, spanning sculpture and installation, but grounded in video. She has exhibited throughout the US and Europe, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Arts & Design and Larrie in New York.

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