SQUAREPOETRY (AND THE AGENCY OF MATTER)

Conducted by Sabine Popp

Activity

This course is aimed at researchers from all areas and spaces (artists, architects, urban planners, anthropologists, sociologists, ...).

Activity open and free to everyone with pre-registration at hola@inter-accions.org

This workshop is part of the "EXTEMPORANEOUS CITIES" course on transversal research and contemporary cities, which takes place in various spaces of Barcelona on October 26, and 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 of November.

Extemporaneous, from Latin ex tempore (“out of time”), refers to the construction of public discourse, which by the conditions with which it is delivered, it requires certain improvisation. The theory is often implemented in contexts that require certain adaptability to be able to respond successfully to its needs. This course is a formative proposal that articulates theory, critical thinking, and practice in a program based on collaborative and transdisciplinary practices. It is aimed at people from different fields of work and study (arts, architecture, urbanism, sociology, anthropology, education, etc.) interested in the possibilities that contemporary arts offer when it comes to providing new ways of seeing, tools, and approaches for research in inter-academic spaces.

Sabine Popp proposes us in this session how the concept of the frame is applied in art and science alike to achieve understanding and to intensify the experience of what is inside (and outside) of it. It helps to put things in systems that make them comparable. The square is applied in a biological fieldwork by randomly throwing it on an area to count its content. Confusion would be without a frame. A limitless space is impossible to count. To count means to give an account. Without frames narratives would meander endlessly. As they do in life. The session will apply frames in an attempt to grasp something of the complexity of the banal and chaotic systems of the immediate surroundings.

Links

http://www.inter-accions.org/2017-extemporaneous-cities/

http://www.inter-accions.org/es/2017-extemporaneous-cities/

http://www.inter-accions.org/en/2017-extemporaneous-cities/