Ringvorlesung Architectural Research 2019

Vortragsreihe

Kristen Kreider & James O’Leary 
KITES, CLOUDS, FILTH & ORDER: Conditions of a Situated Practice
Goldsmiths College, London (Kreider) & The Bartlett School of Architecture, London (O’Leary)

Kristen Kreider is Professor of Fine Art and Director of the PhD Programme at Goldsmiths College, London. James O’Leary is Associate Professor and Director of the MA Situated Practice programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London. Kreider + O’Leary are a poet and an architect who collaborate to make work in relation to sites of architectural and cultural interest such as prisons, military sites, film locations, landscape gardens, protest sites and desert environments. Combining visual, spatial and poetic practices, they develop performance, installation and video work and instigate architectural interventions directly on-site. Their work has been exhibited widely, including at the Tate, the Royal Academy and The Whitechapel in London as well as in gallery venues and sites across the UK, USA, Europe, Australia, South America and Japan. Kreider is the author of Poetics & Place: The Architecture of Sign, Subjects and Site (I.B. Taurus, 2014). Kreider + O’Leary have co-authored two books: Falling (Copy Press, 2015) and Field Poetics (Ma Bibliothèque, 2018). Their current research focuses on two sites of resistance from their upcoming ‘Ungovernable Spaces’ series. The first is the route of Gandhi’s infamous Salt March in Gujarat, India. The second is a cluster of contested spaces around the so-called ‘peacewalls’ of Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: http://www.kreider-oleary.net