Lecture by Armina Pilav: Black-out: war, darkness and the city

Armina Pilav
Jul 7th 2018. - Jul 7th 2018.
SHE bio bistro, 1. floor, Zlarinski prolaz 2, Šibenik (starting point for the walk will be determined after the lecture)
7 pm
Lecture

10 pm
Night city walk: Darkening Šibenik

Curator: Sonja Leboš

Black-out: war, darkness and the city

Destruction. Darkening the space. Invisible body. Underground space. Fear. Representation. Power. Materials. Absence of artificial light. Collective practices. This talk will explore designed or accidental events of the black-out in cities, time-space experiential artefacts and other materials of the transitional spaces of darkness created in the wartime in Sarajevo between 1992-1996. The attempt is to create an episodic narrative looking at the condition of darkness, different scales of darkening processes in the city, citizens’ defence and other night-time collective practices in between the dark and light.

Darkening Šibenik

Darkening Šibenik is night-time walking conversation with the citizens and visitors of the Iluminovizija about the spatial condition of the city in between the dark and light. It reflects on technological momentum of introduction of the artificial light in the city in 19th century and contemporary politics of lighting or darkening urban spaces of Šibenik.

 

About author

Armina Pilav research and practice is looking at the un-war spaces, transitional architectures, ecologies of transformations of the city and society in the condition of spatial destruction. Currently is Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow and teacher at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture at the Chair of Methods and Analysis. She is co-tutoring a non-academic and itinerary (un)learning program I-TEAM, organized by Relais Culture Europe (Paris). Armina is a member of the Association for Culture and Art Crvena from Sarajevo. She relies on the processes of collective creation of the knowledge in academic and non-academic (un)learning environments employing visual media and architectonic materials, feminist working approach, cross-media pedagogy, source-based design in (re)production of the space and society. Next to the research, publishing and teaching activities, Armina develops visual works and co-seminars, individually and collectively crossing architecture and art practices at the conferences, festivals and international exhibitions such as Venice Biennale of Architecture.