Cuban architect-duo Anadis Gonzales and Fernando Martirena, founders of Infraestudio, are the recipients of the Tilting Axis/Het Nieuwe Instituut Analysis Fellowship 2021/2022. They are going to be in dialog through the on-line occasion “Structure as Theatre” on Thursday, April 14, 2022, from 1:30 to three:00pm (EDT).
The architects will current a sequence of fictional tasks developed through the fellowship, which critically query the connection between architectural design and present issues akin to political transparency, the boycott of ecology, censorship, surveillance and punishment. Invited to affix the dialog are Neyran Turan and Jonas Staal. This occasion is moderated by Federica Notari.
Throughout their fellowship Gonzales and Martirena targeted on growing and investigating the relationships between structure, politics and theater. The place do these practices meet and what occurs after we consider structure as a theater? What sort of influence can this should subvert sure political contexts? Can structure have an efficient political company, concurrently with its purposeful one?
Fernando Martirena (b.1992) at present works and lives in Havana. He graduated from the Technical College of Havana, the place he gave lectures on the speculation and criticism of structure. Martirena co-founded the artwork and structure studio Infraestudio along with Anadis González. Infraestudio is a transdisciplinary apply eager about house, politics, the minimal and fiction. Along with architectural tasks, Martirena has produced books, collages, installations, city analysis and editorial tasks. His work seeks for example the poetics of a minor structure targeted on concepts moderately than types. At present, the studio has 5 buildings underneath development, together with the Line 508 Modern Artwork Middle. Infraestudio has participated in exhibitions within the final two iterations of the Havana Biennial, the Ludwig Basis of Cuba, the Gorría Gallery Workshop and Cuban Artwork Manufacturing facility. Fernando can also be Coordinator of the Cuban Structure Research Group. Being one of many protagonists of up to date Cuban structure, he has totally studied its political and social situation, and has printed important texts about it in Arquine, Rialta Journal and No Nation Journal. Different examples of his positioning in the direction of nationwide structure have been the curatorship of two group exhibitions that includes installations, performances and digital artwork. He has additionally been one of many fundamental activists and leaders of the Marketing campaign for the Legalisation of Cuban Unbiased Structure, which as much as the current day stays unlawful.
Anadis González (b.1994) is the co-founder of the artwork and structure studio Infraestudio and the editorial mission Inframince Editions. She studied Music within the Skilled Faculty of Arts of Matanzas till 2013 and graduated in Structure and City Planning from the Technological College of Havana in 2018. Her private obsessions draw a physique of pursuits whose borders are house, politics, and fiction. Along with structure tasks she has made books, artistic endeavors, city analysis, and curatorial tasks; searching for for example the poetics of a story and minor structure from a transdisciplinary apply primarily based in Havana. She has participated within the final two artwork Havana Biennials and in 2019 Infraestudio made its first solo exhibition in The Ludwig Basis of Cuba, All the things I Say is Solely What You Hear. Throughout 2019 she labored as a member of the exhibition´s board in GECA. (Group of Cuban Structure Studios) had been she and Martirena curated the exhibitions akin to How does the stress takes you?, a important overview of Cuban architects´ work. Throughout the identical 12 months she curated Postales a Margot within the Manufacturing facility of Cuban Artwork, to acknowledge the function of Cuban feminine architects of the previous and current. She at present works and lives in Havana.
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[Shown above: Untitled (The Universal Art Museum of Cuba and the 5 Star Hotel Manzana Kempinski) by Infraestudio, 2020.]