February 18, 2025, 7pm
Brooklyn 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux on Tuesday, February 18 at 7pm for a presentation by Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu, curators and co-editors of the e-flux Architecture project Material Acts, to discuss their most recent publication and exhibition, Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design.
Material Acts accompanies and shares its name with the exhibition at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles in 2024, offering a companion that delves into the research shown in the galleries. The publication is organized around the same five thematic material acts of the exhibition: Animating, Disassembling, Feeding, Re-fusing, and Stitching. Formats employed include commissioned essays, photography, how-to-guides, and conversations spanning the scope of the project.
Together, these projects examine the role of nature as a starting point for material experimentation in the domains of architecture, craft, and science. While nature has often stood in as a model, metaphor, or resource for designers, the recent global upheavals in climate, ecology, and technology are driving intensive understandings of nature’s tangible and imagined substrate. These projects look at how contemporary design practices mobilize, confound, and generate natures, whether through simulating mechanics or growing biological matter.
This event will feature a presentation by Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu, along with readings and reflections by Lola Ben-Alon, Felecia Davis, and Elsa Mäki, amongst others.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom.
