An online talk on the exhibition Architecture is Frozen Music

Join us for an online conversation about the exhibition Architecture is Frozen Music, which presents three iterations of an ongoing series of stop-motion videos created by the French artist Laure Catugier in the cities of Tel Aviv, Tehran and Alexandria.

Catugier will talk about the artistic work process involved in the series, which combines walking through the city streets and a visual and acoustic investigation of modernist architectural forms and manifestations in places she visits on artist residency programs. She will talk about the artistic language of her collage and about her collaboration with the sound artist Hagai Izenberg.

Dr. Michal Huss, will reflect on the agency of pedestrians to rewrite the city’s architectural syntax, on the poetic and aesthetic qualities of walking as well as the ability of this seemingly banal activity to transgress social-political divides, and on the role of art in reconfiguring the city Dr. Neta Feniger will present a historical perspective on planning, building and concrete in the Middle East and on architectural modernism as a uniting practice in the region. She will discuss professional connections between planners, builders and engineers, and their relations with clients living under different political and economic regimes. Mon. 18 June 2022, 8 p.m. Tel Aviv time, Zoom The talk is in English, free, advance registration required Exhibition ends 27 August 2022 The talk is moderated by Sabrina Cegla, curator of the exhibition.

Laure Catugier Is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work examines the geometric language of modernism, as part of her preoccupation with the global standardization of construction.

Dr. Michal Huss is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Architecture, Tel Aviv University. Her research deals with the analysis of public planning and construction struggles and the urban resistance of displaced populations.

Dr. Neta Feniger is an architectural historian. Her research focuses on the technopolitical and transnational aspects of landscape architecture, infrastructure and architecture produced by Israeli architects in the Middle East.

The exhibition is supported by the French Institute in Israel.