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6.30-7.30pm Friday 23 March 2007
Reynolds Room, Royal Academy, W1
Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Programme
David Watkins: Soane’s Academy Lectures
As Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy, Sir John Soane gave a series of illustrated lectures between 1809 and 1820 which were ‘to form the taste of the Students’. His lectures contain many provocative and unexpected passages that are clarified and enlivened by wonderful illustrations of architecture from pre-history to the latest buildings of Regency London. Professor David Watkin, guest curator of the current exhibition of these illustrations at Sir John Soane's Museum, delivers a version of these lectures based exclusively on Soane's words and illustrations.
£10/£5 students (incl. a drink). To book tickets please call 020 7300 5839
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As part of the event programme 'Actions and Interruptions' at Tate Modern we invite you to join
From the play me series ''Clap in time' 2006
Clap in time (All the people at Tate Modern)
16.30, Saturday 10th of March, 2007 -with Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan Lund
The artists will start clapping. They have invited people they know to join them, and asked all the people working in the building, to pause whatever they are doing when they hear clapping and clap along.
The sound of clapping will spread through the building from person to person, interrupting all activities on its way.
It will be announced that all the people at Tate Modern will clap in time. Some visitors will make up their minds whether they belong to the group defined as ‘All the people at Tate Modern’, some will be confronted with the unavoidable choice by the act. There are only performers and spectators, the people clapping and the people being clapped at.
Based on simple instructions Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan Lund set up situations for different defined groups of people to play out. Be it asking them to hide behind the trees in the woods, hold their breath for as long as they all can or to bow in time, they all reference social games, customs and mannerisms. All the situations Beier and Lund initiate, impose social behavior and challenge the participators’ sense of individuality.
For more information contact: info@ninajanbeier-mariejanlund.com
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Actions and Interruptions is a day-long exhibition of live works at Tate Modern that explores performance as a form of sculptural intervention in the everyday. The programme features performative works by Roman Ondák, Dora Garcia, Marie Jan Lund and Nina Jan Beier, Jiri Kovanda and Mario Garcia Torres that erupt in various locations in the gallery’s public spaces or in the displays, often at unexpected moments.
Catherine Wood, Tate Curator of contemporary art/performance, is in conversation with the artists taking part in the Actions and Interruptions programme at 18.00 in the Starr Auditorium. (Free, no booking taken, limited seating on a first-come, first-served basis)
This:

is supposed to be one of the most important projects being built in Prague in last decades. THE NATIONAL LIBRARY
already flying on the net:

36 years old German architect, studied his Phd in Frei Otto`s studio in Stuttgart.
http://www.chrisbosse.de/
WATERCUBE project in Beijing
aprox 200x200 metres
mid tech - term he uses:
high tech strusture put together by 2200 workers on bamboo scaffolding.
the price of the building equals prada shop by HdM in Tokyo (100 000 000$)
info thanks to adam - czech speakers: archit