"Post Disaster Architecture" Screening of film Tsunami Architecture Followed by a conversation at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony > 5:30pm on 6th February 2015

Time : 5:30 pm Add to Calendar 06-02-2015 17:30:00 06-02-2015 19:30:00 68 "Post Disaster Architecture" Screening of film Tsunami Architecture Followed by a conversation Event Page : http://goo.gl/Bj9SqJ Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024

Venue Info : www.vadehraart.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Lajpat Nagar(Violet Line)'

Event Description : Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, in Association with Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, Presents "Post Disaster Architecture" Screening of film Tsunami Architecture by Christoph Draeger and Heidrun Holzfeind 

The screening will be followed with a conversation between the artists and architect Moulshri Joshi, whose firm Space Matters is working on the redevelopment of the former Union Carbide factory in Bhopal into a memorial.

The discussion will be moderated by architect Madhav Raman.

About the Film :

Tsunami Architecture (60 min, 2012) looks at the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, one of the worst natural catastrophes in history. Artists Christoph Draeger and Heidrun Holzfeind visited the affected sites six years later, when international attention had long faded. Yet post-tsunami challenges continued to have an impact on affected communities. On a three month trip from December 2010 to February 2011 the two visited the five countries most affected – Thailand, Aceh/Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives and India and investigated the current state of architecture built or reconstructed in the aftermath of the tsunami. Using video and photography, they documented the long-term effects of the disaster through conversations with survivors, eyewitnesses, aid workers and rescue personnel. They also established a collection of footage of the disaster and the reconstruction efforts. They were interested in how the flood of aid money has transformed the affected regions, rebuilt and refashioned local economies and shaped communities. How does collective and individual memory work, years after such a highly publicized media mega-event? How has architecture built after the Tsunami been able to respond to the individual needs of affected communities? How were these communities able to participate in the recovery process? How have these structures been adapted over time by their inhabitants, and how did architectural interventions alter societal and communal structures? Their research trip and the filming was finished just weeks before the Fukushima disaster. 

About the speakers :
Christoph Draeger is a conceptual artist who has been working on themes of disaster and destruction for over 20 years. His projects take form in installation, video, and photo-based media to explore issues pertaining to catastrophe and media-saturated culture. Solo exhibitions include 2014 Lokal 30 Warsaw; Centre d'Art Contemporain Yverdon (w/Heidrun Holzfeind), 2013 Kunsthaus Rapperswil; 2012 Kunsthalle Arbon; OK Centrum Linz (w/Heidrun Holzfeind); 2008 CCA Centre of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowskie Castle, Warsaw (PL) Roebling Hall, New York 2003 Kunstmuseum Solothurn  2000 Kunsthaus Zurich (w/Reynold Reynolds); Orchard Gallery, Derry. Group exhibitions include the Tamayo Museum and Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, New Museum, MoMA, P.S.1 (all in New York), Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Paco das Artes in Sao Paulo, Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, KW Kunstwerke Berlin,; Biennals: 55th Venice Biennial 2013, Moscou 2007, Liverpool 2002, Havanna 2000, Kwangju 1997.

Heidrun Holzfeind is interested in how architecture interacts with people’s everyday life. She questions immanent architectural and social utopias of modernist residential buildings, exploring the borders between history and identity, individual histories and political narratives of the present. Her work has been shown at Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Centre d’Art Contemporain Yverdon; M29 Richter • Brückner, Cologne; MdM Salzburg; the Maldives Pavilion at the 55thVenice Biennale; BAWAG Contemporary Vienna; Mumok, Vienna; OK Centrum Linz; MoMA, New York; Camera Austria, Graz; CCS Bard; Lentos Museum Linz; Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona; Manifesta 7, Rovereto; De Vleeshal, Middleburg; SAPS, Mexico City; CCA, Ujazdowski castle, Warsaw; Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Artists Space, New York and many other venues. She is the recipient of the Camera Austria prize for contemporary photography (2011), the Gerhard and Birgit Gmoser-Prize for Contemporary Art, Secession Vienna (2011), the Outstanding artist award for photography 2012 of the Austrian Arts Council and the young artist award for contemporary art Tyrol 2014. 

Moulshri Joshi is an architect, academic and a full-time mother to a toddler. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the School of Planning & Architecture. She is also a founding partner of the Delhi-based practice Space Matters who are the architects for the redevelopment of the former Union Carbide factory in Bhopal into a ‘memorial’. She represents TICCIH : The International Committee for Conservation of Industrial Heritage in India and is a core member of mAAN : modern Asian Architecture Network. Moulshri’s professional & academic work reflects her strong base in environmental, social and political concerns of urbanism. Her recent book, Bhopal2011: Landscapes of Memory explores the conversion of a site of pain & shame – the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal – into a site for negotiation and engagement. She serves as an advisor to a series of modern industrial sites in Japan towards their nomination to the UNESCO’s world heritage list.

Madhav Raman is an architect and urbanist. He founded Anagram Architects in 2001, an architectural practice in partnership with Vaibhav Dimri, that offers expertise in urban design, architecture, sustainability and research. Anagram Architects is internationally recognised as amongst the top emerging practices in the world with a commitment towards delivering deeply contextual designs that encourage sustainable lifestyles. The young practice has garnered much international acclaim including a nomination for the Aga Khan Award 2010. Its work has been premiated at the Architectural Review’s World Emerging Architecture Awards 2007, the Cityscape Architectural Awards 2008 & 2010, the Wienerberger Brick Awards 2010, the SAIE Bologna 2010, 2011 and 2012 and the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction 2011, among others. Anagram Architects has also featured in the International Architeure Biennale 2010 in Rotterdam and Biennial of Design (BIO23) 2012 held in Ljubljana. 

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