![]() ![]() QUEERING THE CITY: A SONO-ORIENTATION by Katayoun Arian, along with artists Angela Anderson, Irene Cassarini, Karachi Beach Radio, and Gayatri Kodikal.Ī sound installation with a range of works by artists invited by Katayoun Arian. It is an oneiric story where we see a city becoming empty despite being completely equipped for occupation. The most important part of Inverted Tents is not the way these tents are inhabited, but rather the space generated around them, where new ways of collectively satisfying its inhabitants’ basic needs must be found. It proposes setting out a system of tents suspended from the ceilings of buildings, introducing a new set of regulations to inhabit these small individual spaces. The fact that it is impossible to give one single definition of what a city is provides a wealth of diverse, even divergent interpretations, which are primarily social constructs. ![]() The stories raised in this exhibition can help to problematize and question the conventional definition of "city", revealing through its fables, new and different ways of inhabiting the world. This time a group of contemporary practices, from different generations and a range of professional expertises, have been invited to reconceptualize the original Superstudio format and transform the exhibition into a tool that helps us rethink our role in the construction of the city. These new fables, as if emerging from the pages of a book, have the intention of questioning what we understand as ‘city’, and thus, help us to reimagine what the city could become -as that space where relations, nature, bodies, and geographies coexist.Įach one of these practices tells a fable in the form of an artistic installation, creating a series of narratives open to various readings. ![]() It was a series of twelve short stories, each accompanied by a single illustration, conjuring the image of twelve proposals of ideal cities. The exhibition gravitates around one simple question: what is your ideal city like? In an attempt to respond to this question, the exhibition “Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales” takes its inspiration from the project “Twelve Cautionary Tales for Christmas”, by the group of architects Superstudio, first published in 1971 in Architectural Design. ![]()
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