[mscp] Philosophy + Architecture March: CLEAN

[Esther Anatolitis]

RMIT Architecture presents
Philosophy and Architecture 2006 series 

MARCH: "CLEAN" with NICOLAS LOW
Next Thursday, 9 March 7:30pm in RMIT Theatre 8.11.68
(Enter via Swanston St: Bldg 8, level 11, theatre 68 - to the right of
the lifts)

Artist Nicolas Low discusses his latest project: providing street-level
insight into how our local urban spaces are transformed by an
international event. 

CLEAN is an sensor-driven, ambush-style audio installation which
explores the cleanup of Melbourne for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. CLEAN
looks at what it means to scrub up a city in the name of sport and
nationalism. We'll be taking the sparkling rhetoric of the Games and
hiding it amongst the bins and cobbles of one of Melbourne's best known
laneways - Hosier Lane. It's a celebration of the laughing, singing,
whispering and shouting of the city's 'undesireable' elements alongside
all the flag-waving, anthems and fanfare. Built from recordings taken
over the last two months with homeless people, injecting drug users,
skaters, buskers, graff artists and other members of Melbourne's
invisible communities, CLEAN will bring the dirty side of the city to
life in the midst of the Commonwealth Games' urban polish. 

ORIGINALLY FROM NEW ZEALAND, NICOLAS LOW works in a wide variety of
creative fields, spanning writing, new media design and art direction.
He has worked as the Artistic Director of the Sustainable Living
Foundation's annual Future Cities Project in 2004 and 2005, an
arts/science collaboration which takes place at the Melbourne Museum and
is exhibited in Federation Square. Nic is co-creator of the Nomadology
project, an online blogging journal of travellers' tales and their
relationships to space which has recently received funding from the
Australia Council (Literature Board). He does poetry readings in
laundromats, featured in the 2005 Melbourne Fringe show 'Weapons of Mass
Creation', and has had writing published in Voiceworks magazine,
Undergrowth magazine, IsNot Magazine, and Strange Shapes, MUP's
anthology of new Melbourne writing. Nic is currently an MA (Creative
Writing) candidate at the University of Melbourne.

HELD ON THE SECOND THURSDAY OF THE MONTH, the 2006 Philosophy and
Architecture series provides a unique opportunity for a space of
exchange between the two disciplines. While what we provide is a local
space – Melbourne philosophers and Melbourne architects on Melbourne
issues – the Philosophy and Architecture series welcomes speakers from
any discipline to engage with questions of contemporary urbanism,
planning, technology, space, system, design, distribution and other
issues in the productive overlap between the two disciplines. We curate
a diverse range of presentations, from research students and established
academics to architecture and planning practitioners, policy makers,
public artists and those working in the world between theory, buildings
and the city. 

The 2006 program is presented by RMIT Architecture and Design. For all
enquiries: Esther Anatolitis or Hélène Frichot.
http://www.mscp.org.au/architecture.htm