guest talk by EMMANUELLE CHIAPPONE-PIRIOU: onanistic engenderings

11.10 AT 18.30 - ZOOM LINK ID: 641 0493 2405

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Picking up on Meteora’s theme for its fifth season, this talk will explore engendering from the perspective of onanism. Convoking episodes and figures from mythology, religion and art, we will reflect on what the possibility of self-engendered, impure lineages would entail.

 

Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou is an architect and independent curator, based in Paris. Trained as an architect (ENSA La Villette) and architecture historian (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), she is pursuing her PhD and engages in teaching at the department.

Her current interests revolve arounf the experimental dimension of architecture, and the political and aesthetical implications of the engagement with notions of information, coding and computation.

Professionally, Emmanuelle is a lecturer at ENSA Paris Malaquais. She is currently a member of the Contemporary Culture & City scientific Council at the CIVA Foundation (Brussels). Emmanuelle has collaborated to numerous exhibitions and publications, notably at Centre Pompidou and OMA/AMO. From 2011 to 2016, she held the position of Program Curator at the Frac Centre, co-curating Naturalizing Architecture (2013), The City as a Vision (2014) and Reliefs (2015), as well as the program of cultural and educational events. Recent projects also focus on the frictions between architecture, art and computation and include research collaborations with artists and architects, amongst which [we]S.A.N.K. led by Vincent Roumagnac or The Prince’s Tears, with Anne-Valérie Gasc.