Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies

RESTAURANT
Vienna

Restaurant   Valentina Triet A restaurant located in Vienna’s 4th district. It serves food rooted in my father’s cultural background. The sensory experience of eating—grounded in the mouth—becomes a point of departure…

mouth

{ mouth }   I hate the idea of putting these preformed gestures on the tip of my tongue or through my lips or through the inside of my mouth, forming sounds…

Valentina Triet

Valentina Triet (she/her) is a Swiss Nepalese video artist who was born and raised in Winterthur, Switzerland. She completed her studies in Textual Sculpture in the class of Heimo Zobernig at the…

spiral-shaped

{ spiral-shaped }   A format from the world of theatre that proposes an alternative to linear storytelling; so-called spiral-shaped dramaturgy. It was developed by the Danish dramaturg Ulla Ryum together with…

critical fabulation

{ critical fabulation }   I’ve carried an idea for a while: to create an imagined meeting of a few of my female ancestors on the Áhkánålggie mountain. Details of the Sami…

ÁHKÁNÅLGGIE
Sweden

Áhkánålggie   Susanne Ewerlöf My most recent visit was a few days ago. I had just arrived in the nearby town, and after picking up my rental car I drove straight there…

visiting

{ visiting }   “Visiting is a way to think about being present, in relationship, over time. This attention to relationship engages places, lands and waters, just as we can connect with…

Susanne Ewerlöf

Susanne Ewerlöf relies on Indigenous knowledge when contemplating how to approach the curatorial in a decolonizing way, questioning both the spatial and temporal logics that often frames exhibitions or spaces made to…

A RAIN WATER BASIN
Berlin

On the edge of fascist infrastructures   Serena Abbondanza We are located in Berlin, Germany, right next to the former Nazi airport—an airport built in the 1930s, in the middle of the…

transhumance – transumanza

{ transhumance - transumanza }   Transhumance - in italian transumanza - refers to a seasonal form of pastoral mobility in which the shepherds move livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures,…