Viral Institute of Performance Architecture
Viral Institute of Performance Architecture
Viral Institute of Performance Architecture
To cite this article: Aliki Kylika & Kyveli Anastasiadi (2016) Viral Institute of Performance
Architecture, Performance Research, 21:6, 87-93, DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2016.1251113
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The economic repression and moral crisis In his teachings in the AA in London (in
of the 1970s carried out the revolutions and about 1975), Bernard Tschumi focused on
experiments of the 1960s by fusing them in the body as equally important to space and
the mainstream lifestyle, and shifted away explored, together with his students, new media
from a social universal spirit towards the rise in representing architecture; performances,
of the neoliberal ideology of the free market storyboards, photographs, films, installations
and individualism. Throughout the decade, and sketches enhanced the more traditional
performance art was solidified as an emerging drawings and models of architectural
genre that incorporated the happenings and representation. He embarked with RoseLee
other experiments of the previous years. Goldberg, a teacher at the Royal College of
The genre expanded to a wide range of very Art (RCA) at the time, into an investigation
different forms of art that equally engaged of the relationship between performance art
with live action and bodies to reflect on and architecture that inspired the formation
various themes around and not limited to of the highly experimental group of the
experience, time, sexuality, gender, theatre, London Conceptualists (Kaji-O’Grady 2008).
architecture, dance and photography. The era The activities of the Conceptualists did not
saw the emergence of several artist-led spaces always meet the approval of their architecture
that hosted performances and that in some teacher, as they moved on from objects towards
cases later evolved in the more institutional
format of museums and galleries. Educational
programmes in art and architecture schools were
also affected by the alternative spirit of the era,
experimenting with the form of the classroom
and the institution as well as the curriculum and
the core subject of the discipline.
While a number of radical educational
programmes in architectural schools have
historically introduced performing arts as part
of their curriculum (such as the modernist art
school Bauhaus, 1919–33 and Black Mountain
College, 1933–57), the cases of the Architectural
Association School of Architecture (the AA) in
London in the 1970s and the Southern Illinois
University of Carbondale in the 1960s serve as
examples where performance art and theory
infiltrated the teaching as well as the subject
of architecture, extending the practice into ■■The Manhattan Transcripts
new pathways. (1976-1981). Wikicommons
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