
Spring 2014
The notions of the public and public space have been traditionally associated with the idea of collective interest and civic participation. Today, however, public spaces throughout the world are being increasingly restricted through privatisation and institutional powers obsessed with security, surveillance and control. Meanwhile, the Internet and social media has expanded the notion of the public sphere, from the physical to the virtual. At times, an action in one sphere affects the other: a flash mob starts with a tweet, a Facebook campaign fights the closure of a park, and an Instagram image fuels a revolution.
By creating a focussed environment for UK-based and international practitioners, through this programme Delfina Foundation aims to facilitate exchange and foster new ideas and propositions about the public domain. This will be done through peer-to-peer conversations between participants in a series of informal gatherings and meals, as well as targeted organisational visits and opportunities to engage with artists, academics and researchers interested in the same lines of inquiry. Internal events are complemented with a public programme of talks, screenings, dinners and panel discussions to engage with the public-at-large.
Public Programme
Open Studio: The Public Domain
27/04/2014 — 20/06/2014
Open Studio
Digitizing Dissent With Mosireen Collective
28/04/2014
Talk
The Politics Of Irresponsibility: Human Rights & The Commons
06/05/2014
Talk
Temporality in Architecture, Food and Communities with Keg De Souza
10/05/2014
Meal
Artist Film Club At The ICA: Azin Feizabadi
10/05/2014
Screening
Mass Media As Medium
14/05/2014
Talk
How and where to draw the circle?: Biennials and Publics
21/05/2014
Panel
Open Media Ecologies
09/06/2014
Screening
The Politics of Food and Outer Space
20/06/2014
Screening
Architecture After Revolution
28/06/2014
Panel
Residents
Azin Feizabadi
London: 15/04/2014 — 07/06/2014
Alessandro Petti
London: 06/04/2014 — 01/07/2014
Keg de Souza
London: 01/04/2014 — 12/06/2014
Maxime Hourani
London: 08/04/2014 — 28/06/2014
Sherief Gaber
London: 13/04/2014 — 18/05/2014
Işıl Eğrikavuk
London: 12/05/2014 — 23/06/2014
Övül Ö.Durmuşoğlu
London: 08/04/2014 — 19/05/2014
UK Associates
Lorenzo Pezzani
London: 01/05/2014 — 23/06/2014
Nishat Awan
London: 26/04/2014 — 23/06/2014
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad
London: 13/01/2014 — 06/04/2014
Cressida Kocienski
London: 26/04/2014 — 23/06/2014
David Brazier and Kelda Free
London: 16/04/2014 — 20/06/2014
Basia Lewandowska Cummings
London: 07/04/2014 — 20/06/2014
Young In Hong
London: 01/04/2014 — 12/06/2014