Das Arbeitende Konzert/ The Working Concert : The Book
out now on spector books! Das Arbeitende Konzert (AK) / The Working Concert is a performative installation work focused on concerts and their representations as creative media, whereby concerts are understood not as neutral frames but as a form of artistic expression and as critical dispositifs or apparatuses. The AK ’s Revisions I–VII and the process […]
Interview Futuretext
This is an interview on teaching the conceptualization of representation in urban design in architecture. I gave this interview in Paris in February 2020 on the occasion of the exhibition “Inscriptions en relation” at Palais de la Porte Doreé and as part of futuretext. Thanks so much to Ewa Satalecka and Jan Piechota Polish-Japanese Academy of […]
Tagung Freiheitsgrade im öffentlichen Raum
5. März 2020 im Tagungszelt am Wittenberger Weg/Schwarzer Weg in Düsseldorf-Garath ‘Freiheitsgrad’ ist ein Begriff aus der Physik, der voneinander unabhängige veränderliche Parameter eines Systems bezeichnet. Die Quantenfeldtheorie beschreibt Wechselwirkungen von Feldern untereinander durch unendlich viele Freiheitsgrade. Am 5. März 2020 wertet die interdisziplinäre Tagung unendlich viele freiheitsgrade – im öffentlichen raum sieben Jahre […]
Video Dialogue Concerts #2 Interaction
The video presents atmospheric impressions from the second event of the Dialogue Concerts. Conceptual Research on Architecture and Music on 06.02.2020 at Aedes Architektur Forum, curated by Christopher Dell #2 Interaction Interaction can be defined as a situation in which two or more humans or objects act in relation to each other. If “each habitat […]
Essay Introduction
in: Dell, Christopher (ed.) Reading and Representing the City, The Book as Inscription in Relation, Paris, Civic City. Produced with the students of the Seminar Reading and Showing the City at University of Arts, Berlin in the Winter-Semester 2019-2020, this artist’s book was displayed at the exhibition “incriptions en relation” at Musée Palais de la […]
“Reading and Showing the City” in Paris
Christopher Dell participates with the students of his seminar “Reading and Representing the CIty” at the exhibition “inscriptions en relation” 14-16 February at Palais Porte de la Dorée, Paris. The seminar took place in winter semester 2019-20 at the department of architecture and urban design at Berlin University of Arts. The exhibition is curated by civic […]
What is Design Today? Interview with Xin Cheng
in: Xin Cheng, A Seedbag for Resourcefulness, Hamburg: Material Verlag 2020 a seedbag for resourcefulness grew out of over twelve years of walking around urban environments in the Asia-Pacific and Europe, noticing small modifications of shared spaces and the interplay between the many maker-user-carer-hackers. Xin talked with urban theorist and musician Christopher Dell about the […]
Vic Firth Endorsement
happy and gratefull to join the Vi Firth family! A big thank you to Joe Testa, Anders Åstrand and Frank Rohe! pic: Rolf Kißling
Dialogue Concerts #2 Interaction
Conceptual Research on Architecture and Music curated by Christopher Dell Date Thursday, 6 February 2020 6.30pm Venue Aedes Architecture Forum Christinenstr. 18-19 10119 Berlin The lecture and discussion will be held in English. Entrance is free, but seats are limited to partake please register reply@ancb.de #2 Interaction Interaction can be defined as a situation […]
video Dialogue Concerts #1
Mediality, The video presents atmospheric impressions from the first event of the Dialogue Concerts on 12.12.2019 at Aedes Architektur Forum. Designed as a montage of lecture, concert and discussion, Dialogue Concerts will examine how urban space determines our communal life from December 2019 to November 2020. In this context, the city is not defined as […]