Open House Lecture: Frida Escobedo, “Split Subject”

Frida Escobedo is principal and founder of an architecture and design studio based in Mexico City. The projects produced at the studio operate within a theoretical framework that addresses time not as a historical calibration, but rather a social operation. This expanded temporal reading stems directly from Henri Bergson’s notion of ‘social time,’ and is articulated in conceptual works such as the El Eco Pavilion (2010), Split Subject (2013) and Civic Stage (2013). By these measures of practice and thought, social time unfolds across multiple subjects at multiple speeds and modes of duration.

The work developed at Frida Escobedo´s studio ranges from art installation and furniture design to residential and public buildings. The firm’s projects include ‘You know you cannot see so well as by reflection’, a summer Pavilion designed for the central courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the exhibition design for ‘Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today,’ curated by Pablo León de la Barra and organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York in collaboration with the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo; and ‘A very short space of time through very short times of space’, an art installation commissioned by Stanford University. Most recently, she was commissioned to design the 2018 Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens.

Photo © Rafael Gamo, via Harvard GSD

When
31 October 2019, 18:30
Where
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
48 Quincy Street
02138 Cambridge, USA
Organizer
Harvard GSD
Link
Harvard GSD

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