Architecture Open Lecture Series 2010 /11
- University of Greenwich
- School of Architecture & Construction
- Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
- Bexley Road, Eltham, London SE9 2PQ
- Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre (M055)
Wed 17 November 2010 17.00
Marko Jobst
FRAMING CHAOS: ARCHITECTURE OUT‐OF‐FIELD
The ‘first gesture of art’ is one in which the body is separated from the earth, writes Elizabeth Grosz in Chaos, Territory, Art. It is ‘the construction or fabrication of the frame.’ This makes the initial ‘artistic impulse […] not body‐art but architecture‐art,’ and art, as a consequence, ‘the extension of the architectural imperative to organize the space of the earth.’ (Grozs, Chaos, Territory, Art)
This lecture will look at the concept of framing in Deleuze and Guattari’s definition of architecture, expanding it through the concept of the cinematic out‐of‐field, itself developed by Deleuze in his cinema books as a way of explaining the nature of the ‘beyond’ of every frame. This will be used to challenge Beatriz Colomina’s reading of Adolf Loos’ and Le Corbusier’s techniques of framing and put forward a more complex understanding of the relationship between architecture and the media in modernism, in particular in relation to the exterior. The argument will be supported by excerpts from examples of works of the so‐called artists’ cinema, which questions the expected relationship between architecture and the media used to frame it.
Marko Jobst (DIA Belgrade University; MArch MSc Phd UCL) is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Greenwich where he directs the MSc Architectural Studies programme. Research interests: cinema, writing, Deleuze.