Lecture by Anders Rubing
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Anders Rubing’s presentation will reflect on the video programme within the Latent City exhibition, taking a cue from his ongoing research at the Center for Women and Gender Research (SKOK) at the University of Bergen. Rubing’s research aims to unpack how visions of different urban futures are produced by urban security and resilience discourses, with a focus on dimensions relating to migration, social inequality and gender. As an architect and teacher, Rubing has a broad approach to architecture, as something that both influences and is influenced by society, politics, economy, struggles for democracy, diversity, marginalisation and inequality. The presentation will take approximately 20 mins and will be in English.
Participating artists in the video programme are Aleksander Johan Andreassen, Aske Thiberg, Jonas Ersland, Pia Rönicke, Stephen Connolly and Tivon Rice. The video programme will be on show online at bek.no during the exhibition period. More info to come. Due to current covid-19 restriction in Bergen the exhibition space will not be open to the audience.
Anders Rubing (b 1983, Umeå, Sweden) is an architect and a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK), University of Bergen. In his Ph.D. project, he wishes to unpack how visions of different urban futures are produced by urban security and resilience discourses, with a focus on dimensions relating to migration, social inequality and gender. As an architect and teacher, Rubing has a broad approach to architecture, as something that both influences and is influenced by society, politics, economy, struggles for democracy, diversity, marginalisation and inequality. Rubing was educated at Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) and is teaching at the same institution. He was co-editor for the award-winning book The City Between Freedom and Security (2017). Rubing has designed a broad spectrum of architecture, urban plans, and public art commissions and is currently one of three curators for the Nordic architecture exhibition Jävla kritiker!.
Portrait photo: Thor Brødreskift
Image from Jævla kritiker!
Latent City
Latent City presents artistic productions dealing with the city’s hidden stories. Seen through the lens of artistic observation, latent infrastructures and questions of digital presence and of power and democracy in our cities, meet in an exhibition that takes place over three weeks. The Latent City is the city that awaits, the one that is about to unfold, our common future city.
Several of the art projects are financed or commissioned by BEK, while others are existing works presented in new formats. A video program will be on show throughout the project period and there will be an extensive program of talks and performances. Please read more about the project and the programme here.
