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Lectures June 19th 2020
Iván López Munuera – HIV/AIDS Discotecture: The Political Space of Epidemics

Ivan L. Munuera, Princeton University

 

LECTURE TITLE: HIV/AIDS Discotecture: The Political Space of Epidemics

 

The New York party scene in the early 1980s created an architectural revolution where new forms of critical consciousness emerged, embedded in and abetted by a built environment where bodies, music, messages, and technologies were drawn into an extensive urban fabric of political activism—a scene meshed by nightclubs and discos that blurred boundaries and identities: between gig and performance, theater and political space, and between performer, spectator, and activist. These places shared what appear to be purely aesthetic components based on the qualities of the mixture, recycling, and the unfinished, but these repeating elements were also strategic responses to the temporary nature of the spaces that housed them. Most importantly, these strategies became the model for an emerging form of political engagement to face the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

 

Biography

 

Ivan L. Munuera is a New York-based scholar, critic, and curator working at the intersection of culture, technology, politics, and bodily practices in the modern period and on the global stage. Since 2015 he is developing his dissertation on the architecture of HIV/AIDS at Princeton University.His research has been generously sponsored by the PIIRS (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies) Grant for Winter, and the CCA (Canadian Centre for Architecture) Summer Research Grant. He has presented his work at various academics forums, such as the Association for Art History, Cornell AAP, Columbia GSAPP, the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Cooper Union, University of Virginia, Princeton University, Sussex University, MICA, and ETSAM among others.His work has been published in Log, Perspecta (upcoming issue 53), The Architect’s Newspaper, and El País, among others. He has curated exhibitions at Museo Reina Sofía (The Schizos, 2009), Ludwig Museum (ACAX Residency, 2010), Princeton University (Liquid La Habana, 2018), and CA2M (Pop Politics, 2012-2013); and developed a series of broadcasted projects, including Bauhauswelle (Floating University Berlin, 2018), and Chromanoids (Istanbul Design Biennale, 2016; Seoul Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, 2017).

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