For The Gap

Idea by

Li Pallas, Larissa Eteson, and Gakku Jumaniyasova

http://www.likeanarch.com

Los Angeles, United States of America

Li Pallas (they/them) is a Designer, Filmmaker, and Urbanist living in Los Angeles, CA whose critical practice is one of repeatedly examining discourse for false dualities in order to illuminate who benefits from generalized obscurity. As such, they center their politics on how the intersections of transness, BIPOCs, and abledness illuminate pathways for collective liberation, rather than individualized upward mobility.

Call for ideas 2021

While architects often believe in the inherent progressivism of their field, our diverse academics explore architecture’s pathologies with nuanced takes from inside and outside the profession.

# Social

Systemic changes

In a fractured state of the university and truth, what does sitting with complexity actually look like? How do we even begin to talk about how calls for complexity, while needed, can also feed an obfuscation in which hegemony thrives? The title For the Gap comes from the German Mut zur Lücke which means, “courage to be in the gap.” For the Gap has invited a range of intellectuals to help piece together disparate and incongruous opinions on the value of art, trying to get back to a sense of worldview. Two windows display visual language of fissures, the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, and the moral complexity of the present moment with regard to austerity. A third contains an evolution of our diagrammatic practice.

Interviewees in order of appearance:
McKenzie Wark
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Francisco Diaz
Ana María León
Romi Ron Morrison
Joshua Scannell

All interviews were conducted by myself. Please do not share this link.

https://vimeo.com/456017325/54521f3f12

Ana Teixeira Pinto

Francisco Diaz

Romi Morrison

Joshua Scannell

While architects often believe in the inherent progressivism of their field, our diverse academics explore architecture’s pathologies with nuanced takes from inside and outside the profession.