What Drawing Does

What Drawing Does
Professor Dorita Hannah and Simon Twose in conversation

Please join us as visiting Architectural Performance Theorist, Professor Dorita Hannah converses with architect Simon Twose about his upcoming participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi
Friday 8 April
12 midday - 12.40pm

Adam Art Gallery and Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture invite you to a mobile discussion about performative possibilities in drawing. The conversation between Dorita Hannah and Simon Twose will be held in the Gallery, amongst contemporary drawings in the current shows: Linie, Line, Linea: Contemporary Drawingand Matthew Barney: DRAWING RESTRAINT.

BIOS

Dorita Hannah is Research Professor of Interdisciplinary Architecture, Art & Design at the University of Tasmania (Australia) and Adjunct Professor of Stage and Space at Aalto University (Finland). Focusing on the intersection between the spatial, visual and performing arts, her creative work, teaching and research incorporate scenographic, interior, exhibition and installation design as well as a specialisation in theatre architecture. Dr Hannah sits on several editorial and academic boards and has contributed regularly toWorld Stage Design, Performance Studies International and the Prague Quadrennial. Her forthcoming book, Event-Space, investigates how the built environment housing an event is itself an event and an integral driver of experience.

Simon Twose is an award winning architect and Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington. A former Director of postgraduate programmes, he leads a graduate research stream focused on design research, looking particularly at the crossings and transferences between architectural drawing and built space. Twose exhibited his work at the 2012 Venice Biennale. In 2015 Twose exhibited inDrawing is/ Not Building at the Adam Art Gallery and was national curator for the SPACE section of the Prague Quadrennial, PQ15. He is currently an invited PhD candidate in the Reflective Practice Programme at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University.

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