Talks beyond borders amplify Chronic Conditions’ exposure

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The theme of Chronic Conditions: Body and Building, the current Triennale exhibition at Palácio Sinel de Cordes, has been opened to discussion abroad, in two conversations with Anna Ulrikke Andersen, in November 2021.

The exhibition's curator has been focusing her work on architecture experienced by people with chronic illnesses using cinema, sculpture and essay writing as research methods. The exhibition that revisits the architecture collections of Future Architecture Platform members is thus not only a corollary of that course, but also the axis that sets the tone for the conversations it inhabits.

Old buildings can be disobedient: new residents move in, materials decay, and the neighbourhood changes over time. Could this disobedience be explored sonically? Over the past two years, Anna Ulrikke Andersen and five other researchers from Oxford University have been developing the Disobedient Buildings project, which explores how people today experience everyday life in aging blocks of flats. The resulting event, Disobedient Sounds, is a site-specific sound walk, exhibition and seminars taking place at the Van Etten Gallery, in Oslo, from November 12 to 28, 2021, with November 13 dedicated to a conversation between Audun Kjus, curator of the Norsk Folkemuseum, and Anna Ulrikke Andersen.

On the other hand, architecture and disability set the tone more directly at the talk between Anna Ulrikke Andersen and Jos Boys, architectural theorist and one of the founders of the feminist collective Matrix. The event begins with the screening of the film Architecture Beyond Sight (2019, 17 minutes), part of Chronic Conditions, followed by the conversation led by Victoria Bugge Øye, curator of the National Museum - Architecture, in Oslo. ROM, an experimental platform for the development and dissemination of architecture and art, hosts this event in Oslo on November 25. They have collaborated with Anna Ulrikke Andersen on projects that aim to open up the field of architecture to people with chronic illnesses or disabilities, something that is still uncommon.