| ABOUT THE CURATORS Esther Anatolitis is General Manager (CEO) of Melbourne Fringe. She also serves the board of the Arts Industry Council (Victoria) as Deputy Chair. Esther has worked on various cross-disciplinary projects all over the world, across a range of media. She is a former General Manager of SYN, Craft Victoria and Express Media. Previous board roles include the Emerging Writers’ Festival and the Antipodes Festival. Her academic background is in European philosophy, and she also holds the postgraduate Zertifikat BauhausDessau (Dessau, Germany) for her work on the architectural "Serve City" project. Previously Esther has managed public programs for the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy (where she first presented the collaborative "Philosophy as public art" workshop), and has developed arts and talks programming for SBS Radio. Across all such involvements is an abiding interest in those special spatial and cultural configurations that are responsible for the emergence of the new. Dr Hélène Frichot lectures in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT, specialising in theory. Her first discipline is architecture, however Hélène holds a PhD in philosophy, with a specific emphasis on continental philosophy. While she is well versed in architectural theory from the 1960s onwards, as well as empiricism (David Hume), phenomenology (Gaston Bachelard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty), feminist and body theory (Judith Butler, Moira Gatens, etc.), post-structuralist and deconstructivist philosophical theory, the focus of Hélène's research relies predominantly on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s creative philosophy. More recently she has been developing ideas toward a politics of space, together with an ethico-aesthetics for architecture in a (post)digital age. Toward this end the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, as well as Judith Butler have proven to be of especial importance. Chelle Macnaughtan first studied at the Elder Conservatorium of Music before completing degrees in interior design and later architecture with first class honours. Prior to commencing her own practice in 2002, Chelle had worked in other architecture and interior design offices since 1994. She is currently concluding a PhD in Architecture by Project in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT, with a topic involving composer John Cage’s indeterminacy and certain theory of Jacques Derrida and Umberto Eco. Since commencing the PhD, Chelle has been the recipient of a Bailleu Research Scholarship, an Australian Postgraduate Award, and in 2005, she became the inaugural RAIA Lysaght Scholar, which has enabled her to undertake various invitational work in France, Toronto, and Belfast. Her PhD project work is being completed with a speculative architectural proposal of multi-configurable transportable performance spaces for French theatre master Compagnie Philippe Genty, for whom she was invited to prepare a collection of architectural chance based choreographic scores for performance in 2006.
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2007 PROGRAM – 2006 PROGRAM – 2005 PROGRAM Architecture + Philosophy series provides a unique opportunity for a space of exchange between the two disciplines. While what we provide is a local space – Melbourne practitioners on Melbourne issues – the Architecture and Philosophy series welcomes speakers from any discipline to engage with questions of contemporary urbanism, planning, technology, space, system, design, distribution and other issues in the productive overlap between the two disciplines. We curate a diverse range of presentations, from research students and established academics to architecture and planning practitioners, policy makers, public artists and those working in the world between theory, buildings and the city. For all enquiries, email the curators: Esther Anatolitis and Hélène Frichot. New to the series as guest curator in 2008 is Chelle Macnaughtan. |
