[spectre] The Barber Shop Summer School - Open Call

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THE BARBER SHOP SUMMER SCHOOL OPEN CALL

*But does it float?*

A summer school at The Barber Shop

28th July – 1stAugust 2014

Deadline for applications: 26th June
All applications should be sent by email to: thebarbershop.lisbon at gmail.com

*Location* The Barber Shop Rua Araujo 5, Lisboa.


*In the peak of summ**er, **The Barber Shop invites you to an intensive
programme dedicated to the investigation of geophilosophy and processes of
mattering.*


*By inquiring into how matter functions as a time capsule or a black box,
this programme reflects on our comprehension of geological and planetary
frontiers as tools for communal decision-making. While necessarily probing
the processes of deterritorialisation and subsequent virtualisation that
structure our surroundings, this investigation encompasses also the impact
of inhu**man forces and nonorganic life in the game at play.*


*How do we include invisible cartographies and virtual matter in the
day-to-day human action? Can we recognize the dimension of deep time as
intrinsic to the development of matter, and furthermore of our own cultural
actuality? How do we position ourselves within this Anthropocenic moment?*


*To explore these issues, The Barber Shop invites researchers, writers and
artists to lead a series of lectures and group debates over a week period
The programme also includes a sound performance, a film night and a
collective walk. The sessions will take place daily from 28**th** July to 1*
*st**August, as the afternoon heat fades.*



*Guest speakers*

Adrian Lahoud

Godofredo Pereira

Ben Woodard

Jonathan Saldanha

Joana Rafael

Paulo Crawford



*Description of the lectures:*

*Ungrounded Life: Natural Complicity and the Conditions of Movement*
by *Ben Woodard*

Examining the depth of the material contingencies between the inorganic and
organic registers of the Earth has become commonplace whether in vitalism,
New Materialisms, or Media Archeology. The ramifications of such a
complicity however, are often made safe for humans whether via an abstract
sense of life, affect, or a generic humanist sense of materialism. I wish
to argue that such safety can only ever be methodological, that there can
be no ultimate separation of ourselves from the grounding forces of the
Earth. Through the work of FWJ von Schelling I will argue that an unbound
notion of nature allows for a more rigorous articulation of an inhumanism
than the strategies mentioned above. This seminar will examine how the
geological and the biological (as articulated by Schelling) leads to a
naturalistic inhumanism that is a consequence of, and not an exception to,
the naturalness of human beings and human thoughts. B.W.


*Underground Fetishism*
by *Godofredo Pereira*

This lecture is an investigation into the underground as a planetary
frontier. Focusing a series of resource intensive territories - from the
Niger Delta in Nigeria, to the Orinoco Oil Belt in Venezuela and the
Atacama Desert in Chile - as paradigmatic cases of an attraction for the
underground, the lecture will trace a series of exhumations (from symbolic
political leaders and victims of genocide, to geological strata and mineral
riches) to unground entangled histories of human rights violations,
environmental destruction and resource extraction that result from the
quest for El Dorado. Foregrounding the fetishistic relation between objects
and the territories of which they are evidence, manifest in the
contemporary emergence of geoforensic practices, this lecture will show how
exhumations have become increasingly central to the constitution of new
territorial imaginations. G.P.


*Floating Bodies*
by *Adrian Lahoud*

 (synopsis to be announced).


*'Mutually Assured Survival' and the reserves of future catastrophe*
by *Joana Rafael*

This talk will examine reserve realities of the nuclear and their
proliferation in an ever more extensive network, that envelops other
activities and extends towards a permanent, unified and world-scale
techno-sphere. These nuclear reserves will be explored in relation to an
eschatological economy of salvation that governs attempts to predict,
contain and even eradicate the risk of a catastrophic crisis, and the great
socio-political, technocratic and cultural frameworks built around this. A
specific focus will fall on how their architecture is developed in relation
to the governance of risk, being defined by constraints that aim to manage
the future and *fix *natural and historical time, drawing a horizon line
that encloses and protects spatial and temporal integrity in order to
prevent any contamination that threatens it. The talk will examine how
these architectural measures attempt to construct a *temetos*, an
autonomous world, set apart and held in forced stasis. J.R.


*Vibrational Mediations*
by *Jonathan Saldanha*

Presentation and listening session taking on some aspects from Jonathan
Saldanha's work, navigating into the realms of resonant choir
constructions, visceral mediation of space, black matter and intra-cranial
Dub. The conversation will be followed by a listening session operated in a
live dub situation were the different pieces are put together to invoke the
sonic membranes that connect them. J.S.


*Past and Future of the Universe: the presence of dark matter and the role
of dark energy in the expansion of the universe*
by *Paulo Crawford*

If general relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity, is correct, most of
the universe is dark. Almost a third of the universe seems to be made of
dark matter, some sort of heavy invisible stuff that swarms around
galaxies, whose observational evidence is overwhelming. The other
two-thirds is in the form of an ethereal ingredient, dark energy, which is
repulsive in a way that accelerates the present expansion of the universe.
Only about 4 percent of the stuff of the universe is made of the familiar
atoms. Should we conclude that we are reaching the limits of general
relativity and Einstein’s theory is beginning to fail? How all this could
affect our notions time and space? P.C.



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*Keywords*

deep time, processes of mattering, climatology, territorial fiction, opaque
topologies, geophilosophy, sonic resonance, dark matter.


*Location *The Barber Shop Rua Araujo 5, Lisboa.


*Fee *100 Euros. Housing solutions may be suggested for foreign applicants.


*Material for application*

CV + portfolio (or 1page description of recent work and research focus).

All applications should be sent by email to: thebarbershop.lisbon at gmail.com


*Deadline: 26**th** June*

Invited applicants will be announced in the end of June by email





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*Biographies of guest speakers:*


*Adrian Lahoud* is an architect and teacher working on concepts of scale
and their architectural, urban, and geopolitical consequences. Currently he
is leading the M.Arch Urban Design at The Bartlett, University College
London and an external advisor at Projective Cities at the Architectural
Association, London. He joined the Centre for Research Architecture,
Goldsmiths in 2011 as director of the MA programme and research fellow on
the Forensic Architecture ERC project. Prior to this he was Director of the
Urban Design Masters at the University of Technology Sydney.


 *Godofredo Pereira *is an architect and researcher. He is currently
completing his PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths
University of London. His research Underground Fetishism investigates
territorial conflicts within the planetary race for underground resources,
with a particular focus on the parallel exhumations of minerals and
political leaders as re-imaginations of the body politik. Together with
lawyer Alonso Barros and as part of Forensic Architecture he is
coordinating the Atacama Desert Project, a geo-forensic analysis of human
rights and environmental violations in the Atacama Desert in Chile. He is
also the coordinator of History and Theory at the MArch Urban Design
program at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, co-founder and editor
of Detritos, a journal of art and critical theory, and editor of the book
Savage Objects, INCM, 2012.


*Ben Woodard *is a PhD student at the Centre for Theory and Criticism at
Western University. His work focuses on the philosophy of FWJ von
Schelling, naturalism, pragmatism, and contemporary continental philosophy.
He has published two monographs: Slime Dynamics with Zer0 Books and On an
Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy with Punctum. He also writes
on horror film, weird fiction, and philosophies of pessimism.


 *Joana Rafael* is an architectural practitioner based in London and Porto.
Having graduated from the University Institute of Architecture in Venice
(UIAV), she has continued her studies through the Metropolis Master Program
at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) and the MA
programme in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College,
London, where she is currently completing a PhD in Visual Cultures. She has
been a recipient of several funding bodies including the Portuguese FCT.
Joana is a contributor to San Rocco and other European architectural
publications and a Associate and Visiting Lecturer (Critical and Contextual
Studies) at Central Saint Martins School of Communication, Product and
Spatial Design and Canterbury, University for the Creative Arts. Current
research is focused upon an expanded view of systems architecture, its
logistical, aesthetical, epistemological and spatial history and
applications. She is interested in what ways can we *imagine *architecture
exceeding itself?


*Jonathan Uliel Saldanha *is a producer and composer, concerned with the
relations of sound with its resonance, negative territories, echo and
recursivity, pre-language, visceral voice, subsonic frequencies and
intra-cranial-dub. Saldanha operates sonically in the projects HHY & The
Macumbas, Fujako, Mécanosphère and Beast Box among others. Founding member
of SOOPA, a proteiform, multicephalous, sound & visual laboratory with
headquarters in Porto, Portugal. In 2012 he co-curated the program "SONORES
- sound/space/signal" for Guimarães European Capital of Culture and
composed the piece KHŌROS ANIMA for mixed choir and empty resonant space.
In 2014 Saldanha presented SANCTA VISCERA TUA, a sonic and scenic piece
constructed from the archetypes present in the structure of a Via Sacra, a
vibrational action of sound, gesture, light and voice. His music has been
released under the labels SOOPA, Ångström Records, Wordsound, Rotorelief,
SILO and Tzadik


*Paulo Crawford *is a retired professor of physics at the Universidade de
Lisboa (UL) and a researcher at Centro de Astronomia e Astrofísica of UL.
Tapada da Ajuda, Edifício Leste. He studied Gravitation at King’s College
University in London with Prof. John Taylor, and completed the first PhD
within this field by Lisbon University in 1987. Successively he created a
research center for Gravitation and Cosmology, which has been active since
the late 80s, first in the Nuclear Physics Center of Lisbon, and from 2000
in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Center.

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