Addressing the Audience Directly or Not, Sometimes with a Soundtrack 3/5 Victoria Camblin, Mark Cousins, Tuomas Toivonen

Image: Woody Harrelson’s character in Indecent Proposal (1993) delivering Louis Kahn’s famous ‘brick’ lecture.

Lecture Format presents the presentational aspect of art, the comic didactic in PowerPoint, the tragedy of serious posturing, and Utopian visions recited to the rhythm of a sweaty dance-floor.”

Victoria Camblin is a writer, a doctoral candidate at Cambridge University who specialises in Georges Bataille, and editor of 032c magazine

Mark Cousins is Director of History and Theory at the AA, and currently Guest Professor at South Eastern University Nanjing, China

Tuomas Toivonen is an architect, urbanist, founder of NOW in Helsinki, and in 2010 released the 12” architecture record-book Urbanism in the House

www.myspace.com/tuomastoivonen

Further Format events:

8 July

Library format
Repositories, books in film and Abby Warburg’s shelving system
With Charles Arsène-Henry (writer and editor), Geoffrey Streatfield  (actor), Anna Madeley (actor) and François Quiviger (Assistant Librarian, Warburg Institute and writer)

11 July
Anniversary format
The numerology of remembering the past and revising history
Guest edited by sexymachinery (Shumon Basar, Dominik Kremerskothen, Patrick Lacey, Dagmar Radmacher, Benjamin Reichen, Kajsa Stahl, Maki Suzuki)