"Listening There: Scenes from Ghana": Sept 23

Thursday, September 23, 7pm

Studio-X New York, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

Free and open to the public

Panel discussion, featuring:

IKEM STANLEY OKOYE, University of Delaware

FELICITY SCOTT, Columbia GSAPP

PETER TOLKIN, Peter Tolkin Architecture

MABEL WILSON, Columbia GSAPP

Panel accompanies an exhibition of photographs and videos by SideProjects (a collaboration between Mabel Wilson and Peter Tolkin), "Listening There: Scenes from Ghana" cuts a spatial and temporal section through the west African nation’s architecture, cities, peoples, and social spaces. Wilson and Tolkin's multi-media project explores the genesis and impact of modernity, from the hulking masses of coastal slave forts to the modernist architecture that signaled the nation-building agendas of Ghana's post-colonial regimes.

As architects increasingly operate within an interconnected world, "Listening There" considers the difficulty of navigating across cultural difference. The photographs and videos tune into to the contemporary cultural resonances emanating from the cell-phone kiosks, teeming markets, and crowded thoroughfares of Accra, Kumasi, and Cape Coast.

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