HOW TO RECOVER PRESENCE IN CRISIS

Combining our backgrounds in feminist art and architecture, we construct a blueprint for an alternate universe. To do this, we use our experience of land--desert and ice--and what it has taught us by being with--or without--land. We use science, geometry, philosophy and our will for justice. In this fictional architecture, where angles are replaced by curvatures and where opacity is replaced by translucency, we make room for sun and shade both. Reflecting on such dualities allows us to understand our art and our lives better, allows us to find fluid in-betweens.

Himali Singh Soin is a writer and artist based between London and Delhi. She uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences, entanglements, deep voids, debris, delays, alienation, distance and intimacy. In doing this, she thinks through ecological loss, and the loss of home, seeking shelter somewhere in the radicality of love. Her speculations are performed in audio-visual, immersive environments. Her works have been exhibited from the Shanghai Biennale to the Gasworks here in London. She won the Frieze artist award in 2019 for her moving film - “Entitled ‘we are opposite like that’, the series creates fictional myths for places that lack indigenous communities and legends of their own. “

Aaron Gensler is an architect, educator, and thought leader working in Los Angeles. Recently she formed GenslerClipp, an architecture, design and research practice based in southern California, Operating at the intersection of emergent technological, artistic, and social forces within the landscape of design, GenslerClipp manifests beautiful, innovative, and culturally significant works of architecture, art, and research in pursuit of enhancing and broadening the human experience through design. Prior to GenslerClipp, she has held design positions at a diverse array of firms including Gensler (Los Angeles), Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York), and Active Social Architecture (Kigali, Rwanda). She is currently underway with research for the Eidlitz Travel Fellowship awarded by Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.Aaron earned her Master of Architecture from Cornell University where she was honored with the Alpha Rho Chi Medal.