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Executive director and chief curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture Eva Franch i Gilabert discusses the need for contemporary forms of radical practice in a world dominated by consumer culture, user experience oriented interfaces and disarticulated expertise.

lecture: Eva FRANCH i GILABERT, “Corporate Avant Garde and the Return of Disruption.”
Tuesday, 01/28
6.30 p.m. / School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10011

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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore 21-layer, fabric-and-latex spacesuits crafted by seamstresses from the assembly line of Playtex, maker of bras and girdles. Nicholas de Monchaux will tell the story of the 21-layer spacesuit, and how it relates to, among other things, eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior’s New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK’s carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA’s Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning.

Nicholas de MONCHAUX, “Fashioning Apollo”
Wednesday, 01/09
6.30 pm / School of Visual Arts, Design Criticism
136 West 21st Street, Floor 2
New York, NY 10011

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