EASA Reality 2021 - issue 3

КИШОБРАН The Real Umbrella.

Kragujevac, 2021

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TO-NITE: 19:00-20:00 [right after dinner]

The most IMPORTANT

NC MEETING in DECADES

will take place

This is an official announcement.

This is not a joke.

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If your national team doesn’t have an NC or if one is not present, make sure to send at least one person per country to attend the meeting!

Important information for the future of EASA will be discussed.

ANYONE ELSE INTERESTED is welcome to attend!

Let’s make this meeting count! Let’s build the future of EASA -

TOGETHER!

LOST & FOUND: Last night, many people lost their voices. Some might still be looking for their dignity. But don’t let that stop you; this evening you might find yourself!

Express yourself and make this evening the best one yet!

WARNING: danger of tripping!

Many couples were found serenely spooning all over the school surroundings last night; should the people in question choose to repeat this tonight, be careful not to fall over them! Many are still in need of a chiropractor after carrying the pyramid (as well as the weight of Reality) on their shoulders; so let’s keep our injuries at an appropriate minimum!

Yeah, but where is the Archive?

A dear old friend unfortunately unable to come this year is certainly the physical EASA Archive. Slowly but surely gathered, catalogued and scanned over the last four years, this collection of documents mapping the history of EASA from the very first workshops in 1981 used to make regular appearances at the gatherings, laid out on a table and accessible to all. One could easily get lost in the 40 years of EASA history, looking for the source of EASA spirit in the ever-shifting tides of societal change... Anyway, we’ll put up a pop-up EASA Archive in the hallway very soon, so do come and check it out! The Arhive is the memory of EASA; the Archive makes its story complete.

EASA 1986 (Architetture Latenti, Torino) - diagram from a wokshop

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There is a model for queer space.

noun colloq. (freq. derogatory). A homosexual; esp. a male homosexual. adj. Strange, odd, peculiar, eccentric.

Also: of questionable character; suspicious, dubious. verb. trans. Originally: to make a fool of, ridicule; to swindle, cheat; to get the better of. Later also: to puzzle, flummox, confound, baffle, to put out of order; to spoil

EASA as queer space?

While the heteronormative functions with the assumption that sex, gender, sexuality and gender roles align, queerness embodies a fluidity that allows for operation outside of this norm. The queering of architecture must focus on reflecting the fluidity of the various layers of identity we all express or repress. (...)

What I am calling queer space is that which appropriates certain aspects of the material world in which we all live, composes them into an unreal or artificial space, and uses this counterconstruction to create freespace of orgasm that dissolves the material world. (...)

The architectural historian Tony Vidler has proposed that we read architecture in terms of the three ‘scenes’ of classical theater. The first scene is that of tragedy. It is where important stories are told in a setting of classical architecture. They always end in death, as the immutable laws triumph over human frailty.

The second scene is the one we make every day. It is a comic scene where the vagaries of daily life confront us with ourselves, only to let us loose ourselves in laughter before we go back to our business. Its forms are those of the vernacular.

The third scene is more difficult to describe. It is the scene of myth, of stories of which we do not know whether they are true or not, where the everyday and the miraculous mix. It takes place in a mixture of the man-made and the natural, the real and the imagined. Ruins and trees create a framework that shows us our own society in a mirror that reveals both its

— queer movement protests in the 90s

Queer

I will propose queer space as a kind of third scene, a third place for the third sex, that functions as a counterarchitecture, appropriating, subverting, mirroring and choreographing the orders of everyday life in new and liberating ways.

I do not mean to imply that only samesex love can create such a third nature, or that it is the only way to escape from the restrictions of our buildings and the social structures they make real, but only that queer space, because of the particular role we have assigned same-sex love within our society, offers a clear model for such an architectural counterartifice. I will call queer space any space that establishes such a free and real space, no matter the sexual preferences of the persons making it or using it. I will call queer all spaces i think trace a way toward a third nature.

essentialist notions of who we are and how we should be treating each other. Who the fuck is queer? It’s all a designation we give, and I think that this designation should come along with this active un-learning and re-creating process. At least that’s what I hope. And really, I think I’ve been in a lot of spaces that were queer as fuck and didn’t sound a thing like what I just wrote.

— Katie Goldstein, Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy

Drag and architecture?

— Aaron Betsky, Queer Space In a response to a question about the definition of queer space, Yana Walton, an economic justice organizer and a lay historian of queer homes and lesbian lands, responded with: A queer space is never finished, but it is an active process created by the shifting identities inside and around it to undo racist, sexist, classist, capitalist, cissexist, colonialist and

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— Serlio’s three scenes: Tragic, comic and satyric

temporality and its order, its natural beauty, and its artifice, all wrapped around nymphs, satyrs and other hybrid creatures.

ACROSS: 2. everyone’s favourite liquid 4. Eleni Foureira’s favourite classical element 10. the thing architects crave most 11. not yet found 13. a planar downward facing cross section of a building, usually set one meter above the floor plane 14. Linkin Park’s highest charting single 15. lacking statistical correlation 16. the oldest alcoholic drink 19. to think too much or for too long 21. mode of transport utilised by EASA 1997 22. it’s above your head 24. the _ will set you free 25. the sexiest, as well as the most common musical instrument (according to numerous polls) 29. a sustainable building method using soil

31. everyone’s favourite kinky cephalopod 32. Ireland’s best-selling solo artist 35. an assembled load-bearing structure that behaves as a single object 36. last name of Kourtney Kardashian’s children DOWN: 1. it’s funny cause it’s...

3. a subgenre of contemporary pop music made in the West Balkans, initially developed during the 80s and the 90s 5. theme of EASA 1991 (USSR) 6. country with the most islands in Europe 7. light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation 8. ...makes the heart grow fonder 9. big white thing in the sky 12. the temple blown up in the 17th century 17. looks like a plus sign 18. the planet you’re on

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20. identity document used in The Fifth Element 21. I knew you were _ when you walked in 23. a spicy yellow condiment 26. Mass for the Dead 27. a statement, question or phrase put forth as a puzzle to be solved

28. very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction 30. emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil 33. a person with whom one is friendly, despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry 34. sometimes it blows around you

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— Sarah Katherine Roszler, DRAG QUEENS, ARCHITECTS AND THE SKIN

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— Divine

Towards a queer future?

‘Lipstick on a Pig’. The project proposes an architecture of a bespoke and new queer domestic, whilst parodying its heteronormative counterpart. Questioning traditional domestic spaces which fail to accommodate more fluid, alternative definitions of domesticity, it draws on the aesthetic, social and domestic attitudes of the drag community. Drag in this context not only acts as a vehicle to accelerate this fluidity, but also as a strong visual sign of this deconstruction of the wider heteronormative model of living that is held today.

— Andrew Riddel, Bartlett School of Architecture

Queerness is not yet here.

Queerness is an ideality.

Put another way, we are not yet queer, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness’s domain.

— José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia

Time and reality are closely related. For humans, reality is embedded in the flow of time. As we shall see, the irreversibility of time is itself closely connected to entropy.

To make time flow backward we would have to overcome an infinite entropy barrier. [...] Whatever we call reality, it is revealed to us only through the active construction in which we participate. [...] Communication is at the base of what probably is the most irreversible process accesible to the human mind, the progressive increase of knowledge.

Not long ago, a very private confession booth opened right next to our chapel. You may be wondering where these places are?

O ye of little faith! So right at the end of the ground floor hallway, behind the indoor stage, these mystical places of worship can be found, built in collaboration with the Neotribe (and quite possibly unintentionally set up as fuck rooms).

Come by. Confess your sins. If no one is present, you can find yet another book waiting to be filled with your dreams and ideas - but mostly sins. Be as anonymous as you like. Reveal your inmost self. The community needs it. You know you want it.

And please clean up after using the room.

— Prigogine & Stengers: “Order Out of Chaos” All complex societies have media inasmuch as they use materials to manage time, space and power. [...] Kittler’s point, that culture was always already a procedure of data processing, follows confidently in Innis’ path. Kittler’s word was Kultur, a term that can mean both “culture” and “civilization” — and, never shy about grand claims, he certainly ment to include both.

— John Durham Peters: “The Marvelous Clouds” {this online workshop reguralry posts on their ig: @cloud.workshop_easa}

This is not a map of pyramids in Kragujevac; this is a map of ALL THE SECOND HAND SHOPS around town.

Thank you guys for making it! Use it wisely and have fun!

how

GIANT

is the puppet?

come and see 11:45 tomorrow