Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Drawing Ghosts: Hauntology and Affect in Architectural Representation
Nic Clear
Thursday 30.11.2023 @17:30-19:00 at BPB506
Nic Clear is a registered architect, author, and curator, he is currently Professor and Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. He was the inaugural Professor for Visionary Cities at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and for over twenty-five years, he has been specialising in the use of the moving image in architectural education.
Clear + Park was formed by Nic Clear and Hyun Jun Park to explore the interdisciplinary boundaries between architecture, film, and installation, they use 3D scanning, animation and to create synthetic immersive architectures.
Synopsis
Hauntology is everywhere in architecture, it pervades the fabric of our cities and the nostalgia of our histories and even in those contemporary areas where we might expect there to be a break from the past, architectures predicated on computational systems have the doubly curved futurity of previous ‘space-age’ stylings, or the ‘biophilic’ legacy of art-nouveau to contend with. The utopian legacy of modernity haunts and taunts current architecture and the contemporary cannot break with the promise of a newness which the architecture of late capitalism can never deliver.
But it is in its representations that architecture finds the greatest abundance of ghosts, as the drawing has always existed in a state of in-betweenness between a promise and a reality, in this lecture Nic Clear will explore the ghosts of architectural representation and how his own drawings and the work of Clear + Park embrace the positive affect of an architectural hauntology.
