09.18.15
WORKSHOP WITH ANRI SALA

In partnership with the Department of Languages and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at PUC-Rio, DAU organized in September 2015 the workshop "play, cut, mute" with the Albanian artist Anri Sala.
 
The workshop was the first result of the cooperation agreement recently signed between the PUC-Rio and the Moreira Salles Institute and included undergraduate and graduate students of Architecture and Languages of the University.
 
The study object was the Housing Project Marques de São Vicente (known as "Minhocão"), designed by architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy in the 1950s, according to the principles and ideals of modernist architecture, and cut through by an acoustic tunnel in the 1970s.
 
Along with Anri Sala and Prof. Ana Luiza Nobre, of DAU, students organized into interdisciplinary groups, explored the complex - which is adjacent to the campus of PUC-Rio in Gávea - and a developed poetic readings of the space/sound relationships with the focus on three themes: city, housing and failure.
 
In the photo, students, faculty and some residents of Minhocão walk on the acoustic tunnel, one of the strongest moments of the workshop, which also involved a preparatory seminar with the participation of Heloisa Espada (IMS), Danusa Depes (Department of Languages), João Masao Kamita (Department of History) and Luiza Baldan (EAV-Parque Lage) in addition to the profs Karl-Erik and Ana Scholhammer Kiffer (Department of Languages).
 
About Anri Sala:

Anri Sala was born in 1974 in Tirana, Albania. He currently lives and works in Berlin. He began his studies in painting at the National Academy of Arts Tyranny and continued his education in France, where he attended the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains. His work spans multiple media such as video, photography and installation. Intervista his video, Finding the Words (1998), he has received numerous awards, including the Best Documentary at the International Festival of Cinema Brooklyn (2002) in New York. His work has integrated highly relevant exhibitions in the international contemporary art scene, as Manifesta (2000), the Venice Biennale (1999, 2001 and 2003) and the São Paulo Biennial (2002 and 2010), as well as shows in institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2012), Serpentine Gallery, London (2011), and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / Main, Germany (2010), among others.

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