Lecture Series: Venice Fellowships Programme Launch

 

Collage of images of venice

Venice Architecture Biennale 2023

Date: Wednesday 12th October 2022, 1.00pm Reilly lecture room 

Programme times approximate

13.00  Introduction to Programme sandy britton

13.10  Fellow 2022 Rim Yassine Kassab – (experience supporting the  work of British Artist  Sonia Boyce )

13.30 Fellow 2022  Razan Simbawa – ( experience and research )

13.50 Application Process

14.00 Questions

Click here to watch a video of the event

We are pleased to launch the application process for Venice Fellowship programme 2023 and to celebrate the work of our two Fellows of 2022.

Rim Yasine Kassab and Razan Simbawa both recently spent a month in Venice as Fellows supporting the award winning  work of Artist Sonia Boyce and developing their own research . https://venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/feeling-her-way 

La Biennale Venezia is an important international platform for debate discussion and showcasing  which takes place on Venice Island alternating between Art Biennale (2022 was its 59th)and  Architecture ( 2023 will be its 18th ) . It is attended by thousands of visitors  between the months of May and November during which time the Venice international Film festival takes place each September .

Through the Venice Fellowship Programme Liverpool School of Architecture provides the opportunity to undertake a month residency in Venice during the Biennale months  to help invigilate the British Pavilion’s exhibition  in Venice’s Giardini  and undertake supported research of a small Venice / Biennale  based  project of choice.  

LSA has Partnered with the British Council to sponsor two students to become Fellows during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 .

This opportunity at LSA  is uniquely open to MArch4 and PHD students and our event is to introduce the programme and to hear from  former fellows about their experience and their research

More details about the programme can be found here http://www.britishcouncil.org/venicebiennale

Venice’s 18th International Architecture exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2023, is to be curated by architecture academic Lesley Lokko

"Lesley Lokko is the founder of the African Futures Institute, established in Accra, Ghana, in 2020 as a postgrad school of architecture and public events platform. In 2015 she founded the Graduate School of Architecture in Johannesburg. She has taught in the UK, in the US, Europe, Australia and Africa. She is the recipient of a number of awards for contributions to architectural education."

https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2023

Some of you will have heard her guest lecture 'Sacred Cows' here at LSA during 2021 the recording of which can be found here.

The 2023 British Pavilion selected curatorial team is Jayden Ali, Joseph Henry, Meneesha Kellay and Sumitra Upham.

‘The exhibition will explore non-extractive material culture­- revealing how diasporic craft and material cultures can help foster a more sustainable future for British architecture, built on principles of care and equity over extraction and exploitation.’

Please note the Fellowship Application process stage one (LSA) will be open until end December 2022

Enquiries to sandy.britton@liverpool.ac.uk, application forms will be made available post launch.

Images: Images: Sonia Boyce, pavilion launch; Rima Yassine–Kassab, inside ‘feeling her way’ exhibition; LSA at the Venice Biennale