Screening of films by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine
Workshop with Erin Besler and Ian Besler

On this occasion, Homo Urbanus, a series of seven films created by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, will be projected. The films take the spectator thoughi the cities of Seoul, Bogotà, Naples, Saint Petersburg, Rabat, Tokyo, and Kyoto, constructing a human landscape along the way.

Erin Besler and Ian Besler will conduct a workshop entitled Some Assembly Required. This project explores the distinction between “work” and “activity” in the context of the Cinque Mostre exhibition by creating a set of interactive fold-and-construct model kits of architectural details in Rome, removed from their context and reconstructed as simple model kits. Visitors are encouraged to contribute to the project and help themselves to their own kit—consisting of printed sheets of paper stock—which anyone from adults to small children, experts to amateurs, can fold and assemble. This project aspires to implicate the processes of construction and assembly, typically kept at a distance or rendered invisible in the context of the gallery, as a central and inextricable component of the installation, while at the same time producing and engaging new audiences in architectural design and production.