Tomaso De Luca will focus on architecture as a mise en scène capable of ordering and exhibiting its content, of responding to desire or even of engendering it. In the postwar West, the processes of spectacularization and performativity, traditionally characteristic of the architecture of public buildings, spread to private residences as well, providing a glimpse into the rise of media technology as we know it today. The talk will examine the role of the single man, and the correlation between gender, desire, art, and architecture.

Tomaso De Luca is the Cy Twombly Italian Fellow in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome.

The shoptalk will be given in English.