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California College of the Arts (SF)

November 8 - November 8, 2010

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1111 Eighth Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Presented as part of CCA’s Architecture Lecture Series and Graduate Studies Lecture Series Francois Roche is a cofounder of R&Sie(n), an architectural practice based in Paris. The firm’s work is simultaneously organic, biological, and critical, seeking to articulate real and fictional geographic situations as well as narrative structures that can transform them. R&Sie(n) unfolds its protocols through the restaging of different kinds of contemporary relationships: aesthetic, mechanical, computational, and even artificial. It employs speculations and fictions as strategies to un-alienate operative modes and infiltrate media culture in order to subvert its conventions. The group uses contemporary technology in experiments that alchemically mix Eros and Thanatos to develop deliberately ambiguous scenarios fusing realities that seem immiscible. Using synthetic devices, they work out possibilities somewhere between attractions and aversions, combining obstacles and potential, waste material and efflorescence, threats and protections, mechanical powers and natural forces. In addition to its architectural practice, R&Sie(n) works through New-Territories.com, a website and research organization dedicated to “research as speculation, fiction as practice, and practice as lifespan.” CCA San Francisco campus, 1111 Eighth Street, Timken Lecture Hall