Join us for a series of Discursive Talks as part of Ilona Sagar’s Fellowship exhibition Other Actors. Each session will be held in the exhibition space. In the first hour you are invited to watch the Other Actors film (59’40” minutes) followed by a discursive talk with invited guest speakers.
Wed 16 July 6-7pm Film Screening / 7-8pm Discursive Talk
Borders, Bodies, Viral Landscapes with Pranabashis Haldar, Marsha Rosengarten and Jana Scholze.
Other Actors is a new, three-channel film piece by Stanley Picker Fellow Ilona Sagar, exploring the links between bodies and buildings, health and architecture through the lens of the Paimio Sanatorium in Finland. Designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto and completed between 1929 and 1933, the sanatorium represents a radical shift in the design for health. Conceived as an “instrument for healing” the Aaltos’ proposed an architecture designed not for the verticality of the healthy body but for the horizontal perspective of the sick. At the time of filming, the sanatorium is at a significant moment in its transition from hospital to a new purpose. As restoration progresses, the film examines its status as a building in flux.
