Programmvorschau der Bauhaus ARGUMENTE im Wintersemester 2014/15

Teddy Cruz is an architect and Professor of Public Culture and Urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, where he co-founded the Center for Urban Ecologies with urban curator Kyong Park in 2010; and co-founded the Blum Cross-Border Initiative with political theorist Fonna Forman in 2013. He is also presently a special advisor to the City of San Diego on urban and public initiatives. Teaching and practicing in Tijuana and San Diego, he is internationally recognized for his urban research of the Mexico-USA border, advancing border immigrant neighborhoods as sites of cultural production, from which to rethink urban policy, affordable housing and civic infrastructure. His investigation of this geography of conflict has inspired a practice and pedagogy that emerges from the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research, pedagogy and design production.

Teddy Cruz was born in Guatemala City. He began studying architecture at Rafael Landivar University in Guatemala City and continued his studies at California State Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo with a year of studies spent in Florence, Italy under Christiano Toraldo DiFrancia, founder of avant-garde group Superstudio. He completed his architectural education at Harvard University GSD and established his San Diego research-based architectural practice, estudio teddy cruz in 2000. From 1994 to 2000 he was founding director of the LA/LA Latin America / Los Angeles studio, an experimental workshop at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. From 2000-05, he was Associate Professor of Architecture at Woodbury University, where he began the Border Institute (BI) to further research on cross-border urban dynamics in the San Diego-Tijuana region.

Liz Bachhuber is Professor of Sculpture and Installation at the Faculty of Art and Design, 
Bauhaus-University Weimar. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and studied at the University of Wisconsin. From 1979-83 she studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf on a Fulbright/DAAD grant, and was a „Meisterschülerin“ between 1983-84. Concentrating on sculpture and large-scale installation work she was a founding member of the studio cooperative Ratherstrasse 25 in Düsseldorf 1981-87. In 1984 with a travel grant from the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, she spent a year in Rome and received a grant Kunstfonds in Bonn. 1988 she received the Emerging Artist Reward of the City of Düsseldorf. 1987 to 1989 she returned to the USA to live and work in New York at P.S. 1 Studio Residency Program. 1990 to 1991 she received a grant to work from the National Endowment for the Arts, USA.

After a guest professorship at the Art Academy in Münster in 1992 she became a founding member of the Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus-University in 1993. In 2001 she founded the English-language, international MFA-Programm „Public Art and New Artistic Strategies“ with the support of the DAAD and ran the program until 2011. Her ongoing research focuses on the found object in art and the global implications of consume and garbage: „Das Müll Projekt“ in 1993; „Flottsam and Jetsam“ 2001 in collaboration with the Chair for Waste Management, and „Entrop(H)y: Garbage and Art“ 2011 in collaboration with the chair „Biotechnology in the Resource Economy“ are long-running interfaculty collaborations between Art and Environmental Engineering.

Since 1980 she has shown her work in the public realm, in solo and group exhibitions in galeries, museums, Kunstvereinen and alternative spaces in Europe, USA and Japan.

Zeit:
Donnerstag, 13. November 2014
19.30 Uhr

Ort:
Audimax in der Universitätsbibliothek
Steubenstraße 6
99423 Weimar