Kay Fisker – An Infrastructure of Encounter
Exhibition in the context of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018), which explored the work of the Danish functionalist architect Kay Fisker through a series of analogical spatial installations, and accompanying documentation of three of his seminal built works.
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-22-0000
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- 16th Venice Architecture Biennale
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- May
- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
- URL
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https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2018/partecipants/clancy-moore-architects
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Kay Fisker – A Space of Encounter was an installation curated for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 by Andrew Clancy, in collaboration
with fellow architectural researcher and studio director Colm Moore. The installation explored the work of the Danish functionalist
architect Kay Fisker through a series of analogical spatial installations and accompanying documentation of three of his seminal built
works. Once the Biennale closed, the installation toured to the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, IR; and VISUAL, Carlow, IR, 2019.
The research emerged in response to an invitation from the curators of the Venice Architecture Biennale, Shelley McNamara and Yvonne
Farrell. They asked Clancy and Moore to examine, and reflect on, the work of an overlooked figure from architectural history, and to
make their ideas physically manifest as part of the Close Encounter section of the main exhibition, to be sited in the central space of the
Italian Pavilion.
Clancy and Moore examined the Danish functionalist modernist architect Fisker, whose work remains under-appreciated beyond
Denmark. In particular, they sought to surface Fisker’s ability to make an infrastructure of encounter – a socially engaging architecture of
minimal means. The exhibition took the form of a minimalist reading room, formed of three chairs, each one an expression of Fisker’s
ideas in his seminal works. When seated in these chairs, visitors to the exhibition could examine the original research publication, specially
prepared for the exhibition by Clancy and Moore, about three of Fisker’s works, and featuring original drawings, photographs and texts
by Clancy, Moore and a group of their architecture students.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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