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Salon Series: (Black) Sexuality and Space
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
7:00 – 9:00 PM
97 Kenmare Street, New York
With Mario Gooden, Mabel Wilson, and Meredith TenHoor
Azurest South is a little known modernist house by Amaza Lee Meredith, an untrained black woman architect practicing in Virginia from the 1920s onward. The house, designed by Meredith for herself and her partner, stood radically apart from its surroundings.
Salon Series: (Black) Sexuality and Space brings together Mario Gooden, Mabel Wilson, and Meredith TenHoor to discuss the the contemporary resonance of Azurest South, which presents complex negotiations regarding the notions of public and private space and reworks the masculinist guises of modernism.
Prompted by the lines of inquiry opened by Mario Gooden in his newly-released Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity, this Salon Series will discuss architecture, representation, gender, and race as it relates to Azurest South. Placing the house within the context of projects such as Adolf Loos’s House for Josephine Baker, participants will explore how the Azurest South relies on particular tropes and notions of identity to communicate its significance. Participants will question the implications of the project, and ask how it might inform future approaches to spatial practice that address gender and race.
Salon Series: (Black) Sexuality and Space
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
7:00 – 9:00 PM
97 Kenmare Street, New York
With Mario Gooden, Mabel Wilson, and Meredith TenHoor
Azurest South is a little known modernist house by Amaza Lee Meredith, an untrained black woman architect practicing in Virginia from the 1920s onward. The house, designed by Meredith for herself and her partner, stood radically apart from its surroundings.
Salon Series: (Black) Sexuality and Space brings together Mario Gooden, Mabel Wilson, and Meredith TenHoor to discuss the the contemporary resonance of Azurest South, which presents complex negotiations regarding the notions of public and private space and reworks the masculinist guises of modernism.
Prompted by the lines of inquiry opened by Mario Gooden in his newly-released Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity, this Salon Series will discuss architecture, representation, gender, and race as it relates to Azurest South. Placing the house within the context of projects such as Adolf Loos’s House for Josephine Baker, participants will explore how the Azurest South relies on particular tropes and notions of identity to communicate its significance. Participants will question the implications of the project, and ask how it might inform future approaches to spatial practice that address gender and race.