[-empyre-] Please welcome "School of Missing Studies' - Katherine Carl and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

[Christina McPhee]

dear -empyre-

Together with Naeem and John we are excited that two new friends can  
join us for this week-- Katherine Carl and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss. I  
just met them in November, in San Diego / Tijuana, where they were  
showing work from their 'Lost Highways' project, in connection with  
the Political Equator conference organized by Teddy Cruz (who  
contributed to -empyre- in September 2007) and others.  Katherine and  
Srdjan's enthusiasm and innovative vision inspired me so much,  
especially as the "Lost Highways' project has a healing or  
transformative aspect.

Please welcome Katherine and Srdjan!


http://www.europelostandfound.net
http://www.schoolofmissingstudies.net



Katherine Carl is an art historian and curator, a founding member of  
School of Missing Studies, and a collaborating curator at NAO (Normal  
Architecture Office). She is writing her PhD on conceptual art of the  
sixties and seventies in the former Yugoslavia in the Department of  
Art History and Criticism at the State University of New York, Stony  
Brook, and currently holds a fellowship from the American Council of  
Learned Societies. For two years in 2005-2006, she was Curator of  
Contemporary Exhibitions at The Drawing Center after her work as  
Assistant Curator there. This follows her work at Dia Art Foundation  
(1999-2003), ArtsLink (1996-1997) and the National Endowment for the  
Arts (1991-1995). Carl taught art history and contemporary culture in  
the Department of Art at New York University (2002-3). She was curator  
of Flipside: ArtsLink at Artists Space (2004) and go_HOME (2001).   
Recent projects include East Coast Europe (2007-8, book forthcoming),  
Yona Friedman: About Cities (2007) at the Drawing Center, Evasions of  
Power conference at University of Pennsylvania and Slought Foundation  
(2007, book forthcoming), Lost Highway Expedition (2006) and the  
resulting Lost Highway Expedition Photobook (2007).



Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss is an architect and founder of NAO (Normal  
Architecture Office) as well as founding member of the School of  
Missing Studies. He is currently faculty at the University of  
Pennsylvania and has recently collaborated with Herzog & de Meuron  
architects in Basel. His book Almost Architecture published by Merz &  
Solitude and kuda.nao addresses architecture vis-à-vis emerging  
democratic processes. He is currently renovating Slought Foundation in  
Philadelphia and is in design process for Stadium Culture in  
collaboration with kuda.org new media centre in Novi Sad to retain  
public spaces left from socialist planning and transform them into  
youth cultural centres. Recent projects include East Coast Europe  
(2007-8, book forthcoming), Yona Friedman: About Cities (2007) at the  
Drawing Center, Evasions of Power conference at University of  
Pennsylvania and Slought Foundation (2007, book forthcoming), Lost  
Highway Expedition (2006) and the resulting Lost Highway Expedition  
Photobook (2007). Jovanovic Weiss is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths  
College, London researching positive aspects of Balkanization. www.thenao.net



-c