Event overview
Graduating Exhibition by MAs in the Centre for Research Architecture
This year has been full of interruptions.
Strikes, walkouts, and unfolding crises both near and far have marked our progression through the academic calendar. Studies were paused as we joined protests against the genocide in Gaza, censorship in Germany, and far-right violence in the UK. While this exhibition was being conceived, Goldsmiths staff were on strike as more than 130 members of faculty faced layoffs from an irresponsible restructuring programme. The sites of these struggles became fields of study in their own right, informing individual research and the formation of new activist groups. Pedagogy became practice; practice became pedagogy.
For the philosopher Henri Bergson, time could not be measured in individual moments, as they pass too quickly to be quantified. Instead, we might read the passage of time in the ways that it changes us. The interruptions that cast their shadows across the year were sometimes agonising yet proved formative to our evolution. Confronted by seemingly perpetual crises, we sought new modes of thinking and being in the breach.
Interruptions foregrounds the earth-shattering geopolitical events, academic milestones, and traumas both personal and collective that have kept time throughout this unconventional year. These connect New Cross to distant parts of the globe, just as this exhibition seeks to forge networks of solidarity across time and space. Barriers and spatial disjunctures point towards other entryways through which new relationships can be drawn and connections made. Gaps in knowledge can be sources of evidence. This is a space of your own making, just as this year has been of ours.
Some roads may lead nowhere. The accompanying publication Dead Ends follows paths we have travelled down without necessarily reaching their intended destination. These journeys have been counterintuitively productive: not all dead ends are interruptions, and conversely, not all interruptions are dead ends.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 26 Sep 2024 |
6:00pm - 9:00pm Preview & Publication Launch event |
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| 27 Sep 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 28 Sep 2024 |
10:30am - 7:00pm Behind Enemy Lines One-Day Symposium |
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| 29 Sep 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 30 Sep 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 1 Oct 2024 |
12:00pm - 6:00pm There will be a walk through from 1-5pm with teaching staff and students as part of the assessment. |
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| 2 Oct 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 3 Oct 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm |
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