Lecture date: 2010-02-10
Public Occasion Agency
The Public Occasion Agency (POA) has been established as a framework for a new element of the AA’s Public Programme. It aims to expand the field of knowledge at the school through staging events. The nature of the cultural environment is engaged as an energetic force of production. For this reason the POA systematically collaborates with various parts of the wider AA community to actualise a wide, but focused, range of events.
As part of the POA’s institutional enterprise, each event is accompanied by two paper publications, one preview and one review. These will form the basis of the POA public archive.
‘Expeditions in the Lower Lea Valley. Freedom Pass bus rides down Will Alsop’s ‘SuperCity’ highway, the M62 from Liverpool to Hull. How National Socialism in Berlin 1936 provides the working model for New Labour’s culture of surveillance and media control. Post-architectural infill among the Olympic wastelands of Athens.’
Iain Sinclair has lived in (and written about) Hackney in East London since 1969. His prizewinning novels include Downriver, Radon Daughters and, most recently, Dining on Stones. Non-fiction books include Lights Out for the Territory and Edge of the Orison. He has written and presented films for BBC2 and co-directed documentaries with Chris Petit for Channel 4.
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