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Evening Lectures

Embodied Energy

Embodied Energy: Surface Tension

Free Dance Performance and Talks

11 Jul 2008 Free

This exciting new site-specific piece is the result of a unique collaboration between architecture and dance.

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Tableau from Ordet (1955), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

‘Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams’

Vilhelm Hammershøi and Carl Theodor Dreyer

11 Jul 2008

Dr Claire Thomson discusses how Hammershøi’s still, silent paintings and Dreyer’s moving images help us grasp the historical ambition of cinema itself: to embalm time and matter.

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Kengo Kuma portrait

Annual Architecture Lecture

Kengo Kuma: Nature and Architecture

14 Jul 2008 Sold Out

Kengo Kuma: 'I want to create weak buildings ... Many people believe buildings ought to be strong because buildings are expected to safeguard the frail bodies of human beings.'

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Stephen Chambers RA, Multistack (detail). Oil on canvas, 190 × 249 cm. © the artist. Photo: John Bodkin, Dawkins Colour

View of the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght. Joan Miró, 'Personnage', 1970. Takis, 'Signal Eolien (sphères)', 2005 / Collection Fondation Takis-KETE. Alexander Calder, 'Les renforts', 1963. Photo: Jean-Jacques L'Héritier. © Archives Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul (France)

Unknown artist, Mosaic icon of Saint Stephen (detail), c. 1108–1113. Tesserae on stucco, 218 x 118 x 7 cm. National Conservation Area St. Sophia of Kiev