An annual lecture on transdisciplinary practice organised by the Architecture Foundation. Diller Scofidio + Renfro have been exploring the intersection of architecture, technology, art and performance for over 30 years, and are celebrated as one of the world’s most innovative and unorthodox practices. Liz Diller, the co-founder and co-principal of the practice, will be talking with artist Christian Marclay and exploring the porosities and possibilities of architecture, the city, perception, visual culture, and more.
Diller and Marclay both studied at Cooper Union, New York City, in the late 1970s, and swiftly emerged to become dynamic voices within New York’s experimental art scene of the time, materializing ideas and synthesizing disciplines in installations and multi-media performances. For both practitioners mediatisation, technology, performance and the notion of the audience were topics for transformation, play and dispute.
In 2002 the pair collaborated on Diller + Scofidio’s Blur Building, for the 2002 Swiss Expo. A non-building composed of fog, an architecture of atmosphere, floating on Lake Neuchâtel, the pavilion, described by Diller as ‘a spectacle with nothing to see,’ was accompanied by an immersive acoustic installation by Christian Marclay.