Monica Narula and Philip Ursprung

Monica Narula (artist, Raqs Media Collective) and Prof Philip Ursprung (History and Theory of Architecture, D-ARCH) talk in the context of the exhibition AAA Experiments about their work and research.

The evening will be moderated by Daniel Baumann; the discussion shall take place in English.

These talks are public and free; they take place on Thursdays between the 10 October and 19 December 2024, starting each week at 7 pm.

Monica Narula (IN) is an artist. She holds a MA in English Literature, and is trained in cinematography and filmmaking. Alongside Jeebesh Bagchi and Suddhabrata Sengupta, Narula is a co-founder and member of the Raqs Media Collective. The collective was found in 1992 and is best known for its contribution to contemporary art. They have curated exhibitions, made films, edited books, staged situations, and collaborated with architects, computer programmers, writers, curators, and theatre directors. Their works have been presented internationally at most of the major shows, from Documenta to the Venice Biennale.

Philip Ursprung is Professor of Art and Architectural History at ETH Zurich and Head of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture. He has taught at UdK Berlin, Columbia University New York, the Barcelona Institute of Architecture, Cornell University and the University of Zurich, among others. He is the editor of Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History (2002) and author of various books on contemporary art and architecture, including The Art of the Present (2010) and The Value of the Surface (2017). His most recent publications are Joseph Beuys, Kunst, Kapital Revolution (2021) and the volume he co-edited Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook (2022). In 2023, he represented Switzerland with Karin Sander at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale with the exhibition Neighbours. He will be a guest at Kunsthalle Zürich in autumn 2024 with the semester‘Peace Out’ he is leading at the ETH Department of Architecture.