architecture agency

As an alum of the Mellon School of Theatre and Performance Research class of 2014, Beth participated in the Mellon School’s Final Session, presenting a paper titled “Performative re-membering of and in razed sites of internment,” on June 8th.

Abstract: How to performatively re-member a razed site of internment that has been mis-placed if not erased from the historical record? My research, employing forensic architectural methods, has pinned-down and digitally reconstructed the spectral spaces of the Centre d’identification de Vincennes (CIV), a razed internment camp from the French-Algerian War period within Paris. To render this space of exception “sensible” to a broad community, I am currently researching means to integrate experiences of the augmented reality of the camp’s spaces in situ with events that assemble community. For this, I draw upon other site-specific acts and interventions as models for creating performative fora for discussion, debate and collective re-membering.