Folly & Ruin
A lecture in three acts – Revivalism, Heritage Industry and Architecture & Performativity – with accompanying costumes, reference material and props. The lecture combined factual information with subjective speculation and anecdote; a picaresque journey from avant-garde interdisciplinary practice, to amateurism, philanthropy, and Romanticism, with buildings that show an eccentricity of style and purpose, whose architects perform or subvert the mantras of form or function, extending to now romantic readings of utopianism and ‘progress’. Karen’s performance was a physical translation through statuesque poses, adorned and inhibited by her costume.
