Becoming Commons

Curators/Exhibitors: Diana Smiljkovic and Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen

Easter Term 2024

The exhibition features several works by the collaborative practice Rehearsing Environments, directed by Diana Smiljkovic and Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen, including the experimental anthology I, like many things (2023) published by Yale School of Architecture and an issue of the student-run architecture journal Paprika! There’s No Place Like (2021)—both edited by Diana and Gustav in collaboration with Rachael Tsai and Jack Rusk as the Home Work Research Group (HMWRK); documentation of the Armory Workshop (2022), developed in collaboration with Yale Urban Media Project; artifacts from a recently started initiative in Limassol, Cyprus called Building Neighbourhood (2023), and documentations of the performative pieces Critical Directions (2023), performed in and around the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 and the nomadic performance format Swash Bar (2023) first performed in the summer of 2023.

Becoming Commons invites to collective critical inquiry on the performativities of collective critical spatial practice through the launch and circulation of a polemical zine and a temporary travelling spatial intervention appearing across the Architecture Library, Scroop Terrace Courtyard and Gallery during Easter Term 2024.