Join us on Tuesday 27.9. for the opening of «SPACE AS MATRIX» at gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich! With Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, Ursula Mayer, muf, Morgan Quaintance and Susana Torre curated by Geraldine Tedder (@gerrytedder) The title of the exhibition is derived from a text by Argentinian-American architect, critic, and educator Susana Torre, who wrote Space as Matrix in 1981. In the text, Torre takes building to task that blindly reproduces a fixed set of functions for each room, therefore assuming the relations that are enacted within them. The architects and artists in the exhibition are linked by their pursuit of similar methods. Their practices are founded in feminist, queer and/or intersectional approaches: First and foremost, all make space for and with people absent from certain realms – for women in patriarchal spaces, for migrant groups in cities, for children in public environments, amongst others. Space as Matrix will be accompanied by a series of events that will expand upon the exhibition’s initial presentation of practices and explore the affective requirements and consequences of such practices: The possible collateral damage that practices determined to “go against the system” expose themselves to, the sense of attachment to certain places and their associated social relations, and what demands seem to be the same now as half a century ago... Accompanying the exhibition is a book selection presented at our bookstore @madameeth @mufarchitectureart @ethzurich @ethzarchitecture