MoKS was home to the Public Office for Architecture during the whole month of August as part of the X_OP residency program. The nomadic architecture project was accompanied by Kid Space Kabinet, a continuation of Fantasy World Workshop by artist Cristina David. The Public Office for Architetcure explores the link between private and public interest [...]
Browsing the archives for the X-OP category
11 Oct 11
11 Aug 11
We were fortunate to have a (short) visit by Stuart Hodges and Yelena Popova from the UK. Yelena screened her recent film “UNNAMED” about the forbidden city in Russia where she is from. You can view the film here: They also documented some events. This is a lecture/performance by Stuart: And here is a video [...]
6 Sep 10
MoKS annual summer art symposium AVAMAA took place from August 16-21. The biggest challenge this year was to conduct the symposium almost without being able to use MOKS. With the exception of using the basement for 2 of the workshops, the building was pretty much unusable because of the current state of intensive renovation. The [...]
20 Jun 10
The X-OP festival ‘Time and Technique’ was held in Abrantes and Tomar Portugal from April 30th to May 7th and was hosted by Instituto Politecnico de Tomar. MoKS members were part of 2 events and 1 research project. After Curatorial Dinner exhibition The artistic project ‘After curatorial dinner’ was conceived by Petra Kapš during her [...]
4 Mar 10
New Maps of Time sound workshop/residency Istanbul Turkey ‘New Maps of Time’ is a project and workshop about mapping architectural and urban spaces using sound as a means to express actions within a space. read more… Workshop carried out in the frame of my X-OP residency at Apartment Project, artist-run project space, from February 8 [...]
10 Sep 09
The third X-OP event of this year took place in Novigrad Croatia in the frame of the Mediascape festival. In the X-OP “tradition” the meeting of the 9 partners provided a base for intensive discussions relating to the cooperation between the diverse group of project partners. While much of this is far too complicated to [...]
4 May 09
The most recent meeting of X-OP took place in Maçao Portugal and was hosted by Instituto Politecnico de Tomar. On the first day, April 27th there was a seminar featuring X-OP partners or guests invited by them. On the following 3 days, the Mutopia workshop was held. This workshop is a collaboration between Tero Nauha [...]
