Judith Barry at INSITE

This conversation on November 9, 2024 will focus on architectural projects, theories, and practices that challenged social experimentation and thinking in the 1970s. Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne will discuss one of his first commissions with Morphosis: a 1975 social housing project in Tijuana that coincided with the Mexicali Experimental Project. Artist and writer Judith Barry will focus on her years as an architecture student at University of California Berkeley, where she attended the “progressive” lectures of Christopher Alexander. Architectural historian Ginger Nolan will contribute her research and critique of Alexander’s early approach to community building prior to the Mexicali experiment.

Read More Here

Judith Barry is an artist and writer whose research-based practice combines multiple disciplines and forms of artistic production to question technologies of representation. These include cinema/media, exhibition design, performance, architecture, sculpture, and photography. Her background in film history and critical theory, architecture and design, dance, and fine art influences the ultimate form of each project. She doesn’t have a signature style, and each work’s form and content proceeds through a series of evolving questions. She will discuss a number of her projects in different media. See: judithbarrystudio

Judith Barry has exhibited internationally at such venues as the Berlin Biennale, Venice Biennale(s) of Art/Architecture, São Paulo Biennial, Whitney Biennial, and Documenta, among many others. A twelve-installation survey of her work, Judith Barry: Body Without Limits, toured in Spain and Portugal between 2008 and 2010. Current exhibitions include Style Congo. Heritage & Heresy, CIVA, Brussels and Topologies of the Real, Techne Shenzhen 2023, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning. Public Fantasy, a collection of Barryʼs essays, was published by the ICA in London, in 1991.