Ruin, Desire, Celebration: A talk with Marina Otero Verzier

Name: Ruin, Desire, Celebration: A talk with Marina Otero Verzier
Start: 2025-11-10T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-10T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm

Schedule

Mon Nov 10 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm | Stockholm, ST

Ruin, Desire, Celebration: A talk with Marina Otero Verzier
Date: Monday 10 November 2025
Time: 5:30–7:00 pm
Place: IASPIS/Konstnärsnämnden
Address: Maria Skolgata 83 Stockholm
Language: English
Free admission, no reservation needed
Welcome to a presentation and conversation about research and curating spatial practice with Marina Otero Verzier. Introduction and moderation by Magnus Ericson.
In this talk Marina Otero Verzier presents research and curatorial work as an invitation to imagine a different spatial, energetic, and material system, one grounded in desire and interdependence. Through this lens, bodies, architectures, and the planet appear as collective entities engaged in continuous processes of collapse, decomposition, celebration, and co-generation.
The talk will draw on Compulsive Desires: On Lithium Extraction and Rebellious Mountains, an exhibition at Galería Municipal do Porto created in collaboration with the communities of Covas do Barroso, a landscape of extraordinary biodiversity now facing the threat of lithium extraction. It will also reflect on Opera Aperta, the Holy See Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, which understands repair as a radical and collective gesture of care.
▪️Marina Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher whose work sits at the intersection of critical spatial practices, ecology, technology, and activism. In 2022, she received Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize for a project on the future of data storage. She is a Lecturer in Architecture at Harvard GSD and Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor at GSAPP, Columbia University, New York, where she leads the Data Mourning clinic, an educational initiative focused on the intersection of digital infrastructures and climate catastrophe.
Image: Marco Cremascoli
@marinaotero22