A public presentation by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, thinker, writer, curator, architect of the House of Taswir and the Taswir Atlas. This event will be followed by a seminar / atlas session on March 18th. First in [Walter Benjamin] mini-series, Thinking Constellations.

Taswir in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman-Turkish, Urdu, and Hindi, means “image making”, to draw, picture, represent. In her public talk, A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh presents aspects of her House of Taswir, an imaginary institute that behaves like an ancient manuscript, a dream text, piece of poetry, a fluxus score, or surrealist écriture. The House of Taswir takes its visual, formal, and architectural inspirations from such different sources as a Hadith manuscript, talmudic folios, a chapter of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, or recent contemporary art works related to the House. Bruckstein envisions an epistemic order of dreams, letters, and things, whose architecture is yet to come.

The research of the Taswir Institute is supported by the Udo Keller Foundation Forum Humanum.