Vision
“SunShip: The Arc That Makes the Flood Possible”
The Ark is the last architecture before The Flood and the first architecture after The Flood; a hinge between two worlds. What if the Ark is an Arc in Time – Arc as in a curve – slowing time, aligning it with Life Time? The Flood would not be a destructive event, but a place of life. Architecture is a life sustaining discipline: a spatial imagination that includes the nuanced fragilities in our shared stories and spaces. Education is a transformative pursuit: galvanizing our social contracts. The education of an architect constitutes a double horizon: a SunShip, an Arc That Makes The Flood Possible.
“SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible,” is Arts Letters & Numbers’ exhibition in the CityX Venice Italian Virtual Pavilion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. This exhibition runs from May 2021 through November 2021, and along with presenting a wide selection of works, we will be creating a full series of educational programs, projects and events: lectures, panel discussions, workshops, studios, seminars, music programs, and film series.
Arts Letters & Numbers is a 501C3 non-profit arts, education, and publishing organization dedicated to creating creative exchanges across a wide range of disciplines including Architecture, Visual Arts, Theatre Arts, Film, Music, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. Arts, Letters & Numbers conducts workshops in educational and cultural institutions worldwide in collaboration with theatre companies, artists, writers, actors, musicians and filmmakers. It operates an ongoing series of educational workshops, performances and film productions at ‘The Mill’ located in Averill Park, NY.
The ubiquitous observation of our time is transformation: cultural, technological, social, political and economic We are in the midst of unprecedented realignments and rearticulations of every aspect of our lives. There are people, institutions, and communities across all disciplines and across the globe that are increasingly confronted by the need for new models of asking the extraordinarily complex questions of our time.
Arts Letters & Numbers is an emergent structure opening spaces within broad human and disciplinary geographies: spaces of participation, of communication, of reciprocity, for people and their works to listen to each other; to listen to the world.
Conceived as a Disciplinary Chora, Arts Letters & Numbers is a place of creative urgency and intensity of purpose, a place to create new linkages, new thought processes, new pathways of understanding that embody our best hopes and aspirations, a place where many elements come together to coconstruct questions and works of empathy, of ethics, of imagination that include the nuanced fragilities in our shared stories.
The transformations of our time contain great promises and great challenges. They call for considered stewardship and new spaces, bringing together diverse voices, visions, forms of knowledge, and expression. Spaces to care for and strengthen the fibers of our social contract; to transform how we experience today into how we will experience tomorrow.
Team:
David Gersten
Director | Curator
Adrianos Efthymiadis
Project Manager | Associate Curator
Sheila Mostofi
Associate Curator
Homa Shojaie
Associate Curator
Dewen Ju
Administrative Coordinator
Farzin Mojaver
Website Developer