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Reading Images Series: Depositions

With Catherine Seavitt, Laura Belik, Caitlin Blanchfield, Jaffer Kolb, Annie Phaosawasdi, Frank Ruchala, and Frederick Steiner

Reading Images Series: Depositions looks into Brazilian architect Roberto Burle Marx’s eighteen environmental depositions, a series of position pieces written and delivered to the Federal Council of Culture, a plenary convened by the Brazilian military dictatorship in 1967. Burle Marx’s seven-year tenure on the council, from 1967 through 1974, was a period that included the regime’s most oppressive years.

Catherine Seavitt’s recently released book, Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes Under Dictatorship, includes the first English translations of these depositions, addressing such issues as deforestation, national parks and land conservation, urban disfiguration, botanical gardens, ecological devastation, and the unique qualities of the Brazilian landscape. The speeches articulate an opposition to the regime’s strategy of national economic development. Yet the complexity of the historical and political context cannot be overlooked – Burle Marx was a voluntary cultural advisor to a regime that would execute a series of brutal human rights violations as well as devastating environmental abuses in the interest of national economic development.

Reading Images Series: Depositions invites experts in fields that touch upon environmental issues, from landscape architecture to preservation and policy, to examine the conflicting agency of undertaking environmental advocacy work while operating under restrictive, and often oppressive, regimes.

Copies of Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes Under Dictatorship will be for sale during the event.

About the Reading Images Series
The Reading Images Series format invites participants to closely look into images and construct arguments, narratives and observations that produce incisive readings of form, politics, gaze, and representation.











When: Tue., May. 22, 2018 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare St.
212-431-5795
Price: Free
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With Catherine Seavitt, Laura Belik, Caitlin Blanchfield, Jaffer Kolb, Annie Phaosawasdi, Frank Ruchala, and Frederick Steiner

Reading Images Series: Depositions looks into Brazilian architect Roberto Burle Marx’s eighteen environmental depositions, a series of position pieces written and delivered to the Federal Council of Culture, a plenary convened by the Brazilian military dictatorship in 1967. Burle Marx’s seven-year tenure on the council, from 1967 through 1974, was a period that included the regime’s most oppressive years.

Catherine Seavitt’s recently released book, Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes Under Dictatorship, includes the first English translations of these depositions, addressing such issues as deforestation, national parks and land conservation, urban disfiguration, botanical gardens, ecological devastation, and the unique qualities of the Brazilian landscape. The speeches articulate an opposition to the regime’s strategy of national economic development. Yet the complexity of the historical and political context cannot be overlooked – Burle Marx was a voluntary cultural advisor to a regime that would execute a series of brutal human rights violations as well as devastating environmental abuses in the interest of national economic development.

Reading Images Series: Depositions invites experts in fields that touch upon environmental issues, from landscape architecture to preservation and policy, to examine the conflicting agency of undertaking environmental advocacy work while operating under restrictive, and often oppressive, regimes.

Copies of Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes Under Dictatorship will be for sale during the event.

About the Reading Images Series
The Reading Images Series format invites participants to closely look into images and construct arguments, narratives and observations that produce incisive readings of form, politics, gaze, and representation.

Buy tickets/get more info now