Am 5. Nov. 2026 um 19 Uhr: „Images Rendered Like Lard: The Albanian Files“ von Enis Maci.

Seit dem Lockdown-Frühling der Tradwives wissen wir: Wer Schmalz auslässt, die „rendert“ ihn — erhitzt das Fett, entfernt, was als unrein gilt, und stellt den Herd noch heißer. 

Ausgehend von der kürzlich erschienenen Publikation The Albanian Files. Freedom & Architecture fragt Enis Maci: Was anderes sind Renderings als ausgelassene Bilder?  Wie wirken Geschmack und Amnesie auf postliberale Zukünfte ein, da an der Frontier, wo Migrant*innengefängnisse, Bergwerke und Gaspipelines auf Wolkenkratzer, Naturwunder und Eurosummer-Resorts treffen? 
 

„Machine imagination, humans without faces. Espresso tonic on terraces beneath a fine artificial drizzle. Piazza d'Italia is the name of 45 paintings by Giorgio de Chirico, and of a public plaza in New Orleans where the American architect Charles Moore brought these images to life. Stagnant water in fountains. Quinine against malaria. Places surrendered, then deserted. Visions rendered, very slowly, at low heat. Could you render an image like you render lard?
In 2001, Albania had a population of over 3 million. In 2026, the figure has fallen to just 2,3 million. According to the National Statistics Institute, around the same number live abroad. Those who remain live mostly in the rapidly expanding Tiranë-Durrës conurbation, between port and and airport. Here, as everywhere outside China, a centre dotted with half-empty, absolutely unaffordable high-rises is circled by ever-larger ring roads in ever-farther suburbs for ever-later arrivals. Concentric repetition in a morally coded landscape: Inferno.“

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt. Freier Eintritt.