Issue 3
2—12 July 2013

FORMAT is ‘live magazine’ looking at the shapes that discourse takes. Running in parallel to the AA Summer Architecture School, Issue 3 will talk about talking, show what it means to show something, and present the hidden politics of presentation. Mixing anecdote and analysis, seminars with screenings, FORMAT’s themed, reflexive sessions look back on how knowledge has been formatted into disciplines, institutions, technologies — as well as how the present moment questions or surpasses received formats of cultural consumption. Paraphrasing Marshall McLuhan, ‘The format is the massage.’ http://format.aaschool.ac.uk

— Organised by Shumon Basar

ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE IN THE NEW SOFT ROOM AT 600PM
ENTRANCE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

TUESDAY 2 JULY
reality format
presents David Cronenburg, the standards of standardisation, and television’s lust for the
pseudoreal with contributions from charles arséne-henry, sophia al maria, tom morton and alexander provan

THURSDAY 4 JULY
essay format
presents Michel de Montaigne’s prose of uncertainty and a Manifesto for the ‘Essay Film’ with brian dillon and the otolith group

MONDAY 8 JULY
trailer format
presents [in an ominous voice] cinema’s art of seductive synopsis and disclosing drama without defusing it with contributions from bernd behr, peter webber and shezad dawood

WEDNESDAY 10 JULY
comedy format
presents stand-up, sit-coms, satire and the Funny Cat Equation [Laughter] with victoria camblin, jimmy merris and paul pieroni

FRIDAY 12 JULY
hobsbawm format
presents History through the innovations of the famous Marxist historian with contributions from douglas coupland,  oscar guardiola-rivera and others