As part of this weekend’s symposium, “Gordon Matta-Clark at Cornell” we present some of Matta-Clark’s films as well as films about his legacy. One of the most prominent figures to have studied architecture at Cornell, Matta-Clark actually “rejected traditional architectural practice and instead worked collaboratively across media, creating what he called anarchitecture, i.e., anarchy + architecture. His cuts into derelict and abandoned buildings are perhaps his best known works. Fusing drawing, sculpture, architecture and urban activism, they revealed the structures’ materiality, tectonics, beauty, and poignancy.” (Prof. Mary Woods) Included on this program is Conical Intersect (1975, 18 mins), Matta-Clark’s contribution to the Paris Biennale of 1975, which “manifested his critique of urban gentrification in the form of a radical incision through two adjacent 17th-century buildings designated for demolition near the much-contested Centre Georges Pompidou, which was then under construction; and Office Baroque, a lyrical cutting through a five-story Antwerp office building, which was the artist’s second-to-last architectural project before his untimely death. Program also includes Insection Conique, photographer and videomaker Marc Petitjean’s documentation of Matta-Clark in the process of making Conical Intersect; and Reality Properties: Fake Estates, video artist Jaime Davidovich’s documentation of Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates project, which dates from 1973-74, which addresses issues of property, ownership, and urban spaces. More at eai.org. For more information about the symposium, visit www.aap.cornell.edu. A retrospective of Matta-Clark’s work is currently on view at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Cosponsored with the College of AAP, Dept. of Art, Dept. of Landscape Architecture and the CCA.