Kristina Kotov

Senior Lecturer in Architecture // Stage 2 Convener

Kristina studied at University of Illinois-Chicago Architecture and History of Architecture, and the Architectural Association, working with Raoul Bunschoten (CHORA) on the project ‘the skin of the earth’ for Moscow during the early stages of dissolution of the USSR. Since 2005 she has been running the LT Ranch Project Space in rural Lithuania- an architecture, art and landscape studio for participant led summer residencies of spontaneous making, re-making and un-making of social ecologies and other curatorial storey-telling conjuring. This zone of the Ranch is carefully embedded in the neighbourhood and depends on and hopefully extends this care in equal measure.
The Ranch residencies resumed on site with a live session in 2022 since lockdown’s online residency in 2020 and the subsequent exhibition ‘the Ranch20+ Protagonists’ at Tauragnų Regional Museum in Utena, Lithuania in 2021.

Collaborations include all those who have taken part in Ranch conversations to date and other meanwhile projects including the ‘scanning of the ghost of barn 2B’ with ScanLAB Projects funded by the UCA Research Fund enabling the re-use of a c. 250-year-old hay barn (‘kluonas’)- labelling, dis-mantling, moving and re-assembling it 350m NE within the Ranch boundary.

Her research has monitored and actively recorded the meanwhile of urban and rural settlements perhaps as a form of resistance. The conversations and gatherings aimed to gather traces of peoples’ movements especially reverse migrations- their spatial and textual languages as records of durations of temporary architectural fragments, which of late gather further geo-politically complexities.

Her Super8, 16mm, and video films have been screened at international festivals as well as the Venice Biennale 2017 collaborative film project. She also teaches MA Interior & Spatial Design at UAL-Camberwell.

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