Preservation and Queer Heritage: Screening 'Abriss' and 'Dorothy Towers'
7-8.30 PM
How does historic preservation intersect with queer and other marginalized identities? To what extent might queerness question or expand conventional understandings of historic monuments and what it means to preserve them?
To explore these questions, this event brings together the film «Abriss», commissioned by the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum for the current exhibition 'What Was Could Be', and 'Dorothy Towers', a short film by British artist Sean Burns documenting the queer histories intertwined with the Clydesdale and Cleveland Towers in Birmingham, UK. The screenings will be followed by a conversation between Jens Franke (filmmaker, Berlin) and He Shen (Chair of Architecture and Care, ETH Zurich).
DenkMalBar at S AM
Admission: Pay What You Wish
Language: English
Image: The former sex cinema Roland in Zurich, still from 'Abriss',, 2025
