The iconic architecture of the brutalist modernist megastructure of Simon Fraser University in
Vancouver Canada built by architect Arthur Erickson in the 1960s is the site of the artistic
research project into the history of this radical campus and its built environment by Vancouver
and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber. The collaborative research group
Guests and Hosts formed by Bitter & Weber and Métis scholar June Scudeler including Métis
scholar and student Treena Chambers Kanien'kehá:ka Mohawk student Toni-Leah Yake as well as
Rachel Warwick and Hannah Campbell has challenged the narrative of the radical campus so
called because it was informed by experimental concepts of learning and teaching. Using the
spaces of a settler colonial institution the project shifts perspectives by unsettling and
challenging western-based concepts of pedagogy and knowledge. Combining archival photographic
material architectural photographs by the artists and interventions into the institutional
spaces by Guests and Hosts the project performs the claim for places rather than spaces for
Indigenous ways of knowing and learning. Texts: Treena Chambers June Scudeler with Sabine
Bitter and Helmut Weber. The series Bildungsmoderne educational Modernism is published in
cooperation with Edition Camera Austria Graz. The book is published on the occasion of the
exhibition Bildungsschock - Lernen Politik und Architektur in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren
29. January 2021 - 2. May 2021 Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
