Gallery

Vector Gallery was functioning between December 2003 and October 2007 as a non-profit art space where were organized art exhibitions, debates, and workshops in the idea to interconnect the local art scene (Iasi and Romania) with other independent artistic and institutional initiatives from the regional and international context.

Events:

December 2003 – February 2006 | October 2006 – June 2007

Events: October 2006 – June 2007

1. "Zero Setting: Unplanned Sounds and Images" - October 2006
an event realized by
MORT LA CREIER & DAN BASU
Through a sound and image experience processed as an interference of Dj-ing and Vj-ing, the first event of the session of personal settings in relation to the system conventions of production and displaying in an art gallery, brought together 2 young producers of experimental music and text communicated as image in the context of mediating a social relation of an eclectic audience.

2. “FIGHT!” – November 2006
a multi-media installation by Liliana BASARAB & Costel CHIRILA

FIGHT! is cynically commenting the visual invasion of a street interpellation and is ironically simulating an art counter-stroke. In the city, on the pillars, on the fences or on the buildings walls we can see posters that are calling us to promised initiations in the Martial Arts. In movies, we can see abundant and hyper-realist fights between celeb characters and anonymous. Urban culture and cinema industry are reproducing violent surpluses of adrenaline and simulate excessive situations of power.
The video work from this multimedia installation is mixing elements of action and interprets moments from the history of painting. Beyond the promotional aggression from the street, the production of pathological violence from the cinema industry and the hemorrhage of the quasi-conflicts from the narrow art world, there is a puzzled scenario with an already consumed end.

3. “AUDIO.VIDEO” - December 2006
an event organised by Dan BASU, Daniela PALIMARIU and Silent STRIKE 
The audio-video media and information configure the operation and mediation of new media, which have become the communication and expression instruments of the young generation. Through digital and analogue processing of simultaneous video painting and video choreography, Dan Basu and Daniela Palimariu communicate visually the experience of realising live a video graphics kit synchronised with the experimental and ambient music performed in the gallery by Silent Strike.

4. “HEATER” – January 2007
a multi-media installation by Florin BOBU
Displaying a series of objects-radiators in a minimalist format which is communicating with the performative action of the video film the video installation is constituting into a critical approach which connects an actual situation to the treatment of everyday life in Ceausescu’s period. The works proposed by the artist are applied as a subversive commentary on an abnormal situation that many Romanians live almost 20 years ago.

5. “REDISTRIBUTED RESOURCES” – February 2007
a project realized by Andrea HAJTAJER , in collaboration with Cristian NAE
The split between the Eastern and Western Europe, identified at the distribution level of the specialized information support is producing excessive behaviours for automatically copying and archiving. The photographic practice is becoming an accumulative practice of acquisition, and the communication practice is becoming a practice to (in)form an orientation in knowledge. A circumstantial documentary-artistical practice is doubled by an artistic research for processing photographed information. As a result, there is a document-book that is talking about the resistance to the information access limitation and about the abandonment, due to the circumstances, of the art function of the photography. The documentary-artistic research will be displayed, as an installation, in the working space of Vector Gallery. In between February 14 - 23, 2007, Vector Gallery borrowed the project-book from Andrea Hajtajer and will offer it to the public in the frame of the study-installation proposed by the artist.

6. “24H CYBER-CRUISING” – March 2007
a project realized by Alex GRIGORAS
In the immediate reality of the cyber-space, the actions are reset by an immaterial, but factual, relation to different counter-decisional situations. The border experiences, mediated by possible simulations, create a relation between interface’s risks and a quasi-virtual series of hyper-real livings. The self-generated absorption of the everyday life is de-compensating the electronic scenarios through an in situ construction of a transposition.

7. “REPLACING SPACE” – May 2007
a project by Lavinia GERMAN
Starting from the assumption of distancing oneself from the concrete meaning of the term "public space" and avoiding the confusion with the term "public place", understood as concrete space, outlined in the physical world and delineating private spaces, the proposed project defines public space as a negotiation context operating on the principle of constantly mediating social relation-forming norms. By applying it to this case, a concrete space, already public, the art gallery, turns into a public space as artistic metaphor/artistic expression, with unrestricted access, the green zone/area having as its first operating rule the audience's concrete and interpreted presence.