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Program

Periferic 8 – Art as Gift
Biennial for Contemporary Art
3-18 October 2008

Events day by day

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

16:00
CUBE
National Theatre “Vasile Alecsandri” Iasi
Official opening
17:30
INFO POINT
Inauguration of the Info Point (Balcony) by Markus Bader, architect (raumlabor berlin)
Piata Rosa Luxemburg - project by the artists Mona Vătămanu - Florin Tudor
Presentation of the project I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm developed for Periferic 8 by Johanna Billing
Screening of the video It’s a Magical World, 2005, 6'12" loop by Johanna Billing
18:30
SPORTSHALL- Creative Mediation Lounge
Screening of the film Joseph Beuys’ Public Dialogue, 1974, 120’

October 3 – 5, 2008
Performative events by SZAF (Judit Fischer, Miklós Mécs)
Dates and locations announced at the SZAF desk in the SPORTSHALL

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

10:00 – 14:00
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE
urbicles iasi - workshop with the architect Markus Bader – raumlabor berlin with students from the Faculty of Architecture, Iaşi
11:00
SPORTSHALL - CCCK space
Waiting for History. Excerpting Heiner Müller - public reading by the Department of Reading – Sönke Hallman as part of the CCCK project, English with Romanian translation


13:00-15:00
every day until October 18th
INFO POINT
S-video IN / S-video OUT. Made in Iaşi - one hour video program curated by Cătălin Gheorghe
Screening of the video It’s a Magical World, 2005, by Johanna Billing, 6'12" loop for one hour
15:00
CASA POGOR
Public discussion related to Common Ideologies project with George Bondor, Nicoleta Leon, Doris Mironescu, Antonio Patraş, Diana Huzic and others, moderated by Dora García and Ionut Tudor
17:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Screening of Joseph Beuys’ Public Dialogue, 1974, 120’
20:00
INFO POINT
Silent Strike (Bucharest) concert, visuals by Dan Basu
MINIpoint program

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

14:00 – 18:00
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE
urbicles iasi - workshop with the architect Markus Bader – raumlabor berlin with students from the Faculty of Architecture, Iaşi
10:30
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Smiling as I Write This. The Allure of Reflexivity in Contemporary Art - skype lecture by Tirdad Zolghadr, curator-critic, Berlin
15:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Public discussion: Institute of Wishful Thinking with Maureen Connor and Gregory Sholette
17:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Screening of Joseph Beuys’ Public Dialogue, 1974, 120’

Monday, October 6th, 2008

10:00 – 18:00
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE
urbicles iasi - workshop with the architect Markus Bader – raumlabor berlin with students from the Faculty of Architecture, Iaşi
10:00 – 17:00
STUDENTS’ HOUSE
I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm a live choreography workshop and film recording by Johanna Billing
13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Open Access. RO_Archive: artistic practices of data collecting – lecture by Iosif Király & Raluca Ionescu (UNA - National University of Art, Bucharest, RO)
Program of the Creative Mediation Project
15:00 – 17:00
INFO POINT
Open reading - We invite you to read for the others a fragment from a book you like. We are providing extra books.
MINIpoint program

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

10:00 – 18:00
STUDENTS’ HOUSE
I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm a live choreography workshop and film recording by Johanna Billing
13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
- screening sessions and debates on the videos selected by Gregory Sholette
- reading sessions & debates on the books offered as gifts by the Institute for Wishful Thinking and contributing magazines
Program of the Creative Mediation Project
17:00
PHOTO / VIDEO
Public lecture by Gregory Sholette, assistant professor, Queens College, New York

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

10:00 – 18:00
STUDENTS’ HOUSE
I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm a live choreography workshop and film recording by Johanna Billing
13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Creative Writing: session 1
Program of the Creative Mediation Project
15:00 – 17:00
INFO POINT
Open reading - We invite you to read for the others a fragment from a book you like. We are providing extra books.
MINIpoint program

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Creative Writing: session 2
Program of the Creative Mediation Project
16:00
INFO POINT
1968 – 2008, 40 years of Postmodernism? – presentation by Bogdan Chelariu, political science student at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iaşi
MINIpoint program

Friday, October 10th, 2008

13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
screenings & readings
Program of the Creative Mediation Project
20:00
INFO POINT
Mortlacreier concert, with vocals by Cati and visuals by Dan Basu
MINIpoint program

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

9:00-14:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
New audiences are challenging art theory: a critical approach international conference organized by the Studio for Art Practices and Debates
in cooperation with the Department for Art History and Theory within the Faculty of Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Design
with the support of the Faculty, the British Council, the French Cultural Center and the Goethe Zentrum in Iaşi
Participants: Hans Dieter Huber, professor of contemporary art history, aesthetics and art theory, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart, DE; Janna Graham, visiting tutor, Department of Visual Culture, Goldsmith College, London, UK; Cristian Nae & Cătălin Gheorghe, lecturers at the “George Enescu” University of Arts, Iaşi and editors ofVector - art and culture in context magazine, Iaşi, RO 
Program of the Creative Mediation Project

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
screenings and readings
Program of the Creative Mediation Project
15:00
INFO POINT
Comics in Romania – discussion with Milos Jovanovic, graphic designer, living in Bucharest and Tom Wilson, DJ and graphic designer, living in Bucharest
MINIpoint program

Monday, October 13th, 2008

13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Stories introducing imaginary cities as gifts - session 1
Program of the Creative Mediation Project

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Stories introducing imaginary cities as gifts - session 2
Program of the Creative Mediation Project
16:00
INFO POINT
The way they organize a music festival – discussion with Alexandru Chihaia and Stefan Laurian, members of Urban Works, respectively Urban Komitet
MINIpoint program

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Screenings & Readings
Program of the Creative Mediation Project

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Education as mediation: gifts and exchanges - open seminar on “Art as Gift”by Catalin Gheorghe
Program of the Creative Mediation Project

Friday, October 17th, 2008

13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
The Author as producer: from object makers to service providers - open seminar on “Art as Gift” by Cristian Nae
Program of the Creative Mediation Project

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

13:00
SPORTSHALL - Creative Mediation Lounge
Conclusions
Program of the Creative Mediation Project