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Periferic 7 – Focussing Iasi
International Biennial for Contemporary Art
Iasi, Romania
May 12-30th, 2006
The seventh edition of Periferic Biennial is a project which focusses on different aspects of socio-political and cultural context of Iasi and Romania.
Periferic 7 focusses:
- on the position of Iasi in a globalized context where social, political and economical phenomena are influencing the cultural practices, productions and representations
- on the recent art history and the current art scene in Romania
- on the exploration of the children condition, emphasizing on the problem of 'child abandonment' in an extended sense.
Periferic 7 is structured on 3 independent sections curated by:
Marius Babias & Angelika Nollert, Florence Derieux and Attila Tordai-S.
Periferic 7: Focussing Iasi / Social Processes
Curators:
Marius Babias (theoretician and curator, Berlin) and Angelika Nollert (curator, Siemens Arts Program, Munich)
Venues:
The Turkish Bath of Iasi
Social Processes started in October 2005 with a series of conferences, presentations and workshops and will end with an exhibition in the former Turkish Bath. The invited artists will inquire into the social, cultural, and socio-political facets of Iasi: a cultural gateway between Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, and Transnistria. The artists will concentrate on projects with a specific reference to Iasi. In May 2006 the final presentation of the art projects will be mounted in the Turkish Baths, a historical building in the heart of Iasi. In addition, "Social Processes" will be accompanied by Vector Art Data Bank, showing a collection of artist's materials and art initiatives from Romania and bordering countries (Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria) that has been assembled by Matei Bejenaru and Catalin Gheorghe.
A sourcebook with the artists' contributions will be published and distributed by Revolver.
Periferic 7: Focussing Iasi / Strategies of Learning
Curator:
Florence Derieux (curator, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne)
Venues :
The Palace of Culture of Iasi, The Cupola Gallery, The Natural Science Museum
Strategies of Learning is a pragmatic response to a certain context and a proposal to simultaneously generate, collect, import and export information on Romania’s contemporary art history and art scene. This project develops itself and starts from the peculiar and complex context offered by Periferic 7 – International Biennial for Contemporary Art. Which types of relations can we indeed initiate with others, their art and history as well as their specific realities, within the frame of a biennial? Art being the sole denominator, a common basis of knowledge and understanding must first and foremost pre-exist in order to communicate. If the emergence of history, with its attendant devices (exhibition and book), is art’s new site, Strategies of Learning propose to use the biennial’s obsolete and compromised curatorial format as a flexible tool to research and create common artistic references.
Curator:
Florence Derieux (curator, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne)
Venues :
The Palace of Culture of Iasi, The Cupola Gallery, The Natural Science Museum
Strategies of Learning is a pragmatic response to a certain context and a proposal to simultaneously generate, collect, import and export information on Romania’s contemporary art history and art scene. This project develops itself and starts from the peculiar and complex context offered by Periferic 7 – International Biennial for Contemporary Art. Which types of relations can we indeed initiate with others, their art and history as well as their specific realities, within the frame of a biennial? Art being the sole denominator, a common basis of knowledge and understanding must first and foremost pre-exist in order to communicate. If the emergence of history, with its attendant devices (exhibition and book), is art’s new site, Strategies of Learning propose to use the biennial’s obsolete and compromised curatorial format as a flexible tool to research and create common artistic references.
Periferic 7: Focusing Iasi / Why Children?
Curator:
Attila Tordai-S. (curator of Protokoll Studio, editor of Idea arts + society magazine, Cluj, Romania)
Venues:
The Sports Hall of the “George Enescu” Arts University of Iasi
In the rush to change after 1989, to become a "grown up" member of modern Europe, to transform into a working, economically viable democracy, Romanian society has not been alerted to the cost that this metamorphosis may be extracting from its children. Even attentive parents and teachers find it very difficult to stand up to the onslaught of this new Romanian society which is so driven by market forces, without any thought to the social cost and consequences of this aggressive marketing. Change in Romanian society is inevitable and necessary but how can this happen in such a way as children would not become infant consumers to whomever can best grab their attention? Through artist proposals, lectures, workshops and side events, the project is aiming to discuss the issue of child abandonment in an extended sense.
Organizers
Vector Association in Iasi
Periferic team:
Matei Bejenaru – director
Dan Acostioaei – assistant director
Iulia Tencariu, Livia Tencariu – office assistants
Catalin Gheorghe, Vlad Morariu, Cristi Nae – responsible for communication, PR and documentation
Dragos Alexandrescu – photo and video documentarist
Bogdan Teodorescu – production director
Periferic 7 Biennial is supported by:
European Cultural Foundation Amsterdam
Romanian Ministry of Culture Bucharest
French-German Cultural Fund
Partners:
Municipality of Iasi
Centre Culturel Français de Iasi
Goethe Zentrum Iasi
University of Arts "George Enescu" Iasi
Sponsored by:
BRD-Groupe Societe Generale
Polirom Publishing House
Media Partners:
Arhitectura, Radio Delta RFI, Jurnalul de Est, Observator Cultural, Suplimentul de Cultura, TVR Iasi, Ziarul de Iasi
Periferic 7: Focussing Iasi / Social Processes
Cooperating partners:
Vector Association Iasi and Siemens Arts Program
Supported by:
Romanian Cultural Institute
FRAME Helsinki,
IFA Stuttgart
Kontakt. The Arts and Civil Society Program of Erste Bank Group in Central Europe
Barnard College of Columbia University New York
Ringier AG
Periferic 7: Focussing Iasi / Strategies of Learning
Supported by:
Ambassade de France à Bucarest
Centre Culturel Français de Iasi
Dutch Embassy in Bucharest
IASPIS Stockholm
The Danish Arts Council
Periferic 7: Focusing Iasi / Why Children?
Supported by:
Allianz Kulturstiftung, Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart
Artists
Periferic 7 – Focussing Iasi
International Biennial for Contemporary Art
Iasi, Romania
May 12-30th, 2006
Periferic 7: Focussing Iasi / Social Processes
Curators:
Marius Babias (theoretician and curator, Berlin) and Angelika Nollert (curator, Siemens Arts Program, Munich)
Participants:
Luchezar Boyadjiev (Bulgaria)
Boris Buden (Austria/Croatia)
Nicoleta Esinencu (Moldova)
Andrea Faciu (Germania)
H.arta (România)
Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler (Austria)
Laura Horelli (Finlanda)
John Miller (SUA)
Dan Perjovschi (România)
Lia Perjovschi (România)
Hito Steyerl (Germania)
Periferic 7: Focussing Iasi / Strategies of Learning
Curator:
Florence Derieux (curator, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne)
Artists:
Sandy Amerio (Franta)
Bik Van der Pol (Olanda)
Valentin Carron (Elvetia)
Latifa Echakhch (Maroc/ Franta)
Jens Haaning (Danemarca)
Pierre Joseph (Franta)
Mattias Olofsson (Suedia)
Sean Snyder (SUA/Germania)
Simon Starling (Marea Britanie/Germania)
Andrei Ujica & Harun Farocki (România /Germania)
Periferic 7: Focusing Iasi / Why Children?
Curator:
Attila Tordai-S. (curator of Protokoll Studio, editor of Idea arts + society magazine, Cluj, Romania)
Artists:
Big Hope (Miklos Erhardt, Dominic Hislop, Elske Rosenfeld) (Ungaria/Scotia/Germania)
Mircea Cantor & Gabriela Vanga (Franta/România)
Ioana Nemes (România)
Elke Marhöfer (Germania)
Ciprian Muresan (România)
Katya Sander (Germania/Danemarca)
Nedko Solakov (Bulgaria)