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studio for art practices and debatesconcept: Catalin Gheorghe and Cristian Nae The studio for art practices and debates is the educational platform for critical research and art production run by Vector Association in collaboration with the Research Center organized within the Faculty of Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Design, Iasi. Activated at the borderline between the academic field and the public space the studio for art practices and debates is addressing both students and wider audiences. Students are being facilitated to enlarge their view and to interact with contemporary issues and the real public, but also to collaborate with various other communities for exchanging information and attitudes. The addressed audience is being encouraged to have direct contacts with the students’ and tutors’ work on critical issues, as well as to participate in the process of analysing the production of knowledge and art experience, the refinement of critical thinking and the understanding of our cultural needs to cope with reality. Conceived initially as a research project, the studio for art practices and debates is also aiming at investigating the conditions for activating certain art practices and production and for articulating the theoretical ability of construction and communication, starting from the perspective of an understanding of „art as experimental journalism”.
Projects: THE FACTORY a project by Catalin Gheorghe and Cristian Nae, with the collaborative participation of the artists: Dan Acostioaei, Luminita Apostu, Lavinia German, Alina Ghervase, Alexandru Grigoras, Andrea Hajtajer, Oana Nicuta, Bogdan Vatavu Cinema is one of the contemporary cultural forms which mainly affect the attitudes and behaviors of its public, who is experiencing an inflationary variety of messages of the industry and services of visual culture. By means of recycling the cultural imaginary and reconstructing the public reception, the exhibition project proposes a series of symptomatic reflections and comparative analyses on a series of thematic excerpts from an archive of French and Romanian movies.
[DÉ]PLACEMENTS a collaboration between the Studio for art practices and debates and French Cultural Center, Iasi. a collaborative, exhibitional, and reasearch in contemporary culture project, produced by a group of artists and students from the Depatments of Journalistics, Sociology, and Architecture in the Iasi academic environement.
TABLE TALK a project-in-progress produced by: curators: Dan Acostioaei, Catalin Gheorghe
BACK IN 5 MINUTES French Cultural Center, Iasi curator: Cristian Nae; co-curator: Catalin Gheorghe Alluding to a well-known stencil on the streets of Bucharest, where the ghost of communism haunts every-day reality and political speech decollates from its living meaning, the artistic intervention entitled „Back in 5 minutes”, proposed by Dumitru Oboroc at the French Cultural Center, Iasi, ironically questions the functionality and absurd existence of an institution like a Moldavian Cultural Center, temporarily (and parasitically) hosted by the concrete body of the existent institution. The indefinite period of waiting for its activation (after the ironically imprecise „5 minutes” of “pause” due the unexplained absence of its functionary) places the institution between a collective phantasm and an inconvenient „return of the repressed”.
INNOCULATED PORTRAITS French Cultural Center, Iasi The painting exhibition “Innoculated portraits” proposes, in a series of (45) portraits taken up from recent tops of what are considered to be representative figures for the „nation”, a critical way we could relate and respond to the impact of mass- media upon the construction of public images. (Catalin Gheorghe)
EDUCATION: A GUIDED TOUR University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca Initiated in 2006, EDUCATION A GUIDED TOUR is a collaborative artistic project trying to critically restructure the exchange of relevant theoretical information between the western and the eastern artistic educational systems. Its first step presupposed archiving and documenting excerpts from books, albums and readers selected from the MMU library, Manchester. The project resulted in an artist book, entirely self-financed and presented as a simulated reader of contemporary (conceptual) art history and theory, exhibited for the first time at Vector Gallery, Iasi, in 2007, which was now available for consulting for a month in the library of the University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca. Cristian Nae’s lecture at UAD, Cluj-Napoca, entitled RADICAL CURATING: FORMATTING THE ARCHIVE, RECONSIDERING INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE, tries to reflect upon the critical aspects of this artistic enterprise, through an archeological and deconstructive reading of the concept of the “archive”. Glossing upon the concept of ‘self-institutionalization’ proposed by Simon Sheikh, the lecture questions the condition of the project as such, as well as the possible ideological traps of its “implementation”.
CREATIVE MEDIATION PROJECT: ART AS GIFT ECONOMY concept: Catalin Gheorghe and Cristian Nae For the 8th edition of the Periferic Biennial, organized by the Vector Association (Iasi) in collaboration with tranzit.hu (Free School for Art Theory and Practice from Budapest), the studio for art practices and debates proposes to develop a micro-context relevant for the creative mediation of the event under the form of an artistic project. Project coordinators: Project mediators: |
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