[rohrpost] Private Investigations 4: Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor

[buchsenhausen.labor]

<Private Investigations 4>

Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
<The Trial>

Opening:
Wednesday, 16.11.2005, 19.00
STADTTURMGALERIE
Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 21, Innsbruck

Artists talk:
Thursday, 17.11.2005, 18.00
STADTTURMGALERIE
Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 21, Innsbruck

exhibition dates:
17.11. - 10.12.2005

opening hours:
Tue - Sat 15.00-19.00


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Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
<The Trial>

In their long-term artistic research project Mona Vatamanu and Florin
Tudor deal with forms and functions of serial - residential -
architecture and with the urban environment it has an impact on. Being
equally rooted in the architectural and the artistic scene, Vatamanu and
Tudor are interested in the documentation and the artistic reflection on
modernist – and consequently also post-communist – architecture of the
post-war era whose physical presence continues to shape and structure
the lives of millions of people. The exhibition presents recent works
combining visual research on this topic done in Austria, Romania and
Norway with autobiographical reflections.

Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor live in Bukarest. They were resident
artists at Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen from April to July 2004.

www.exapes.org


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Other current exhibitions in the framework of <Private Investigations>
until 02.12.2005:

Urtica Art and Media Research Group: <Social Engine>
ixi software: <Lore / Composing Paper>

Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen
Weiherburggasse 13, Innsbruck
Tue - Fri 16.00 - 19.00

www.buchsenhausen.at

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<Private Investigations>
Research, Acquisition and Processing of Knowledge in Contemporary Art
Practices

BAVO, Judith Fischer & Claudia Hardi, Geoffrey Garrison, Catalin
Gheorghe, Natascha Hagenbeek, Kristina Inciuraite, ixi software, Meta
Haven Research Group, Hinrich Sachs, Urtica Art and Media Research
Group, Alexander Vaindorf, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Stevan Vukovic

<Private Investigations> is a research project on contemporary art
practices that make use of various individual (non-scientific) research
methods and strategies in order to acquire information and to process it
to knowledge bases, which may then be used as the material of the
artistic work itself. Since these strategies and methods are fairly
common in the artistic research and production in the institutional
context of residency and postgraduate programmes, the project also
intends to analyse these specific working conditions. The project is
structured as a series of residencies, exhibitions and symposia,
screenings and presentations, held at different locations in Central and
South-Eastern Europe over the next two years.

As a point of departure, the exhibition and discussion series in
Innsbruck, between November 10, 2005 and February 3, 2006, at the
Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, the Stadtturmgalerie and the Kunstpavillon,
presents and discusses works by former fellows of the international
residency programme for visual and media arts <büchsenhausen.air> from
the past three years. The artists and theorists invited deal in various
ways with particular strategies and forms of artistic research into
topics such as the spreading of cultural patterns (Memetics),
collaborative artistic production and generative software, serial
architecture and its influence on the human behaviour, the idiomatic
behaviour of an artists’ community in a context of transition, the
social and psychological changes within society by examining notions of
female identity, models of language and image perception through
cinematographic and computerised knowledge acquisition and organisation,
and fieldwork as an artistic practice. In addition, the project focuses
on and examines more closely the research and production conditions in
the post-academic context of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. In
this framework researchers and advising researchers from the three
Departments (Fine Art, Design and Theory) will present and discuss their
ongoing projects.

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