[spectre] interdisciplinary seminar_RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project

[stefan rusu]

INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR

in the frame of RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project

Period: 25-26 of October 2008

Location: Museum of Romanian Literature, M.Kogalniceanu, str. 31
August 1989, Chisinau

The seminar is organized by [KSA:K] - Center for Contemporary Art,
Chisinau in partnership with VECTOR Association and will be structured
in two sesions. The first section will focus on the analysis of the
current context of inter-relation between Romania and Moldova. This
relation will be viewed and commented upon from within Moldova, as
well as from outside the EU.

Moderator (First Session): Matei Bejenaru-visual artist/President of
Vector Association and co-organizer of RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios.

The second section will be dedicated to the presentation of curatorial
practices and artistic strategies exploring the contexts of some
divided (split up) territories. This part of the seminar is rather
important from the point of view of media coverage of the RO-MD
interrelation and placement of the latter in a wider international
context. This session will include presentation and commenting upon
some other cases: ongoing projects in Myanmar (Burma) - begun since
1997 - where divisions are drawn by religion, ethnicities and the need
for survival in a harsh political environment presented by Jay
Koh-artist and cultural manager (currently based in Ulaanbaatar), the
social and economic context of formerly divided regions of Germany
(DRG and FRG), presented by Laura Schleussner-frelance curator from
Berlin, as well as some scenarios on cultural approximation of the two
Moldova regions in a new regional geopolitical context produced by
Catalin Gheorghe-curator from Iasi and Lilia Dragneva-curator from
Chisinau.

Moderator (II Session): Stefan Rusu- visual artist/curator of
RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project

Participants: visual artists, curators and experts (sociologists,
historians, political analysts):
Matei Bejenaru/Iasi, Flavius
Solomon/Iasi, Sorin Bocancea/Iasi,
Catalin Gheorghe/Iasi, Stefan
Rusu/Chisinau, Dumitru Crudu/Chisinau,
Igor Casu/Chisinau, Laura
Schleussner/Berlin, Jay
Koh/Ulaanbataar-Berlin, Lilia
Dragneva/Chisinau, Tatiana
Fiodorova/Chisinau, Ghenadie
Popescu/Chisinau, Vadim Tiganas/Chisinau,
Igor Scerbina/Chisinau,
Maxim Kusmenco/Chisinau, Denis
Bartenev/Chisinau.

RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project aim is to investigate by
juxtaposing the current cultural, social and political situation in
two Moldova regions (Moldova region from Romania and the Republic of
Moldova)

RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios is organized by [KSA:K] - Center for
Contemporary  Arta, Chisinau in partnership with VECTOR Association,
Iasi, Romania.

The project is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute through
the CANTEMIR Program, Bucharest; PATTERNS Program /ERSTE Foundation,
Vienna and MONDRIAAN Stichting, Amsterdam.

* [KSA:K] - Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau is a non-profit,
independent institution registered in the year 2000. The new strategy
of the Center is the development of cultural forms and art practices,
which would reflect the dynamic of the social, political and economic
transformations of the society. Center supports the advocacy
activities in promoting of cultural policies suitable for the defining
and the consolidation of artist position and contemporary art
practices in the society. (www.art.md)

* Vector> Association is a non-profit cultural association that
provides the production of exhibition and educational programs,
research and editing activities, analyzes of the relations between the
art practices and visual culture in socio-political context. Vector>
supports those practices related to social re-articulation, political
consciousness and economical transformation that brings critical
analyses that could offer reinterpretations of the attitudes and
behavior from the perspective of cultural action. (www.periferic.org)


Stefan Rusu – visual artist/curator

Details about the project:

Center for Contemporary Art,
Chisinau
str. Independenţei 1,
tel. + 373 22 772507
tel./fax + 373 22 573395

http://www.art.md