[spectre] EXHIBITION_RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios

[stefan rusu]

EXHIBITION
RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios

21 of October-10 of November 2008 (10.00-17.00)

Locations: The National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History
(str. Kogalniceanu 82, Chisinau) and the Museum of Romanian Literature
M.Kogalniceanu (str. 31 August - 98, Chisinau).


The exhibition presents visual art projects as a result of interaction
between artist and experts (sociologists, historians, political
annalists) involved in this interdisciplinary project. The
participants investigated by juxtaposing the current cultural, social
and political situation in two Moldova regions (Moldova region from
Romania and the Republic of Moldova). The main project installation is
located in the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History,
while the other projects are exhibited in The Museum of Romanian
Literature M.Kogalniceanu. Along with the visual art projects will be
presented the video documentation of the colloquium from Iasi and the
audio files with the experts contributions. The participants analyzed
and commented upon the former and current conditions of two patterns:
post-socialist and post-soviet of two societies, decades after the
collapse of eastern block and dismantling of Soviet Union. In the same
time the artists and experts looked closely in to the future scenarios
of the society's in question.

Participants:

The artists:

Dan Acostioaei/ Iasi
Denis Bartenev/ Chisinau
Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol)/Rotterdam
Maxim Cuzmenco/ Chisinau
Veaceslav Druta/ Chisinau
Tatiana Fiodorova/ Chisinau
Lavinia German/ Iasi
Alex Grigoras/ Iasi
Violeta Ionita/ Iasi
Gulsun Karamustafa/Istambul
Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum/Rotterdam
Lucia Macari/Amsterdam-Chisinau
Tilmann Meyer-Faje/Amsterdam
Aurelia Mihai/ Bucharest-Hamburg
Dumitru Oboroc/ Iasi
Ghenadie Popescu/ Chisinau
Ilya Rabinovich/Amsterdam
Igor Scerbina/ Chisinau
Vadim Tiganas/ Chisinau
Vladimir Us/ Chisinau

The experts:

Igor Casu, Chisinau (historian)
Sorin Bocancea, Iasi (political analyst)
Petru Negura, Chisinau (culturologist and sociologist)
Flavius Solomon, Iasi (historian)
Mihai Ursu, Chisinau (muzeum curator)

Curator: Stefan Rusu

Partners: The National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, The
Museum of Romanian Literature M.Kogalniceanu, The National Museum of
History and Archeology, Art College A.Plamadeala.

Media partners:  magazine "Stare de Urgenta", magazine Contrafort

RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios is a project organized by [KSA:K]
-Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau in partnership with VECTOR
Association, Iasi that
consist in a series of interdisciplinary workshops, production of 3
documentary films ( 1 film produced by VECTOR Association and 2 others
by KSAK Center ), colloquium and seminars that took place in Iasi and
Chisinau, a project publication and final exhibition produced by KSAK
Center in Chisinau.

The RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project components - the films by
Veaceslav Druta and Aurelia Mihai, also a video documentation of the
colloquium from Iasi were presented in the frame of 8 Periferic
Biennale (Art as Gift, 3-18 of October).

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
RO-MD/Moldova in two scenarios project

Details about the project:
[KSA:K] -Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau
str. Independenţei 1,
tel. + 373 22 772507
tel./fax + 373 22 573395
http://www.art.md