[spectre] REMINDER_press-release_CHISINAU-Art, Research in the Public Sphere

[stefan rusu]

SEMINAR&WORKSHOP


within the project

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*CHIŞINĂU-** Art, Research in the Public Sphere*


Period: 24 May – 7 June
Project organizer:  KSAK- Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau



Location:  State University, Chisinau

Address: str. A. Mateevici 60, Main Building, Auditorium 137/141

Program: 10.00 - 17.30, open for the public


The transdisciplinary seminar and the workshop dedicated to documentation
and research are a part of the *CHISINAU-** Art, Research in the Public
Sphere **- *a cross-disciplinary platform that will investigate the
connections between political and cultural symbols and propaganda and its
impact on the urban environment, the interference between personal
narratives and imported ideologies and cultural discourses in relation to
the public sphere. The project aim is to explore the dominant institutional
and political discourses that have shaped the society and the urban
landscape of the city of Chişinău in the course of its recent history.

A number of visual artists, curators, historians, designers and sociologists
from the Balkan (Romania, Serbia, Montenegro) and Baltic (Lithuania and
Estonia) countries, as well from other EU countries (Poland, France,
Austria, The Netherlands) that have experienced similar social and cultural
processes and phenomena will present their research and case studies related
to projects dealing with art and the public sphere and to the connections
between the public and private acceptions of space placed in various
cultural and ideological backgrounds.

The workshop the participants will examine how certain versions of the past
are produced and given prominence in the public media, civic life and state
politics, and in the flow of daily lives, from the former policies to the
present political and economic discourses that dominates the society.
Launching a project related to the public sphere today, in the middle of
globalization and of an aggressive capitalist society that has reduced the
role of art to that of mere decoration, means that public art should become
a tool of critical engagement, with political and social connotations. What
is the current look of the city and where are the real roots of the deep
nostalgia for the former symbols and the ghosts that still haunt the society
– these are some of the questions that the project participants will try to
answer with their projects and contributions to the project.



Participants:



*Angela Serino* – *curator, art manager, The Netherlands*,* Klaus Schafler*–
*visual artist, Austria*, *Vladan Jeremic&Rena Raedle *– *curators, social
activists, Serbia*, *Danilo Prnjat* – *visual artist, Serbia*, *Joanna
Rajkowska* – *visual artist, Poland*, *Kaja Pawelek* – *curator,
Poland,* *Dumitru
Oboroc* – *visual artist, Romania*, *Alina Popa&Irina Gheorghe (The Bureau
of Melodramatic Research*) – *visual artists*, *Romania*, *Ferenc Gróf
&Jean-Baptiste Naudy* (*Societe Realiste*) – *visual artists*, *
France/Hungary*, *Rael Artel* – *curator, art manager, Estonia*, *Floe
Kasearu* – *visual artist, Estonia,* *Catalin Gheorghe *– *art critic,
theorist, curator*,* Romania*, *Virgil Paslariuc* – *historian,
Moldova*, *Ovidiu
Tichindeleanu* – *philosopher, writer, Moldova*, *Tamara Nesterov*
–*historian, archaeologist, Moldova
*, *Indre Klimaite* – *visual artist, Lithuania*, *Ghenadie Popescu* – *visual
artist, Moldova*, *Tatiana Fiodorova* – *visual artist, Moldova*, *Maxim
Cuzmenco* – *visual artist, Moldova*, *Vladimir Us* – *artist, curator,
Moldova, Ana Marian – art critic, theorist, Moldova*

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Project partners in Moldova: *Alliance Française de Moldavie, the Goethe
Institute/Bucharest, the German Cultural Center AKZENTE/Chisinau, the Polish
Cultural Institute/Bucharest, the Austrian Cultural Forum/Bucharest,
the* *UNESCO
Chair of South-East European Studies within the Faculty of History of the
Moldova State University*, *National Museum of History and Archaeology,
Directorate for Culture of the Municipality of Chişinău** *



*CHIŞINĂU-** Art, Research in the Public Sphere* is suported
financialy by *Allianz
Kulturstiftung, Germany, Alliance Française de Moldavie, the Goethe
Institute/Bucharest trough, the Polish Cultural Institute/Bucharest and the
Austrian Cultural Forum/Bucharest.*

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*Project partners:*

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*E-cart.ro Association*, Campina, Romania (www.e-cart.ro)

E-cart.ro is a cultural association that encourages and promotes independent
artists and facilitates public access to contemporary art. Its current
projects include a Department for Art in Public Space, initiated in 2009,
consisting of a platform for debates, artistic interventions and
publications.



*MEEM- Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project*, Tallinn, Estonia (
www.publicpreparation.org)

NGO MEEM is a non-profit organization mainly dedicated to the production,
distribution and promotion of contemporary art. The current project, Public
Preparation, a platform for knowledge production and network-based
communication focuses on the growing tendencies of nationalism in
contemporary Europe and their critique in contemporary art.



*Center for Contemporary Art - [KSA:K]* (www.art.md)

[KSA:K] Center is a non-profit, independent institution established in 2000.
The new strategy of the Center is the development of cultural forms and art
practices that reflect the dynamic of the social, political and economic
transformations of the society. The Center supports advocacy activities in
promoting cultural policies suitable for defining and strengthening the
position of artists and contemporary art practices in society.




Stefan Rusu- Project Manager/Curator

Center for Contemporary Art-[KSA:K],
Str. Banulescu-Bodoni 5, ap-2, Post code 2012,
Chişinău, Republic of Moldova

tel: + 373 22  23 72 72
www.art.md
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