[spectre] publication launch_CHISINAU- Art, Research in the Public Sphere

[stefan rusu]

CHISINAU - Art, Research in the Public Sphere
publication launch

Period: 5 of October, 17.00
Location: State University, Chişinău
Address: str. A. Mateevici 60, Main Building, Auditorium 511
Project organizer: [KSA:K] - Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau


The publication is an invitation to a virtual tour through a number of
historical periods and political regimes that have shaped the city and the
society and includes the contributions of theorists and the artists’
projects. While the theoretical contributions present the results of
historical research and case studies concerning the various stages in the
evolution of the city of Chisinau, the artists' projects have followed to a
great extent the logic of subverting and challenging the order established
in the urban space by the state institutions in cooperation with the private
sector. Finally the project aim was not only to identify the decisive
factors that have shaped the public and urban space in Chisinau throughout
history, but also to see these spaces in confrontation with the political
and cultural processes and factors identified today.


Contributions by:

Rael Artel – curator (EST), Pavel Braila - visual artist (MD), Valeria
Barbas – visual artist (MD), Igor Casu – historian, lecturer (MD), Vasile
Ernu - writer, editor (RO), [STEALTH.unlimited] - Ana Dzokic & Marc Neelen
(NL), Octavian Esanu - artist, theoretician, curator (US/MD), Tatiana
Fiodorova - visual artist (MD), Société Réaliste - (Ferenc Gróf &
Jean-Baptiste Naudy (FR/HU)), Catalin Gheorghe - art historian, curator
(RO), Angela Harutunean- art historian, curator (EG/AM), Augustin Ioan –
arhitect, profesor (RO), Indre Klimaite – visual artist (NL), Flo Kasearu –
visual artist (EST), Max Kusmenko - visual artist (MD), Sava Lucia –
historian (MD), Ana Marian - art historian (MD), Davor Miscovici – cultural
activist, Tamara Nesterova – architect, theorist (MD), Dumitru Oboroc -
visual artist (RO), Kaja Pawelek- curator (PL), The Bureau of Melodramatic
Research (Alina Popa & Irina Gheorghe (RO)), Virgil Paslariuc – historian
(MD), Danilo Prnjat – visual artist (SP), Ghenadie Popescu- visual artist
(RM), Joanna Rajkowska – visual artist (PO), Rena Raedle & Vladan Jeremic -
curators, social activists (SP), Angela Serino – curator, art manager (NL),
Klaus Schafler - visual artist (AU), Stefan Rusu – curator (MD), Tilmann
Meyer-Faje - visual artist (NL), Ovidiu Tichindeleanu – theoretician, writer
(RO/MD), Stefan Tiron- artist, curator (RO), Vadim Tiganas- visual artist
(MD), ), Octavian Tacu – historian (MD), Nomeda&Gediminas Urbonas – artist
group (LT), Vladimir Us – curator (MD), Raluca Voinea - curator,
theoretician (RO), Mark Verlan - visual artist (MD)


CHISINAU- Art, Research in the Public Sphere is a cross-disciplinary
platform that investigates 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 was to
explore the dominant institutional and political discourses that have shaped
the society and the urban landscape of the city of Chisinau in the course of
its recent history.

Project partners: E-cart.ro Association, Campina, Romania (www.e-cart.ro),
MEEM- Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project, Tallinn, Estonia (
www.publicpreparation.org)

Project partners in Moldova: Alliance Française de Moldavie, the Goethe
Institute/Bucharest, the German Cultural Center ACCENTE/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 Chisinau, Electric Transport
Administration of Chisinau Municipality, Oberliht Association, Chisinau.

Media partners: Public Media Group SRL, Revista la Plic, Radio Free Europe.

CHISINAU - Art, Research in the Public Sphere project was supported
financially by Allianz Kulturstiftung/Germany, ERSTE Foundation/Austria,
Mondriaan Foundation/The Netherlands, Alliance Française de Moldavie, Goethe
Institute/Bucharest trough German Cultural Center ACCENTE/Chisinau, Polish
Cultural Institute/Bucharest and Austrian Cultural Forum/Bucharest, Austrian
Federal Ministry for Edication, Arts and Culture.

The publication was produced with the financial support from ERSTE
Foundation and was co-financed by Mondriaan Foundation.


CHIŞINĂU- Art, Research in the Public Sphere was produced by 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,
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
tel: + 373 22 23 72 72
www.art.md*
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