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<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>Public
presentations&Workshop in the framework of CHISINAU-Art, Research in the
Public Sphere</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1">Period: <b>28-30
JANUARY</b><b><br>
</b>Location: <b>State Universitaty,
Chisinau</b></font></p>
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Mateevici 60, Main Building, 5<sup>th</sup> Floor, Room N 511</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1">Project organizer: <b>[KSA:K]
- Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau</b> </font></p>
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<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1">Program 28-30 JANUARY:</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>28
JANUARY</b></font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><br></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1">Participants:</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>14.00 - Ana
<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Dzokic</span> and Marc <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Neelen</span>, [STEALTH.unlimited] Rotterdam
(NL)</b></font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><br></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1">As part of the project CHISINAU- Art, Research in the
Public Sphere, STEALTH.unlimited will present their ongoing project Cities Log,
a research and visual narrative depicting a chronology of spatially significant
events, decisions and discussions that shaped the post-Yugoslav and Albanian
cities in recent years. The most recent edition of the project is A(u)ction –
Novi Sad's Log of Spaces Between Personal Interests and Public Needs, run in
the format of an exhibition and a tabloid newspaper, in cooperation with
Kuda.org and a team from Novi Sad, Serbia.</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>[STEALTH.unlimited]</b> Following their collaboration since
1996, in 2000 Ana <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Dzokic</span> and Marc
<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Neelen</span> initiated STEALTH, a
practice based between Rotterdam and Belgrade – in which shifting perspectives
between urban research, visual arts, spatial intervention and cultural activism
is a key element. In 2008 STEALTH co-curated the Dutch Pavilion at the
Architecture Biennial in Venice, with the project Archiphoenix: Faculties of
Architecture. In 2009 they curated Episode 2 of the Tirana International
Contemporary Art Biannual (T.I.C.A.B) - the first biennial's contribution
expanding beyond the field of visual arts to include domains such as city and
urban transformation.</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>15.30 - Tilmann <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Meyer-Faje</span>, Amsterdam
(NL)</b></font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><br></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1">"In my work I am analyzing the relationship between
global dominant structures and local grassroots aspects. Observing the
transformation process in former soviet cities I discovered a new irony of
fate. For CHISINAU - Art, Research in Public Sphere I am working on a monument
that aims to symbolize the transformation process taking place nowadays in a
Soviet-type micro district. The interest of the people seems to have shifted
from collectivity to private properties. I am planning my intervention on a
children playground that became neglected."</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>Tilmann Meyer-Faje,</b> born in 1971 in Germany, lives and
works in Amsterdam. There he studied audiovisual art at the Gerrit Rietveld
Academy and fine arts at Sandberg Institute. Tilmann Meyer-Faje examines the
extent to which ambitious objectives deliver on their promises as he lets these
dreams take shape in his performances. His work reveals an irony arising from
the discrepancy between marketing language and actual experience. He is
consciously blurring fiction and reality. Some of his projects can be visited
at: <a href="http://www.buurtkroket.nl/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">www.buurtkroket.nl</span></a></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><a href="http://www.buurtkroket.nl/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><br>
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<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>17.00 - Raluca Voinea, Bucharest (RO) <br></b></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1">From the clock counting down the days left until Romania
was joining the EU, back in 2006, till the grotesque appearance of a chariot
with clowns in front of the National Theatre, at the end of 2010, Bucharest’s
public squares matched with their decorations, sculptures and monuments a
process of degradation and trivialization of public space discourse. Fast
privatization, indifference towards monuments of architecture, lack of
solutions for parking places, bad taste and megalomania of mayors, all these
were accompanied by TV debates in which the loudest the smartest, by a printed
media polarized between partisanship and pornography and in the last year by
the intimidation or mocking of any public expression of citizens’ discontents
or claims of their rights.</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1">What does it mean to work with public art in such a
context? What kind of art can one offer to people who need jobs, justice,
roads, transparency of public services and in general a better life? These are
questions with which E-cart.ro started in 2009 a long-term programme, called
the Department for Art in Public Space, and which it tried to keep in mind in
the projects which it organized or engaged in ever since. <br></font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>Raluca Voinea.</b> Art critic and curator, based in Bucharest.
She studied Art History and Theory in Bucharest (1997-2001) and Curating
Contemporary Art in London (2004-2006). In 2006 she co-founded E-cart.ro, a
not-for-profit, independent institution based in Romania and dedicated to
researching, producing and disseminating modern and contemporary art and
architecture. Since 2008 Raluca Voinea is co-editor of IDEA. Art + Society
magazine, published in Cluj, Romania. </font></p>
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<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>29
JANUARY</b></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Conflicting urban changes <br></span></b></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">
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<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>Workshop
by Ana <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Dzokic</span> and Marc <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Neelen</span>, [STEALTH.unlimited] Rotterdam
(NL)</b></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>
</b>Starting time: 14.00</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1">Duration: 2,5-3 hours</font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><br></font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1">The workshop will be followed by a city tour on the 30th
of January, to which the workshop participants are invitet. <br>
During the last two decades, since the early 1990s, former socialist societies
across Eastern Europe have each charted their own individual course through the
changes in their societies and towards perspectives such as accessing the
European Union. While they develop along very different lines (and some have
already joined the EU) it is striking to see how much of their recent
transition they share in terms of issues concerning urban development.</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1">Cities such as Warsaw, Belgrade or Chisinau developed
after WW2 outside of the logic of a real estate market. With the demise of the
socialist model (with its inherent modernist orientation), sooner or later
these cities have become an arena for privatization, deregulated growth, fast
capital investments, manipulative lawmaking, and identity building through
architecture – leaving citizens, architects and planners at the periphery of
decision-making and turning politicians into architects. Following the
incentive of the CHISINAU- Art, Research in the Public Sphere project and based
on the knowledge developed through the Cities Log research presented the
previous day, in this workshop the participants will share personal views and
relevant information about relevant urban events that have taken place in the
past year in the Chisinau context. Based on this, we will draft on the spot a
log (chronology) of events that have been significant in influencing the future
development of the city.</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1">These events can range from the start or finalisation of
certain urban developments, certain decisions or investments made, up to
specific topics that have come to public discussion or have – in the
participants' opinion – failed to garner any public or professional attention.
Of particular interest would also be to understand if there are signs of any
grassroots initiatives or (unconventional) views about the way Chisinau’s environment
could be shaped today.</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1"><b>30
JANUARY</b></font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Guided City Tour</span></b></font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1">Starting time: 12.00</font></p>
<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1">Starting point: KSAK Center, str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, Ap-2</font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1">Due to the limited number of seats in the minibus,
participation in the guided city tour will be limited to the workshop
participants. <br></font></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><br></p><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1"><br></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1"><b>CHISINAU- Art, Research in the Public Sphere </b>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 is 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. </font></p>
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<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><b>Project partners:</b> E-cart.ro Association, Campina, Romania (<a href="http://www.e-cart.ro/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.e-cart.ro</span></a>),
MEEM- Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project, Tallinn, Estonia (<a href="http://www.publicpreparation.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.publicpreparation.org</span></a>)</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
<font size="1"><b>Project partners in Moldova:</b> 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. <b> </b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; text-align: justify; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1"><b>Media partners:</b> Public Media Group SRL, Revista la Plic, Radio Europa
Libera, Publica TV. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1"><b><i>CHIŞINĂU-
Art, Research in the Public Sphere</i></b> is supported financially by <b>Allianz Kulturstiftung/Germany, ERSTE Foundation/Austria, Mondriaan
Foundation/Amsterdam, 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.</b> </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1"><b>Center for Contemporary
Art - [KSA:K]</b> (<a href="http://www.art.md/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.art.md</span></a>)</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1">[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. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1">Stefan Rusu- Project Manager/Curator </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1">Center for Contemporary Art-[KSA:K],<br>
Str. Banulescu-Bodoni 5, ap-2, Post code 2012,<br>
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="1">tel: + 373 22 23 72 72<br>
<a href="http://www.art.md/" target="_blank">www.art.md</a></font></p>
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