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<p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">RECLAIMING THE CITY, (Romanian
subtitles) 64’, 2012</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">by <font size="1">S</font>tefan Rusu <br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1"><br>
</font></span></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">Period: 28 of October (Sunday), 19:00<br>Organizer: Spalatorie theater<br>Location: Spalatorie theater<br>Address: 72 Eminescu Str.</font></span><p class="MsoNormal">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">Through a complex interweaving of field trips and
interviews, personal narratives and interventions in public spaces, the film
reveals a number of sites of the New Berlin that uniquely exemplify the
contradictions and tensions of social memory and national identity in the late
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It is conceived as an investigative
documentary, and is a quest through dramatic socio-economic restructuring
processes, the physical transformation of the city following the fall of the
Wall, and the impact of gentrification processes on public space. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">The film is based on city walks with Svetlana Hagen, Erik
Göngrich, Jochen Becker, Mathias Heyden, Berndt Langer, who guide the viewer
trough Kreuzberg, Neukölln, and Prenzlauer Berg districts, among others—areas
that are trapped in a continuing cycle of gentrification. Along these trips we
re-visit Tempelhof Airport, haunted by the ghosts of the Cold War; and we climb
to the top of Reichstag— rebranded from a symbol of defeat into a temple of
democracy. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">The journey continues as we visit a number of former and
still existing squats, in order to compare them with more recent initiatives
and models of urban resistance. Following this path, the film spotlights agents
of change—cultural workers and activists—and explores the political dimension
of public space. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">Commissioned by the 7th Berlin Biennale, co-produced by KSAK
Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau.With kind support from Goethe Institute,
Bucharest; ERSTE Foundation, Vienna; and Romanian Cultural Institute, Berlin. <br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1"><br></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1"><i>Stefan Rusu
is a visual artist, curator, editor, and filmmaker based in Chisinau</i> <i>and Bucharest. His artistic/curatorial
agenda is geared towards the processes of transformation and changes in
post-socialist societies after 1989.</i> </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">Public event organised by Sp<font size="1">a</font>l<font size="1">a</font>torie<font size="1"> t</font>heater
in colaboration with [KSA:K] - Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1"><br></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><font size="1">Sp<font size="1">a</font>l<font size="1">a</font>torie<font size="1"> t</font>heater is not a
venue or an institution, it is a framework created by artists for artists. The
framework aims to give artists who oppose the artistic views of the state-run
cultural institutions and hence find themselves left out of the system, the
opportunity to present their work to the local public and say what they need to
say in their own manner. One of spălătorie’s principles is that artists should
take a stand and should tackle the problems the society is going through.
Secondly, that they should use state-of-the-art approaches in their work and be
aware of the current developments in the art sphere. Therefore, spălătorie-theater
wants to give to the Moldovan independent cultural sector the opportunity to
express itself publicly and to become a part of the public space. Moreover, it
wants to address the need of an alternative space in Chișinău, where artists are able to
act and react to the political and social events in Moldova, but also to the
ones occurring in the broader European region and generally in the world. (<a href="http://www.spalatorie.md/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.spalatorie.md/</span></a>)</font></i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><font size="1">Center for Contemporary Art – [KSA:K] is a non-profit, independent
institution established in 2000. The 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. (<a href="http://www.art.md" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.art.md</span></a>)</font></i></span></p>
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