<font size="2"><span lang="RO">SEMINAR&WORKSHOP
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span><br></span></font></p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>within
the project</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><b><i><span><br></span></i></b></font></p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><b><i><span>CHIŞINĂU-</span></i></b><b><i><span>
Art, Research in the Public Sphere</span></i></b><span> </span><span></span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><span><br></span></font></p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2">Period:
24 May – 7 June <br>
Project organizer: KSAK- Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau </font></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><span>Location:<span> </span>State University, Chisinau</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><span>Address: str. A. Mateevici 60, Main Building, Auditorium
137/141 </span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><span>Program: 10.00 - 17.30, open for the public</span> </font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span><br></span></font></p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>The
transdisciplinary seminar and the workshop dedicated to documentation
and
research are a part of the </span><b><i><span>CHISINAU-</span></i></b><b><i><span> Art, Research in the Public
Sphere </span></i></b><i><span>- </span></i><span>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. </span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>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. </span></font></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><span>Participants:</span></font></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><b><span>Angela Serino</span></b> – <i>curator, art manager,
The Netherlands</i>,<b> Klaus Schafler</b> – <i>visual
artist, Austria</i>, <b>Vladan
Jeremic&Rena Raedle </b>– <i>curators,
social activists, Serbia</i>, <b>Danilo
Prnjat</b> – <i>visual artist, Serbia</i>, <b>Joanna Rajkowska</b> – <i>visual
artist, Poland</i>, <b>Kaja
Pawelek</b> – <i>curator, Poland,</i> <b>Dumitru Oboroc</b> – <i>visual
artist, Romania</i>, <b>Alina
Popa&Irina Gheorghe (The Bureau of Melodramatic Research</b>) – <i>visual
artists</i>, <i>Romania</i>, <b>Ferenc Gróf
&Jean-Baptiste Naudy</b> (<b>Societe
Realiste</b>) – <i>visual artists</i>, <i>France/Hungary</i>, <b>Rael
Artel</b> – <i>curator, art
manager, Estonia</i>, <b>Floe Kasearu</b> –
<i>visual artist, Estonia,</i> <b>Catalin Gheorghe </b>– <i>art critic,
theorist, curator</i>,<i>
Romania</i>, <b>Virgil Paslariuc</b> – <i>historian, Moldova</i>, <b>Ovidiu
Tichindeleanu</b> – <i>philosopher,
writer, Moldova</i>, <b>Tamara Nesterov</b>
–<i> historian, archaeologist, Moldova</i>, <b>Indre Klimaite</b> – <i>visual
artist, Lithuania</i>, <b>Ghenadie
Popescu</b> – <i>visual artist, Moldova</i>,
<b>Tatiana Fiodorova</b> – <i>visual artist, Moldova</i>, <b>Maxim
Cuzmenco</b> – <i>visual artist, Moldova</i>, <b>Vladimir
Us</b> – <i>artist, curator, Moldova, <b>Ana Marian</b> – art critic,
theorist,
Moldova</i></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><b><i><span> </span></i></b></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>Project
partners in Moldova: <b>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</b></span><span>
</span><b><span>UNESCO Chair of South-East
European Studies within the
Faculty of History of the Moldova State University</span></b>, <b><span>National Museum of History and Archaeology,
Directorate
for Culture of the Municipality of Chişinău</span></b><b><span> </span></b><span></span></font></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><b><i><span>CHIŞINĂU-</span></i></b><b><i><span> Art, Research in the Public Sphere</span></i></b><span> is suported financialy by <b>Allianz
Kulturstiftung, <span>Germany, Alliance Française de Moldavie, the
Goethe
Institute/Bucharest trough, the Polish Cultural Institute/Bucharest and
the Austrian
Cultural Forum/Bucharest.</span></b></span><span>
</span></font></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><b><span>Project
partners:</span></b></font></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><b><span>E-cart.ro
Association</span></b><span>, Campina, Romania
(<a href="http://www.e-cart.ro">www.e-cart.ro</a>)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>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. </span></font></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><b><span>MEEM- Rael Artel
Gallery:
Non-Profit Project</span></b><span>, Tallinn,
Estonia (<a href="http://www.publicpreparation.org">www.publicpreparation.org</a>)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>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. </span></font></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><b><span>Center for Contemporary Art -
[KSA:K]</span></b><span> (<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.art.md">www.art.md</a></span>)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><span>[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. </span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="RO"> </span></font></p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="RO"><br></span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>Stefan Rusu- Project
Manager/Curator
</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>Center for
Contemporary
Art-[KSA:K],<br>
Str. Banulescu-Bodoni 5, ap-2, Post code 2012,<br>
Chişinău, Republic of Moldova </span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><span>tel: + 373
22<span> </span>23 72 72<br>
<a href="http://www.art.md">www.art.md</a></span></font></p>
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