<font style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" size="1"><br clear="all"><span class="text_exposed_show">CHISINAU - Art, Research in the Public Sphere <br> publication launch<br> <br> Period: 5 of October, 17.00<br> Location: State University, Chişinău<br>
Address: str. A. Mateevici 60, Main Building, Auditorium 511<br> Project organizer: [KSA:K] - Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau <br> <br> <br>
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.<br> <br> <br> Contributions by: <br> <br> 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)<br> <br> <br>
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. <br> <br> Project partners: E-cart.ro Association, Campina, Romania (<a href="http://www.e-cart.ro/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow">www.e-cart.ro</a>), MEEM- Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project, Tallinn, Estonia (<a href="http://www.publicpreparation.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow">www.publicpreparation.org</a>)<br>
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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. <br> <br> Media partners: Public Media Group SRL, Revista la Plic, Radio Free Europe. <br> <br>
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. <br> <br> The publication was produced with the financial support from ERSTE Foundation and was co-financed by Mondriaan Foundation.<br> <br> <br> CHIŞINĂU- Art, Research in the Public Sphere was produced by Center for Contemporary Art - [KSA:K] (<a href="http://www.art.md/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow">www.art.md</a>)<br>
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<p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><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><font style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" size="1">
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</span><font style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" size="1"><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br> Stefan Rusu- Project Manager/Curator <br> <br> Center for Contemporary Art-[KSA:K],<br> Str. Banulescu-Bodoni 5, ap-2, Post code 2012,<br>
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova <br> tel: + 373 22 23 72 72<br> <a href="http://www.art.md/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow">www.art.md</a></span></font><b><br></b><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(127, 127, 127)">
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