exkursion 07: bukarest & cluj
20.-25. Oktober 2005
schnittpunkt wien ausstellungstheorie & praxis veranstaltet eine Exkursion nach Rumänien für internationale AkteurInnen und Interessierte des Ausstellungs- und Museumsfeldes. Ein dichtes Programm, das drei Tage in Bukarest und zwei Tage in Cluj umfasst, bietet fundierte Einblicke in kuratorische Praxen, in die museale Geschichte und Struktur, sowie in die zeitgenössische Kunstszene Rumäniens und beschäftigt sich mit historischen Spuren und gegenwärtigen Entwicklungen im städtischen Raum. Besucht werden Museen, Galerien, kunst- und kulturhistorische Ausstellungen und off-space-Projekte. Vorträge und Gespräche beleuchten gesellschaftspolitische Aspekte und kulturpolitische Hintergründe. In jeder Institution gibt es Gelegenheit zu Austausch und Vernetzung mit KuratorInnen und LeiterInnen der lokalen Institutionen sowie mit AkteurInnen des Ausstellungsbetriebes.
Statement
Time Machine. Life before criticism. A tour of Romanian Cultural Landscape
Dan Perjovschi
For years Romania was the black hole of Europe. One of the most savage and absurd dictatorships was possible due to local obedience (no real opposition, no samizdat, no nothing) and western miopia (Ceausescu was praised as a dissident in the Russian block). The country was conceptually distroyed, the people were sentimentally mutilated. The Romanian Revolution was a Coup d'etat. Neocomunists and ex-secret service agents got the power. And the money. In 15 years Romania transformed from a fundamentalistic stalinist country into a fundamentalistic neo-liberal one. 15 years created ultra-rich and ultra-poor people. The same street carries the last type of Mercedes and carriages with horses. Old communist empty shops where you find nothing to buy, are replaced by shops too expensive to buy anything. Romania survived 500 revolutions, from gender and sexual orientation to religious freedom, human rights, tax system, pluripartidism, freedom of speech... Tragedy, comedy, sentimentalism, pragmatism, humanism and racism are all together. A fantastic mixture of sights seen, trends and ideologies are happening at once. One way to understand this chaos is through culture... There is not much criticism going on, priests at the opening (neo-orthodoxism) were replaced by DJs (new media), the National Museum of Contemporary Art is placed in the Ceausescu Palace and the leader of the Artist Union is an old apparatcik, art academies are light conservative and still favour the old maestro idea, young people are giving a shit on the past, if you do not do digital you are not contemporary enough, culture is for elite and its stars are male only... And in the meantime a new art scene emerges, art market is shaping, artist-run spaces appear, independent activities are florishing... There is a sensational energy going on. Nobody jokes. Things are happening now. Either good or forever stupid. We have the responsability. Come and see us winning or failing.
Konzeption / Organisation:
Nora Sternfeld, schnittpunkt/trafo.K und Luisa Ziaja, schnittpunkt
Die Exkursion wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit Dan Perjovschi (Künstler/Bukarest), Matei Caltia (Posibila Gallery/Bukarest) und Maria Nadolu (Kunsthistorikerin/Bukarest) konzipiert und realisiert. Unter dem Titel "schnittpunkt in Bukarest/Cluj: Networking 01" ist sie Teil des EU-Projekts translate des eipcp (european institute for progressive cultural policies - www.eipcp.net)
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schnitt.networking.lecture
bukarest / wien
Freitag, 04. November 2005, 20.00 Uhr
IG Bildende Kunst, Gumpendorferstraße 10-12, 1060 Wien
Als 'follow-up' der Exkursion nach Bukarest und Cluj im Oktober 2005 veranstaltet schnittpunkt. ausstellungstheorie & praxis einen Abend mit Vorträgen junger rumänischer KuratorInnen zu Kunstproduktion zwischen Anpassung und Subversion in Rumänien vor 1989 und zu subkulturellen Phänomenen der post-komministischen Zeit.
Between situations/ Double life
Alina Serban
The short presentation will attempt to outline the permanent oscillation of Romanian art/ist, during the communist times, between two layers: private negation, distance, anonymity, and official acceptance. For several decades, the ideological trap suppressed the artistic freedom creating new conditions for artistic practice, new conditions for expressing, different from the West. The text will follow the individual positions versus the official commitment, the aesthetics of resistance versus the ethics of form, the national identity versus body identity, the artist ideology versus the expectation of the spectator.
Alina Serban (born 1978), art critic and curator. Lives and works in Bucharest. Also active as a performing artist. She finished studies in art history and theory at University of Arts, Bucharest in 2002 with the work "The communist cultura underground 1960-1980. Experimental art in Romania and the case of ready-made"; MA at University of Arts, Bucharest in 2004 with the work "Representation and ideological canon. The case of historical painting in Romania". Member of the Association of art historians, London/UK, Member of AICA Romania and International.
domiciliu fortat / house arrest. Young Romanian Otaku-Slashdotter-Geek-Buff Rooms
Stefan Tiron
A presentation of different outsider living environments – in Bucharest, Arad, Timisoara, Brasov, and Cluj. Inside former communist apartment blocks, inside their parent’s houses, on the city margins, young Romanians re-shape their most intimate space as a world apart. Inside the given brackets ( ) these are becoming hubs of alternative imagery and fringe activity. They host a build-up of networking, smoking, burning (DVDs what else!), hacking, bending and speedgeeking. From their innermost lair they poke out and reshape their cities.
Stefan Tiron was born in 1976 in Romania, studied and lived in Germany (Berlin) and the US (Anchorage, Philadelphia) and has a degree in the History and Theory of Art at the Art University Bucharest. He is busy trafficking information between several cities, scenes, geographic areas; between the natural sciences and the arts; promoting noise, local youth subcultures and counter-cultural moves. In 2002 he has been involved with co-organizing the Performing Places site-specific project "Urban Textures" (2020/British Council) and the "Moving Patterns 04" festival in 2004 at the Vienna Days in Bucharest and a co-curator for the "On Difference" project in Stuttgart in 2005. He has been writing about open-resource rip-off dynamics in Bucharest (for Springerin), the Bucharest megastructure (for Archis), a study of Steampunk lifestyles (in Idea), mobile clubs in Berlin and underground flat parties in NY (for Arhitext Design), writes a bimonthly column on the history of Japanese horror manga, movies ! and literature for the Sunete mag, and hopes to keep on doing what he enjoys most. He is currently part of the artist in residence program at the Museumsquartier 21 in Vienna, invited by Monochrom.
Moderation: Luisa Ziaja, schnittpunkt (Vienna)