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27 June 2008
The White Night of Cultural Institutes
program proposed by the Goethe Institute Bucharest

MOLDOVA CAMPING

Timeline:

18h00 Film making in the Republic of Moldova – short presentation by Dumitru Marian (production director at OWH TV Studio)

19h00 Tent event with Pavel Braila – performance by video artist Pavel Braila (Chisinau/Berlin)

20h00 Generation Chisinau – the perspectives of film making in Moldova (this program has also been presented aty the Berlin Film Festival – balkan black box film, art, and culture in South-Eastern Europe)

- documentary: San Sanych / San Sanych
Director: George Agadjanean, 59 min, English subtitles, Moldova 2006
(DOK Leipzig 2006, Cottbus 2006, Jilava Festival 2007, Cronograf 2007)

- short movies:

Dying for Madrid

Director: Igor Cobileanski, 22 min, English subtitles, Moldova 1998

Cind se stinge lumina / When the Lights go out

Director: Igor Cobileanski, 8:20 min, English subtitles, Moldova 2006

MOLD_GOLIA, 60 min., English subtitles, Moldova (project in progress), Curator: Stefan Rusu (KSA:K, Chisinau)

16-20 June 2008 / Opening: Monday 16 June 19h00

Alina Popa & Irina Gheorghe

Poto&Cabengo

Work in progress

„Poto and Cabengo are two twins from South California who refuse to communicate with the people around them and invent a language of their own. The director Jean-Pierre Gorin makes in 1979 a documentary about them; the twins are eventually normalized through a learning process which deprives them not only of their imagination, but also of the fascination they had on the others.

This story was the starting point of a photographic investigation about the I-you relation which can become I-I, about the endless movement of the glance from one figure to the other. Poto&Cabengo is a series of staged double self-portraits in different places and situations, a way of telling personal and fictive stories in a certain location.

The discourse can follow different directions, it is an open script, whose presentation as a work in progress emphasizes not only the importance of the autonomous images, but also the possible narrative links among them.” (Alina Popa & Irina Gheorghe)

Right turn to Cumpatu

Artist talk: Christine Niehoff & Nicu Ilfoveanu

artists in residence Artist Ne(s)t Sinaia

29 May 15h00

The White Night of Art Galleries: 23 May 2008 18h00

Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, and Practice

Eve Blau and Ivan Rupnik

Transition is a condition that creates opportunities for architecture and urbanism. Zagreb is the perfect site for examining this generative dynamic: practicing in conditions of continuous instability, its architects and planners developed strategies for creatively engaging the conditional and openended— for anticipating and instrumentalizing the condition of irresolution. Moving between texts, maps, and diagrams, Project Zagreb reads the city as an open work, dynamic but coherent, in which architecture plays an active role in the formation of both urban practices and the city itself. This project is presented through four projections including diagrams, historical photographs, historical films, as well as contemporary stop-frame films.

Wednesday 14 May 2008 19h00

Works form the archive of the New media department I,
Academy of Fine Arts (AVU) Prague

a presentation by Anetta Mona Chisa

teacher at AVU Prague and Erasmus guest at the National University of Arts in Bucharest
http://nmedia.avu.cz/

Tuesday 13 May 2008 19h00

Artist talk: Anetta Mona Chisa

Romantic Economies

Anetta Mona Chisa was born in Romania. She studied sculpture and conceptual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia (1994-2000) and since 2002 she is teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, New Media department.

In 2006 she won the Slovak young visual artists award Oskar Cepan and was a resident artist at ISCP New York City. Her works have been showed recently at Milano Flash Art Show, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Vienna, Futura gallery Prague, f.a.i.t. gallery Cracow, Prague Biennial, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin, Space gallery Bratislava, Turner Contemporary Margate, Museums Quartier Vienna and Billboart Gallery Europe.

Most of her works are contextual, based on personal stories and very often she plays with the concept of access to different forms of power: professional, political, ideological, and geographical. Her artistic practices vary from stealing in private art galleries, going to fortuneteller to talking about sexy men and doing porn movies and photographs with her often collaborator Lucia Tkacova.

www.chisa-a.net