Apartament Deschis – apel la proiecte

Ce?
În cadrul proiectului CHIOȘC, Asociația Oberliht face apel către artiști să vină cu propuneri de proiecte și lucrări care să fie prezentate în Apartamentul Deschis, ca o intervenție în spațiul acestuia.

Ce este Apartamentul Deschis?
Apartamentul Deschis este o replică funcțională a unui apartament de tip socialist, proiectat de Ștefan Rusu și comandat pentru a reprezenta identitatea proiectului CHIOŞC. Punctul de plecare pentru proiectarea în elaborarea designului a fost preocuparea autorului pentru a expune public spaţiul privat al unui apartament limitat de standardele societăţii socialiste. Structura deschisă a Apartamentului sugerează ideea unui modul extras dintr-un bloc de apartamente cu elementele de bază specifice societăţilor aflate în tranziţie: faţada principală cu un balcon împachetat în termopan, camera de zi, bucătăria şi un grup sanitar.
Aflați mai multe despre acest spațiu în acest articol.
De asemenea, vedeți acest video (2013).
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Ce este proiectul CHIOŞC?
Proiectul CHIOŞC, punct de informare cultural şi platformă publică de manifestare a fost lansat în oraşul Chişinău în 2009. A fost conceput într-un context social-politic complex al procesului de tranziţie, cu intenția de a promova arta contemporană şi cultura tinerilor în spaţiul public.
Mai multe despre proiectul CHIOŞC.

Ce căutăm?
Vă rugăm să ne trimiteți propunerile voastre, care ar putea fi realizate în spațiul Apartamentului Deschis (vedeți planul). Puteți utiliza pereții, podeaua și spațiul din jurul Apartamentului. Vă puteți folosi și de panoul informativ iluminat, similar cu cele amplasate pe marginea drumului. Proiectele pot să facă uz de întregul spațiu, dar pot să se limiteze doar la panoul informativ, sau poate doriți să interveniți pe suprafața pereților. În cazul selecției, lucrarea voastră va fi expusă pentru o perioadă limitată de timp.

Unde poți trimite propunerea ta?
Vă rugăm să completați acest formular google, și să ne anunțați prin expedierea unui e-mail la: info(a)oberliht.org
Puteți anexa schițe, fotografii sau texte în limita la 10 Mb. În cazul în care proiectul propus va fi selectat noi vă vom oferi suportul necesar pentru prezentarea lui în spațiul Apartamentului Deschis.

termen limită: în curs de desfășurare

Flat Space – call for project proposals

What?
As part of the KIOSK project, Oberliht Association is calling on artists to come up with proposals for projects and works to be presented in the Flat Space as an intervention in its space.

What is Flat Space?
The Flat Space is a functional replica of a socialist apartment designed by Stefan Rusu and commissioned to represent the identity of the KIOSK project. The starting point for the design in developing the design was the concern to publicly expose the private space of an apartment limited by the standards of socialist society. The open structure of the Flat Space suggests the idea of a module extracted from a block of flats with the basic elements specific to societies in transition: the main facade with a balcony wrapped in double glazing, the living room, the kitchen and a bathroom.
Learn more about this space in this article.
Also, see this video (2013).
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What is the KIOSK project?
The KIOSK project, a cultural information point and a platform for public events, was launched in Chisinau in 2009. It was conceived in a complex social-political context of the transition process, with the intention of promoting contemporary art and youth culture in the public space.
More about the KIOSK project.

What are we looking for?
Please send us your proposals, which could be realized in the Flat Space space (see the plan). You can use the walls, floor and space around the Flat Space. You can also use the illuminated information board similar to the ones placed on the roadside. Projects can make use of the whole space, but can also be limited to just the information panel, or you may want to use the surface of the walls. If selected, your work will be displayed for a limited period of time.

Where can you send your proposal?
Please fill in this google form, and notify us by sending an email to: info(a)oberliht.org
You can attach sketches, photos or texts in the limit of 10 Mb. If your project proposal will be selected we will provide you with the necessary support to present it in the Flat Space.

deadline: ongoing

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CHIOȘC AIR: Hajnalka TULISZ [HU] în rezidență
14 aprilie – 10 mai 2015

Între 14 aprilie și 10 mai 2015, Hajnalka TULISZ va participa la programul de rezidență artistică CHIOȘC la Chișinău, unde va ocupa Apartamentul Deschis cu scopul de a-și construi un adăpost, lăsînd trecătorii să intervină în spațiul ei privat. Prin acest proiect artista se va autotesta, împărtășind cu oamenii din jur locul său intim și vulnerabil pe care-l va crea într-un apartament deschis, situat în stradă.

În aceste zile vă invităm să participați la următorul program public:

15 aprilie 2015, 0ra 18:00
Zpațiu (str. Al. Șciusev 103, Chișinău)
– un portret al artistei de Hajnalka TULISZ
Lucrarea mea de licență a fost realizată în baza unor reacții la contextul ce mă înconjura, mai ales la colegii din facultate. I-am provocat critic printr-un gînd care „duce nicăieri”, care mai curînd sau mai tîrziu va expira și ceea ce-mi place nu va mai putea fi cunoscut. Nu caut nici un răspuns, îmi place doar să inițiez o discuție despre asta. Ce înseamnă independență și autonomie în cazul unui artist? Cît de durabilă e arta „reactivă”, păstrînd distanța față de mine însămi și față de lume?

– proiecția unei selecții de lucrări video ale studenților și absolvenților de la Departamentul Intermedia a Universității Arte Plastice din Ungaria; mai multe detalii aici

7 mai 2015, ora 16:00
Apartamentul Deschis (str. București 68/1, Chișinău)
– Cuibul, prezentarea finală a rezultatelor programului de rezidență artistică

Hajnalka TULISZ este o tînără artistă din Ungaria. Ea a studiat la Departamentul Intermedia a Universității Arte Plastice din Ungaria. În lucrările sale, precum și în felul de a privi lucrurile, ea abordează realitatea într-un mod individual și ironic. Îi place să folosească limbajul doar ca punct de plecare și-l transforme într-o lucrare de artă. Teza ei de licență întitulată Critica Inimii Pure aborda importanța lenii și inutilitatea artei.

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CHIOȘC – program de rezidență pentru artiști
Programul de rezidență pentru artiști CHIOȘC încurajează crearea unor lucrări noi, produse în raport cu contextul și realitățile locale. El oferă posibilitatea de a explora diferite probleme ce se referă la situația Moldovei în general și de a analiza procesele care modelează astăzi spațiul public al Chișinăului.
http://chiosc.oberliht.org/air

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Acest eveniment este parte a programului de rezidență CHIOȘC organizat în cadrul proiectului Conectînd Cultura, Comunitățile și Democrația susținut de Fundația Culturală Europeană. Adițional proiectul este susținut de Studio – Asociația Tinerilor Artiști din Budapesta și Ministerul Culturii al Republicii Moldova.

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KIOSK AIR: Hajnalka TULISZ [HU] in residency
April 14 – May 10, 2015

From the 14th of April to the 10th of May 2015, Hajnalka Tulisz will take part in KIOSK artist in residency program in Chisinau, where she will inhabit the Flat Space with the aim to build a nest as a flat-paraphrase and invite the passers-by to intervene in her private sphere. With this she will also put herself on the test to let in and share with them the intime and vulnerable place which she created with living on an open flat situated on the street.

During these days we invite you to attend the following program:

April 15, 2015, 6 pm
Zpace (str. Al. Sciusev 103, Chisinau)
– artist talk by Hajnalka TULISZ
My graduation work was based on reactions to my actual surroundings, namely to my fellow students. I gave an thought provoking critique, that does “not lead anywhere”, sooner or later it will “run out” and it could not be known what I am really like. I have no answers, I just would like to initiate a discussion about it. What does “independency” and “autonomy” mean in the case of the artist? How timeless the “reactive” art? Keeping distance from myself or from the “world”.

– screening of selected works of art students and alumnus from the Intermedia Department of Hungarian University of Fine Arts; more information here

May 7, 2015, 4 pm
Flat Space (str. Bucuresti 68/1, Chisinau)
– The Nest, public presentation of the final results of the artist in residency programme

Hajnalka TULISZ is a young visual artist from Hungary. She studied at the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. In her works as well as in her thinking in general she approaches the reality with pretended independence in an ironic way. She likes to use the language only as a starting point and transforms it into an artwork. Her undergraduate thesis titled Critique of Pure Heart was dealing with the importance of lazyness, the useless and ‘usefulness’ of art.

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KIOSK AIR program
KIOSK artist in residency program encourages creation of new work in relation to the local context and reality. It offers the opportunity to explore various issues that relate to Moldova’s situation in general and to analyze the processes that shape Chisinau’s public space today.
http://chiosc.oberliht.org/air

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This event is part of KIOSK artist in residency program organized in the frame of Connecting Culture, Communities and Democracy program supported by the European Cultural Foundation. Additionally, it receives support from Studio Young Artists Association, Budapest and Ministry of Culture of Republic of Moldova.

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Din 2013, într-un colț al scuarului din str. București 68, în fața Apartamentului Deschis și în spatele unuia dintre sutele de chioșcuri din Chișinău, o bucată de trotuar a fost schimbată într-o mică grădină. Este doar un triunghi iregulat înconjurat de cărămizi recuperate, completat cu o cantitate rezonabilă de teren negru, gras și, evident, fertil. Pământ adus direct de la țară.

Sâmbăta trecută, în ciuda vremii capricioase noi am decis cu Ghenadie Popescu, artist și inițiatorul ideii, de a lansa o nouă fază de plantare, de a semăna solul cu semințe de floarea-soarelui, în centrul capitalei, cu încălțămintea plină de noroi, acompaniați de zgomotele mașinelor în loc de cântecele păsărilor …

Săpatul solului și trasarea brazdelor într-un mediu urban unde tu trebuie să lovești asfaltul nu este o experiență ciudată. Este un privilegiu și o plăcere foarte mare, care îți oferă o gură de aer proaspăt, în speranță că săpatul acestei umile parcele nu se va opri prea curînd. A fost plăcerea unui moment, prins într-un ocean de beton, dar evadînd și imaginîndu-mi o viață diferită, căutînd un ritm diferit, pur și simplu sperînd la o schimbare.

M-am născut într-un oraș și dau dovadă de o stângăcie teribilă în manipularea unei lopeți. Ghenadie Popescu s-a născut la sat și a lucrat câțiva ani în agricultură: am admirat îndemînarea sa și am urmat cu atenție sfaturile sale. Am fost surprins de împlinirea imediată care părea să i-o aducă această muncă. El mi-a explicat teoria și practica repetînd de cîteva ori: “nu te grăbi și bucură-te de moment”. M-am binedispus repede, am început să contemplez o altă imagine a mea: cea a unui om vesel și liniștit, prelucrînd solul. Am uitat complet de parcarea din jurul meu, alimentîndu-mi fantasmagoriile mele cu izvoare și fluxuri din afară, legate de ceva mai puternic decât obișnuita comunitate de oameni cu obiceiurile lor, fiind o parte a ceva mai profund.

Apoi, Ghenadie mi-a povestit cum el a petrecut cîteva luni la Paris, câțiva ani în urmă, cum s-a plimbat prin oraș impresionat de densitatea istoriei si a artei afișate pe străzi, contemplînd și mereu uitându-se în jur. Un pic uimit, pentru a spune adevărul, de mulțime și strivit de masă, înălțat și la un pas de epuizare. Deja prea obosit pentru a rămîne, el a mirosit din întâmplare ceva neobișnuit pentru un megalopolis – un miros curios de bălegar de cal. Și aceasta i-a dat din nou energie, el se hrănea cu parfumul unei alte lumi.

O bucată surprinzătoare de “altundeva”, pusă unde aceasta nu ar trebui să fie deloc – într-o parcare. Transformarea unei parcări prozaice și disperat funcționale prin reamintirea unui mic și adevărat paradis – o grădină plină de floarea-soarelui.

Orice om are nevoie de un subiect pentru a-și forma visele sale mari. Spațiul unui oraș nu este uniform și are o valoare simbolică. Michel Foucault numește aceasta heterotopie: o localizare fizică ce conține o utopie. Acestea sunt spații concrete ce acomodează imaginația și inconștientul. De la bordeluri la parcuri, spațiul este plin de zone marginale încărcate, cu alte cuvinte deloc neutre. Și ele au o funcție în societate – ele sunt spații ale fanteziei ce răstoarnă organizarea normală a societății.

Cred că grădina a jucat acest rol pentru mine: am trecut o frontieră și m-am regăsit într-o altă lume, depășind împrejurimile fără echivoc. Deși pare minor, eu mi-am reconsiderat stilul meu de viață (ce diferit față de o sâmbătă normală!) și mi-am schițat primele semne a unei alte lumi.

În consecință, ar fi o greșeală să subestimăm puterea latentă a unei grădini de floarea-soarelui, care apare dintr-o dată în mijlocul unei parcări.

Valentin HENAULT, mai 2014
traducere: Diana SANDU

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Public gardening and the possibility of an evasion

Since 2013, in a small corner of the square “Bucharest 68“, facing the Flat Space and behind one of the hundreds of kiosks of Chisinau, a fragment of the sidewalk was changed into a little garden. It’s only an uneven triangle edged by old stones, but it’s filled out with a reasonable quantity of black ground, fatty and obviously fertile. Imported ground, coming directly from the countryside.

Last Saturday, in spite of the capricious weather we decided with Ghenadie Popescu, the artist at the root of the idea, to launch a new planting phase sowing the ground with sunflower seeds. Sowing sunflower seeds in the center of the capital, with muddy shoes, escorted with the car noises instead of the singings birds …

Digging the soil and tracing furrows where you should just pound the pavement in an urban environment is not a strange experience. It’s a privilege and a huge pleasure that gives you a breath of fresh air, hoping that it won’t stop too fast, deploring the humble area covered. It was the pleasure of a moment, trapped in an ocean of concrete but escaping and imagining a different life, suspecting a different rhythm, simply hoping for a change.

I was born in a city and I spread a terrible clumsiness while handling the shovel. Ghenadie Popescu was born in a village and worked some years in agriculture: I admired his ease and followed carefully his advices. I was surprised by the immediate fullness that seemed to bring him this work. He explained me the theory and the practice and repeated few times: “don’t hurry, enjoy the moment”. I was instantly gained by the mood, I was able to contemplate another image of myself: a man gaily and peacefully working the soil. Forgetting completely the cars parked around me, populating my phantasmagoria with springs and streams, coming from outside, linked to something stronger than the mere community of men with their customs, being the part of something more profound.

Then Ghenadie told me a story. He spent few months in Paris some years ago. Walking in the city, impressed by the density of the history and art displayed in the streets, contemplating and constantly looking out. A bit, to say the truth, stunned by the crowd and crushed by the mass, exalted and on the brink of exhaustion. Already too tired to stay, he smelt by chance something unusual in a megalopolis – a curious odor of horse manure. And it gave him his energy back; he fed himself with the fragrance of another world.

A surprising piece of “elsewhere”, put where it absolutely shouldn’t be – on a square full of cars. Transforming a prosaic and extremely functional parking through the recollection of a little and real paradise – a garden full of sunflower.

Any human needs a subject to form his big dreams. The space of a city is not uniform and has a symbolic value. Michel Foucault calls it heterotopia – a physical localization containing a utopia. These are concrete spaces hosting imagination and unconscious. From the whorehouses to the parks, the space is full of loaded marginal areas, in other words not at all neutral. And they have a function within the society: they are spaces of fantasy, inverting the normal organization of the society.

I think that the garden played this role for me: I crossed a border and moved myself in a different world, transcending the unequivocal surroundings. Although it looks inoffensive, I could reconsider my lifestyle (so different from a normal Saturday!) and draft the first signs of another world.

As a consequence, it would be a mistake to underestimate the latent power of a sunflower garden appearing suddenly in the middle of a square.

Valentin HENAULT, May 2014

cîteva luni mai tîrziu / few months later

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Acest eveniment este organizat în cadrul proiectului SPACES al Uniunii Europene. Proiectul SPACES este finanțat de Uniunea Europeană prin Programul Cultural al Parteneriatului Estic.

This event is organized in the frame of the EU project SPACES. The SPACES project is financed by the European Union through the Eastern Partnership Culture Programme.

APEL la PROIECTE pentru APARTAMENT-ul DESCHIS (2014) / CALL for PROJECT PROPOSALS for FLAT SPACE (2014)

APARTAMENT DESCHIS / FLAT SPACE
str. București 68/1, Chișinău

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În cadrul proiectului CHIOȘC – punct de informare cultural / platformă publică de manifestare / SPACES (zone publice durabile pentru cultură în țările din est), Asociația Oberliht invită organizațiile și inițiativele culturale și de tineret și artiști din Moldova să vină cu propuneri de proiecte de artă / lucrări /mesaje care să fie prezentate/afișate în APARTAMENT-ul DESCHIS.

Sîntem dispuși să sprijinim proiectul, intervenția și/sau activitatea voastră oferindu-vă acces la energie electrică și la echipamentul nostru. De asemenea vă putem ajuta cu organizarea evenimentului, dar îl puteți face și pe cont propriu.
Noi vom sprijini proiecte și evenimente care:
– prezintă lucrări de artă și cultură contemporană
– oferă vizibilitate proiectelor realizate de tineri și pentru tineri
– reflectă probleme sociale și oferă modele noi de activism civic
– se adresează locuitorilor cartierului dat și poartă un caracter participativ
– nu urmăresc obținerea unui profit (proiecte și evenimente necomerciale)

Ce oferim
– conexiune la energia electrică
– proiector
– DVD player
– difuzoare de sunet, potrivite pentru o proiecțe de film (însă nu sînt suficient de puternice pentru un concert, de exemplu)
– panou informativ (90 x 160 cm), iluminat 24 ore
– suport pentru cărți poștale (70 x 140 cm)
– puteți utiliza pereții APARTAMENT-ului DESCHIS și scuarul unde este el amplasat și spațiul pentru Protest în Vînt.

Mai multe informatii despre apeluri:
pentru organizațiile și inițiativele culturale și de tineret;
pentru artiști;
despre Protest în Vînt

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In the frame of KIOSK project / SPACES (sustainable public areas for culture in eastern countries), Oberliht Association invites culture, youth organizations and artists from Moldova to submit proposals for art projects / works / messages to be presented/hang out at FLAT SPACE.

We are willing to support your project, intervention and/or activity by offering you access to the electricity and to our equipment. We are also willing to help you organizing the event, but you can also do it on your own.
We are willing to support projects and events that:
– are presenting works of contemporary art and culture
– are giving visibility to projects realized by youth and for youth
– are reflecting on social issues and are offering new models of civic activism
– are addressed to the people living in the neighborhood and have a participative character
– are having non-profit character (non-commercial projects and events)

What we offer
– electricity connection
– beamer
– DVD player
– loudspeakers suitable for film screening, but not loud enough for a concert for example
– Light box (90 x 160 cm), illuminated day and night
– Support for postcards (70 x 140 cm)
– you can use the walls of the FLAT SPACE and the square where it is situated and Wind Protest banner

More informations about the calls:
for culture and youth organizations;
for artists;
about Wind Protest

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În bucătăria Apartamentului Deschis
Balade bolnave / LabbaTrissta / no shagga

APARTAMENT DESCHIS
30 octombrie, 2013, ora 19:00
str. București 68/1, Chișinău

pentru că n-am citit demult pe la cenacluri
pentru că la ultimul concert am ieșit beat
pentru că nu mă vor ei, dar eu îi vreau
pentru că îmi place să recit
și pentru că am stocate atîtea versuri care se roagă să iasă la lumină
am acceptat propunerea Asociației Oberliht
să vin în ospeție la bucătăria lor
hai să rupem scuarul

(streetpoetry & psychodelirium jazz) și poate niște Old School Freestyle

‘intrare liberă’

eveniment organizat in cadrul Civic Fest 2013

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In the kitchen of the Flat Space
Balade bolnave / LabbaTrissta / no shagga

FLAT SPACE
October 30, 2013, 7 p.m.
str. București 68/1, Chisinau

because it’s been a long time since we last read something about the circles,
because I got drunk during the last concert,
because they do not want me, but I want them,
because I like to recite,
and because I have got so many verses that prays to come out
I’ve accepted Oberliht association’s proposal
to come as a guest in their kitchen
Lets get the square on fire,

(streetpoetry & psychodelirium jazz) and maybe some Old School Freestyle

‘free entrance’

event is organized by Civic Fest 2013

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Lanul de păpușoi. Apartamentul deschis s-a ales cu o nouă grădină

La începutul anului 2009, piața situată pe Strada București St. 68 a început să se transforme treptat într-o parcare neautorizată, dar tolerată de către autorități, fapt caracteristic pentru perioada de tranziție prin care a trecut Chișinăul în ultimele două decenii, timp în care a devenit un spațiu mai deschis pentru activități culturale și angajat sociale.

La început, Apartamentul deschis a fost instalat pe o parcelă disponibilă din terenul municipalității, chiar în fața Direcției Cultură a orașului. Ulterior, a fost construită o extensie (link) care are scopul de a găzdui un cinematograf în aer liber, un târg cultural și un teren de sport.

Pe lângă acestea, în apropierea Apartamentului deschis a fost amenajat un gazon cu iarbă verde și construită o parcare de biciclete DIY.

Toate aceste schimbări au fost realizate în colaborare cu diverse persoane, printre care arhitecți, artiști, voluntari.

În iunie 2013, datorită procesului constant de transformare a pieței, sub peretele care servește drept ecran de proiecție pentru filme a fost amenajată o mică grădină. Zona unde aceasta a fost amenajată a fost folosită timp de ani de zile ca parcare pentru o singură mașină aparținând angajaților și conducerii firmelor care închiriază spații de birouri în clădirea din apropiere, folosind-o pe post de parcare privată. Însă nu aceasta era destinația acestui spațiu, la fel ca și a restului pieței care a fost construită inițial ca zonă pietonală.
Privită din această perspectivă, grădina reprezintă un răspuns direct la problema distribuției inegale a spațiului în oraș. Funcționează atât ca instrument de reclamare a spațiului pentru activități care contribuie la dezvoltarea comunității și care pot oferi noi experiențe participanților implicați, cât și ca spațiu care ar putea fi utilizat pentru expunerea lucrărilor artiștilor.

Pentru a susține implementarea acestei idei, l-am invitat pe artistul Ghenadie POPESCU, a cărui propunere a fost plantarea lan de porumb, alături de comunitatea lucrătorilor agricoli din satul Bălțata care ne-au oferit pământ și ne-au împărtășit din expertiza lor.

Ca rezultat al acestei colaborări, a fost plantat lanul de porumb, numit și Mea Mais – un element caracteristic pentru peisajul rural local și introdus în interiorul contextului urban, ca referință la cultura tradițională și la o anumită dimensiune a identității acesteia. Porumbul este planta de bază care a fost cultivată în Moldova de-a lungul secolelor și care a fost utilizată pentru prepararea înlocuitorului local al pâinii, numită mămăligă, de asemenea, un element important în lucrările lui Ghenadie POPESCU prin care oferă un contrast mașinilor de lux importate din străinătate și care ocupă cea mai mare parte a trotuarelor din Chișinăul de astăzi.

Procesul de amenajare a grădinii a constat în câțiva pași importanți:
Înainte de toate, zona a fost curățată și s-a săpat o groapă de 30 cm care a fost umplută cu pietre și bucăți mai mici de sticlă rodată.

Apoi, au fost reciclate câteva sute de cărămizi de la un șantier din apropiere pentru construirea zidurilor grădinii. După colectare, cărămizile au fost aranjate în formă triunghiulară, prin care s-a marcat cadrul viitor al grădinii.

Câteva săptămâni mai târziu, în satul Bălțata, o cantitate de 1,5 tone de sol fertil a fost încărcată în saci și transportată la Chișinău. Am primit-o ca donație din partea comunității agricole din Bălțata (mulțumiri!).

Pe 10 iulie 2013, lucrările pentru grădină au fost finalizate – am umplut cadrul grădinii cu sol bun și negru, fiind consiliați de Eugen ILINSCHI cu privire la grădinărit și întreținere, iar semințele de porumb au fost plantate.

A durat mai puțin de o săptămâna pentru ca porumbul să răsară din pământ și să crească foarte repede – puteți vedea și singuri!

Orice persoană interesată de grădinăritul urban poate veni pe Strada București la nr. 68, pentru a vedea care sunt noile îmbunătățiri ale zonei din apropierea Apartamentului deschis. De asemenea, ne-a rămas o cantitate de sol fertil din grădina noastră și sunteți bineveniți să o luați acasă, pentru plantele dumneavoastră!

Future cornfield at the Flat Space

str. București 68/1, Chișinău

Lanul de Porumb. Apartamentul Deschis s-a ales cu o grădină nouă, un proiect realizat în colaborare cu Ghenadie POPESCU și comunitatea de agricultori din Bălțata.

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Beginning with 2009 the square situated on București St. 68 started to gradually change from an unauthorized, but tolerated by the local authorities, car parking, typical for the transition period that Chisinau was going through during the last two decades, towards a more open space for cultural and socially engaged activities.

The flat space: a cultural information point in a place used as a car parking:

First the Flat Space was installed on a piece of available municipal ground, just in front of the City Cultural Department. Then an extension (link) to it was built in order to host an open-air cinema program, a market space and a sport field.

A screening near the Flat Space, used as an open-air cinema:

Additionally a lawn was planted around Flat Space.

After that, a DIY bicycles parking (link) was installed in its proximity.

All these changes were done in collaboration with various people among them architects, artists, volunteers.

In June of 2013, giving continuity to the ongoing transformation processes on the square, a small garden was designed and built under the wall that serves as a screen for film projections.

The area where it was installed was for many years a one-single-car parking lot appropriated by the office workers and company managers that were renting office spaces inside the building nearby, using it as a private parking place.
However, this space was not supposed to be used this way as well as the rest of the square that was initially designed as a pedestrian zone.

Understood this way the garden represents a direct response to the problem of unequal distribution of space in the city. It serves both as a tool for reclaiming the space for activities that are contributing to the community development and that are able to offer a new experience to the involved participants, as well as a space that could be used for presentation of artists’ works.

In order to help implementing this idea we have invited the artist Ghenadie POPESCU who came with a proposal of a Corn Field and the community of agriculture workers from Baltata village who offered us soil and shared with us their expertise.

As a result of this collaboration the corn field, titled also Mea Mais, was planted – a typical element extracted from the local rural landscape and inserted inside of an urbanized context, a reference to the local culture and to a certain extend to its identity. Corn serves also as a basic crop that was cultivated in Moldova along the centuries and used to cook a type of local bread called mamaliga, an important in its turn element in Ghenadie POPESCU’s work that contrasts with the luxury cars imported from abroad that cover most of the sidewalks of Chisinau streets today.

The process of building the garden consisted of a few important steps. First of all the area was cleaned and a 30 cm deep pit was dug through the filled with stones and smaller pieces of glass ground.

Next, few hundreds of bricks were recycled from a nearby construction site for building the walls of the garden. Once collected the bricks were arranged into a triangular shape, making the future frame of the garden.

Here are some pictures of the construction of the garden’s frame:

Few weeks later, in Baltata village, a quantity of 1,5 tons of fertile soil was loaded in sacs and transported to Chisinau. We got it as a donation from the agriculture community from Baltata (thanks!).

The following pictures show the loading and transportation of the soil from Baltata:

On the 10th of July 2013 the garden was fully finished – we filled the frame of the garden with good, black soil and, while receiving pieces of advice from Eugen ILINSCHI about gardening and its maintenance, the corn seeds were planted.

Here is the making and the result of the garden :

Pictures of the corn

It took less than a week for the corn to appear over the ground and it is growing pretty fast.

Everybody who is interested in urban gardening can come to Bucuresti St. 68, to see the new improvements of the area around the Flat Space. Also, there is still some fertile soil left from our garden, so you are welcome to take it home for your own plants!

CHIOȘC / KIOSK

exhibition with participating artists:
Tonka Maleković [HR] & Ion Fisticanu [MD], Pawel Mendrek [PL] and Ewa Zasada [PL], Krystyna Nikiel [PL], Łukasz Obałek [PL], Jarek Sedlak [CZ], Bartek Skrzyczek [PL], Lesław Tetla [PL], Vladimir Us [MD], Kasia Wolny [PL], Joanna Zdzienicka [PL]

curators: Leslaw Tetla [PL], Vladimir Us [MD]

Rondo Sztuki Galeria +
opening: December 15, 2011, 18:00
address: Rondo im. Gen. Jerzego Ziętka 1, Katowice, Poland
http://rondosztuki.pl
program: 15/12/2011 – 05/01/2012
Tue-Fri: 11:00 – 19:00
Sat-Sun: 10:00 – 18:00
contact: + 48 32 720 11 32

free entrance

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Wystawa Chiosc / Kiosk to rezultat współpracy Pracowni Działań Interdyscyplinarnych Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Katowicach z kuratorem i dyrektorem Stowarzyszenia Artystycznego Oberliht z Kiszyniowa, Vladimirem Us. Tytułowy kiosk to struktura architektoniczna, obiekt inspirowany standardowym mieszkaniem Mołdawskiej SRR. Wobec niemożności oficjalnego, publicznego prezentowania sztuki tzw. podziemia, w latach 70. i 80. popularne stało się “wystawianie” w prywatnych mieszkaniach. Dzisiaj, moduł ten wyjęty z kontekstu osiedla, bloku przez artystę Stefana Rusu i umieszczony na jednym z placów w Kiszynowie- stolicy Republiki Mołdawii w sposób symboliczny przenosi dyskusję z mieszkania w przestrzeń publiczną. Jako otwarta galeria jest miejscem animowania i prezentowania projektów artystycznych, punktem dystrybucji informacji kulturalnej, platformą do spotkania i rozmowy. Na wystawie zaprezentowanych będzie kilka projektów powstałych dla i wokół Chiosku.

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CHIOSC / KIOSK exhibition is the result of collaboration between Interdisciplinary Actions Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice with the curator and president of Young Artists Association Oberliht from Chisinau, Vladimir Us. The eponymous “FLAT SPACE” is an architectural structure inspired by the standard flat in Moldavian SSR. Given the impossibility of open, public exhibition of the artistic underground, in the 1970s and 80s it became popular to host art exhibitions in private homes. Today, this module is removed from the context of block of flats and housing estate by the artist Stefan Rusu and placed on one of the squares in the Moldovan capital Chisinau, thus symbolically taking the discussion from the flat into public space. As an open gallery, it is a place for animating and presenting artistic projects, cultural information point and a platform for meetings and talks. The exhibition will present several projects created for and around FLAT SPACE.

http://www.rondosztuki.pl/wydarzenie.php?id=429
http://asp.katowice.pl/news/post/497/chiosc-kiosk

INTERVENTIONS
http://www.oberliht.org.md/interventii2.html
http://www.oberliht.org.md/interventii3.html

At a time when FLAT SPACE existed only as a file in the drawers of the city administration, the activities anticipating the KIOSK project were already taking place. INTERVENTIONS2 (2007) – consisting of a series of exploratory walks through the city as a means of documenting, with the help of photography, places of power and control, processes of gentrification, the invisible and left over spaces or non-places – was followed, in 2008, by INTERVENTIONS3, a new edition which involved more than thirty participants from several European countries who were invited to reflect on the processes that have been shaping Chisinau’s public space. This particular activity, organized as an artist-in-residency program and consisting of walking tours, public presentations, screenings and other events, resulted in a series of ephemeral interventions throughout Chisinau and its suburbs, transforming the city into a plateau for research, a space for production and exhibition, where the artists could meet and interact with the public.
The general concern with the public space issue enhancing both projects’ objectives and the need to influence the existing public policies and local authorities to extend the access to public space and allow its less restricted usage have prepared the ground for a more permanent structure to be installed in the city (excerpt from KIOSK catalogue, Chisinau 2011).

KIOSK PROJECT
cultural information point / public platform for participation
http://chiosc.oberliht.org/chiosc

When several years ago artists and theorists began to deal with the influence of the quickly spreading capitalism that was paving the way for holders of private property, and analyze its consequences within the urban (post-socialist) space, in some cases the kiosk was seen as the man in the street’s answer to the radical economic changes taking place in Eastern Europe. Small-scale private enterprise markets taking various forms (kiosks, vendor tables, stools, fridges, cars etc.) invaded the streets and public spaces, becoming the arena for a new citizen-driven economic model within the regulated capitalist environment.

In 2009 another type of kiosk was launched in Chisinau, aiming to provide an alternative within a cultural sector dominated by institutions inherited from the Communist period: the KIOSK project, embodied in FLAT SPACE, a cultural information point and a platform for public participation initiated by the Oberliht association. Installed on a tiny segment of municipal ground, squeezed in between cars aggressively taking over the sidewalks, FLAT SPACE plays the role of an active agent of bottom-up civic involvement, understanding cultural engagement as social action capable of producing a critical culture. The activities built around it address, in its immediate surroundings, the urgent question of public space. In a broader way the project offers the basis for the analysis of the cultural, social and political realities of one of Europe’s suburbs (excerpt from KIOSK catalogue, Chisinau 2011).

WORKS

Tonka Maleković [HR] and Ion Fisticanu [MD]
POSSIBILITY OF THE CITY / FOUNTAIN CITY
Between 4 and 12 of July 2009, Croatian artist Tonka Maleković took part as artist in residency in the frame of KIOSK project, in Chisinau, initiated by Oberliht, young artists association. For this occasion she developed a project POSSIBILITY OF THE CITY in collaboration with Moldovan artist Ion Fisticanu.
http://chiosc.oberliht.org/air/

Influenced by the artwork of Ion Fisticanu (“Cities on the roof of my house / INTERVENTIONS3, 2008”), Tonka Maleković connected his idea with her own preoccupations about how to develop relationship with the public space through the play, imagination and improvisation, in direct participation. Therefore, she proposed Ion collaboration, expanding the frame of the original work by positioning it within the wider concept and inviting more people to join in. The idea was simple: to walk, to observe, to play, to construct improvised constellations representing cities using the materials found on the spot, on various locations all over the city of Chisinau.
Rethinking the public space and one’s relation towards it, very often makes the basis of the work of Tonka Maleković. Possibility of the City project continues along this line. On metaphorical level it speaks about the city as a possibility, and its citizens as creators of the new urban realities. (excerpt from Oberliht Supplement | SoE, July 2009).

Pawel Mendrek [PL] and Ewa Zasada [PL]
FOUNTAIN. RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE PROJECT FROM NOW TILL TODAY

“Reconstruction of a construction. Critical reconstruction. (Re)construction for now.”

The project by Ewa and Paweł reconstructs a fragment of a dilapidated fountain in Chisinau (the location is not without significance), which will dissolve with time and again reveal a certain lack. The form made of soap reconstructs the missing part not so much provisionally as temporarily. It fills a gap in the form – not just an aesthetic object, but on the symbolic level – in the system it represents.
Persistence of systems, all of which have a touch of utopia “eroded” with time by the rapid current of life, proves momentary. In the words of Zygmunt Bauman, u-via replaces u-topia, and the temporality of the proposed reconstruction is “the collapse of long-term thinking”, by Małgorzata Szandała

Krystyna Nikiel [PL]
MOLDOVA?
More than the object itself, what interested me was the place where it is located. I began an intense “exploration” of Moldova, recording this process in photography and pencil. These activities lead me to the home of Ms Nona who comes from Moldova. However, I had a long and surprising journey before I got there.

Łukasz Obałek [PL]
MIRROR SPACE
I am showing the FLAT SPACE model fully covered in mirrors – it is my response to being asked for a comment on the reality of Moldova. I am aware that any artistic expression of the living conditions in an unfamiliar place can be easily interpreted as empty demagogy. Snatches of information from many different sources are hardly sufficient to form an opinion of the situation in a foreign country. What information reaches us, creates an image of a country in the period of political and mental transformation, with typical accompanying problems. Currently, mostly due to the development of the Internet, the changes are becoming faster and generate new expectations. For me this is the source of the manual interface of these ambitions that FLAT SPACE is.
The mirrored object in one of the squares in Chisinau will by itself comment on the surroundings.

Jarek Sedlak [CZ]
POWER TO FLOWERS
… 500 flowers in a real fight against 20 cars at least
… searching for bits of sensitivity for public space in drivers’ mentality
… bring your own flowers and plant them at Bucuresti 68 str. in Chisinau
During his residency in Chisinau, in collaboration with Oberliht Association, Jarek Sedlak has produced a work composed of 500 flowers that were planted on the square from Bucuresti str. 68, restricting this way the transport circulation on the square and keeping it free of cars during one day. This allowed the ordinary users of the square to project their own ideas for the suddenly free place, making space for imagination and play.
http://chiosc.oberliht.org/2011/05/09/putere-florilor-power-to-flowers/

Bartek Skrzyczek [PL]
My project on the socio-political situation in Moldova takes the form of game simulation. Black background with military symbols (tanks, grenades, guns) sized 440 × 280 cm has been divided by dotted lines into 40 × 40 cm squares. There is interaction on the board: each wallpaper square corresponds to one Moldovan ornament.
As an individual I have no way of changing world politics. Actually, I have little influence even on my immediate surroundings. The possibility of change is just a wish. I would like any person to be able to decide their fate, shape and creatively criticize reality. The awareness of potential change is in itself a change.

Lesław Tetla [PL]
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The project “…” is connected with resident lists/intercoms located at the entrances to blocks of flats. Due to personal data protection regulations, residents choose if they want to make their names public or not. As a result of their decision to remain anonymous, many lists are composed mostly of empty spaces with flat numbers. While documenting intercoms at housing estates in many cities I came across a meaningful example. On a long list with just flat numbers there was only one name – J. Nowak. As it is the most common name in Poland, it means just as much as another number. For my project I consulted the statistics of most common last names in Poland and Moldova.

Vladimir Us [MD]
STEFAN CEL MARE BOULEVARD
Stefan cel Mare si Sfint Boulevard, which stands today for the main boulevard in Chisinau, is a research project through which I would like to reveal the names that this particular street had in the past, thus unveiling the past and present mechanisms that stay behind the process of writing the history. The name of Stefan cel Mare si Sfînt was attributed to this street in 1990, when Republic of Moldova became an independent state after the fall of the Soviet Union. In the process of research I found out that this particular street has changed its name at least seven times, changes that were operated under different regimes in the past.

Kasia Wolny [PL]
LARGE PANEL
The idea behind „Large Panel” is to draw attention to details in blocks of flats built of prefabricated concrete panels, which usually go unseen by the residents accustomed to their presence and character. The interiors photographed were constructed in a way that defies craftsmanship and common sense. They create a dream-like and surreal atmosphere. Photographs arranged into imperfect collages filled with detail express the absurd nature of the spaces portrayed.

Joanna Zdzienicka [PL]
KIOSK / PLASTIC GARDEN
I am familiar with the activities of Oberliht Association and FLAT SPACE as public platform for participation from Chisinau mostly from stories. Moldova seems quite an exotic country to me. My works are directly inspired by the images that form my source of information about this place. One of them is the photograph of FLAT SPACE model, which functions as the unofficial logo of this space. Another is a newspaper photograph documenting the “Plastic Garden” action. Turning these images into paintings allows me to come in touch with the subject and familiarize the form in my own artistic language.

WIND PROTEST
http://chiosc.oberliht.org/protest/

Wind Protest is initially an artistic intervention connected to the April 2009 events that took place in Chisinau. It was realized by Diana Arosio, Helen Brandt, Felix Reisbeck and Vladimir Us and was presented in the FLAT SPACE. The work itself makes reference to the freedom of expression and access to information. The public was invited to write their statements, opinions and feelings related to 7th of April events down on a piece of cloth that were presented later publicly in the balcony of the FLAT SPACE. The intention of this work is to communicate differently, more effectively and without violence.
In 2011 inside the balcony at FLAT SPACE the works of 8 of March Public Action [MD], Campaign for supporting the GHOST Pavilion of Republic of Moldova [MD], Art Workers Coalition, 1969 [US], artistic groups focAR [RO] (Alina TUDOR and Razvan NEAGOE) and Monotremu [RO], artists Dan Perjovschi [RO], Janos Sugar [HU] were presented.

CULTURAL INFORMATION POINT AT FLAT SPACE
In connection to the [oberlist] mailing list, which covers the arts field with different regional focuses, the Cultural Information Point offers news and announcements from various European countries. Open calls for artistic projects, artist in residency programs, art news, and announcements for local cultural events are regularly displayed there.
[oberlist] is an electronic free of charge service that is offered to artists, curators, cultural workers, managers and activists, policy makers, art lovers etc. from both Eastern and Western Europe but also Black Sea and other regions in the world thus establishing premises for future cooperation in Europe. It started as a community of students from Art Institute in Chisinau and evolved to a platform representative for many contemporary art and culture initiatives: http://www.oberliht.com/oberlist

The visitors will also be able to consult various publications edited by Oberliht Association.

- POSTBOX magazine – literature, art, attitude: http://plic.oberliht.com
– Oberliht Supplement: http://www.oberliht.com/supliment
– Notes for a People’s Atlas of Public Space in Chisinau: http://atlasofchisinau.wordpress.com
– catalogues and other publications

partners:
Young Artists Association Oberliht: http://oberliht.com
Kalmar Konstmuseum: http://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se
4AM Fórum pro architekturu a média, Brno: http://www.forum4am.cz
Slobodne veze/ Loose Associations, Zagreb: http://slobodneveze.wordpress.com

imagini de la expoziție / images from the exhibition:

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My home este casa ta

expoziţie de Diana AROSIO
19 – 31 martie 2010

APARTAMENT DESCHIS
str. Bucuresţi 68/1, Chișinău

Casa este unul din lucrurile cele mai importante în viaţa unui om, iar prin intermediul My home este casa ta vreau să demonstrez că APARTAMENT-ul DESCHIS este o casă ce aparţine oraşului. Dacă urmăreşti subiectul şi simbolurile vei începe să cunoşti apartamentul şi să te simţi în el ca acasă. Vreau ca apartamentul să fie o bucăţică din casa ta, un loc în care te poţi întoarce mereu.

Diana AROSIO este o tînără artistă din Italia, voluntară în cadrul Serviciului european de voluntariat, care lucrează la Asociaţia Oberliht şi se afla în Moldova pînă la sfîrşitul anului curent. A creat acest proiect în colaborare cu Felix Reisbeck, Helen Brandt şi Vladimir Us, cu intenţia de a face APARTAMENT-ul DESCHIS mai accesibil publicului.

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My home este casa ta

exhibition by Diana AROSIO
March 19 – 31, 2010

FLAT SPACE
str. Bucuresti 68/1, Chișinău

A home is one of the most important things in a person’s life and I want with My home este casa ta show that FLAT SPACE is a home belonging to the city. If you follow the line and symbols you will get to know the flat and feel familiar with it. I want the flat to be a piece of your own home that you always can come back to. The title refers to the Spanish saying “Mi casa es tu casa”.

Diana Arosio is a young Italian artist who is a European Voluntary Service volunteer working at Oberliht Association till the end of this year. In collaboration with Felix Reisbeck, Helen Brandt and Vladimir Us she created her project, aiming to make FLAT SPACE more accessible to the public.