CHIOȘC/KIOSK exhibition
Galéria HIT, Bratislava
April 17 – May 10, 2013
April 17, 2013, 6pm – opening

Eternal Play 2012, a film by Paula DURINOVA – screening
April 17, 2013, 8pm

http://www.galeriahit.com
http://chiosc.oberliht.org

participants: AREA Chicago, Aliona BALAN and Alexandru LOZINSCHI, Nataša BODROŽIĆ, Maxim CUZMENCO, Paula DURINOVA, Michal HOLY, Tonka MALEKOVIĆ and Ion FISTICANU, Ștefan RUSU, Jarek SEDLAK, Spălătorie Theatre, Gruppo Tökmag, Vadim ȚÎGANAȘ, Vladimir US.

curator: Vladimir US

Diana AROSIO, Ivy. Plastic Garden, installation, 2010

CHIOȘC/KIOSK project articulates and expresses the need for alternative cultural infrastructure to be created in Chisinau – a city where the cultural life is still dominated by institutions established during the Soviet period – as a model for sharing, education, production and presentation of socially engaged artistic practices.

Jarek SEDLAK, Power to Flowers, installation, 2011

The exhibition presented in HIT takes form of a furnished flat, thus making reference to the FLAT SPACE – a functional replica of a socialist apartment designed by Stefan Rusu and commissioned to represent the identity of KIOSK/CHIOȘC project. In its turn, the FLAT SPACE was conceived as a response to the existing self-sufficient and closed system of cultural institutions that is continuously supported by the Moldovan state within an outdated cultural policy framework.

The other important reference that FLAT SPACE has is the phenomenon of the apartment exhibitions that took place in the mid of 70s, in bigger cities in USSR like Leningrad, Moscow or Odessa, organized by artists whose works got censored or banned from being exhibited in the official exhibition halls.

Today, many years later, FLAT SPACE can still be read as an apartment exhibition space due to the lack of support that contemporary art and culture receive from the authorities of the recently-born independent Moldovan state, thus being marginalized and reduced to an invisible phenomenon.

In the course of 2009-2012 KIOSK/CHIOȘC project supported artists, architects, curators and activists to project new functions and sometimes add a different significance to the inherited social (in the past controlled by the Soviet state) space, by extending the limits of what could become later a public space and by inviting new actors to step in, thus opening the process of city planning and space distribution to other previously excluded social groups.

The current exhibition presents the works created by local and invited in the frame of KIOSK/CHIOȘC artist in residency program participants. By making use of abandoned, underused or mono-functional public spaces the artists along with Chișinău inhabitants, open new spaces of dialogue and critical reflection, and observation of the recent public space transformations, questioning in the same time the established order and the existing regulations along with the authority that maintains them.

The outcomes of these interventions and the reactions to them should encourage us to rethink the role that art could play and the artist could have when working in and with the public domain, regaining and opening new space of interaction in a landscape dominated by private political and economic interests.

În august 2012 cîteva colective de arhitecți din Cehia, Georgia, Moldova și Romănia, împreună cu un grup de sociologi și artiști, au intervenit pe lăngă Apartamentul Deschis din str. București 68 din Chișinău, prin a extinde spațiul Apartamentului și a amplasa o platformă ce urma să ofere noi funcționalități spațiului din jur, cum ar fi un cinema în aer liber, piață, teren sportiv sau colțul cetățeanului. Acest lucru s-a petrecut în cadrul proiectului SPACES (zone publice durabile pentru cultură în țările din est: http://chisineu.wordpress.com/proiecte/centrul-civic-cinema/). Intervenția avea și scopul transformării scuarului public din str. București 68, devenit între timp o parcare ilegală, într-un spațiu pietonal și prietenos oamenilor, fapt care a deranjat administrația blocului în care se află Direcția Cultură a Municipiului Chișinău, care, se pare, intenționează să readucă mașinile în scuar. Astfel, se produce o disensiune în viziuni asupra funcționalității acestui scuar și rolului său public.

Vă invităm sa comentați acest fapt, iar celor interesați am putea oferi mai multe informații despre proiectul CHIOȘC și activităților din cadrul acestuia, cum ar fi acțiunea “Putere Florilor” de Jarek Sedlak [CZ]: http://chiosc.oberliht.org/2011/05/09/putere-florilor-power-to-flowers/.

Găsiți o relatare și pe site-ul studioBASAR: http://www.studiobasar.ro/?p=4271

Totodată o să vă ținem la curent cu evoluția situației din scuarul B68, si sperăm să găsim un sprijin în unii din voi privind dezvoltarea acestui proiect.

Vă mulțumim.

Programul CENTRUL CIVIC al CHIȘINĂULUI – cinema în aer liber este organizat în cadrul proiectului SPACES al Uniunii Europene. Proiectul SPACES este finanțat de Uniunea Europeană prin Programul Cultural al Parteneriatului Estic.

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:

Shaping the NEW – expoziție de o zi / one day exhibition

APARTAMENT DESCHIS / FLAT SPACE
8 septembrie 2011, ora 14:00-19:00
str. Bucuresti 68/1, Chisinau

În lunile aprilie-mai 2011, 5 artisti din Republica Moldova, Cehia, Polonia, Ungaria și Slovacia au participat la un schimb de reședințe artistice organizate drept parte a proiectului Shaping the NEW. Rezultatele acestui proiect vor fi prezentate publicului din Chisinau joi, 8 septembrie 2011 la APARTAMENT DESCHIS, sub forma unei expozitii / instalatii de o zi, specifice locului – transformind scuarului din str. Bucuresti 68 din Chisinau dintr-o parcare auto intr-un spatiu de arta.

In April – May 2011, 5 artists from Republic of Moldova, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia took part in the artist in residency exchange program organized in the frame of Shaping the NEW project. The results of the residencies will be presented to the publics in Chisinau on 8 of September 2011 at FLAT SPACE, in the form of an exhibition / one day site-specific installation, aiming to transform the square from Bucuresti str. 68 from a car parking into an art space.

participanti / participants

Michaela BOTTKOVA
I am Slovak new media artist and I am in second class of my master degree in Kosice Fine art school. 24 years old, born in Nitra and I focus in my works on photography, video, interactive installations. The main theme use to be human being and his feelings.
5 months, 2 weeks and 3 days {that long was my sickness} – is about me and my mind and feelings during my illness. Documentation of installation can show you 3 different views of the same thing / window which was in front of me all the time and I could not go outside.

Balazs KOVACS

Balázs Kovacs (*1980), philosopher, electronic musician, media artist, head of the Moire Association for Culture and Periszkop Radio, Pecs. In my works I use found objects, mechanic devices and electronic control for creating movement, network interaction, sound.
If the target of a residency is to let the artist stay abroad, then for me it was successful – i like Brno, similar to my hometown.

Karina MARUSINSKA

Karina Marusinska is a graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (Ceramics Design). She studied under scholarship programs at Pais Vasco University in Bilbao, Spain (2007) and at the Institute of Ceramics in Guebwiller, France (2008). She is a manifold scholar, laureate of nationwide and international prizes; participation in numerous exhibitions, symposia, plein-airs and festivals in both her home country and abroad.
In her two month residency in Kosice, Karina Marusinska was researching about waste and culture. She wanted to find out, what trash says about the city and its inhabitants as well as which role plays culture in the further European capital of culture. Marusinska connected both topics to an sensible insight view into the society of Kosice and recorded it in the video documentation “power of waste”. Also, she wrote several letters to key players in the city (major, dirctor of Kosice 2013 etc.) to ask for building up trash bins for culture all over the city.

Ghenadie POPESCU

On May 13 – 14. 2011 the 11th Wheelbarrow Olympics (Hung: “Talicskaolimpia”) took place in Hosszúhetény, a Hungarian village close to Pécs. This event is dedicated to the wheelbarrow, so sport events as well as cultural events connected to this vehicle took place. As this is one of Ghenadie Popescus favourite tools, naturally he also took part – not in the competitions, but with a unique sculpture, exclusively designed and built for this event (link).

Jarek SEDLAK

Young Czech architect, born in Brno, working with public space. Lived in Finland, Tampere and in Netherlands, Amsterdam. In 2010 was working in Prague, in Office Po and Vasi/Architekti in Brno.
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 (link). He has also coordinated a workshop for local artists and architects that resulted in a series of proposals for the Bucuresti 68 square (details here).

parteneri / partners

Kasarne Kulturpark, Kosice, Slovacia kosice2013.sk
ART TRANSPARENT Foundation, Wroclaw/Zmigrod, Polonia arttransparent.org
4AM Forum for architecture and media, Brno, Cehia forum4am.cz
Nikolaus Lenau Cultural Association, Pécs, Ungaria lenau.hu

finantatori / sponsors

Visegrad Fund
Robert Bosch Foundation
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Goethe Institut Bratislava
goethe.de/ins/sk/bra

suport tehnic / technical support

Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana, Chisinau [ksa:k] art.md

suport media / support

Revista la PLIC plic.oberliht.com

14.06.2011, ora 19:30, Sala Frescelor
Universitatea de Arhitectură și Urbanism Ion Mincu din București

Calitatea de locuitor al unui oras presupune si dreptul de a interveni in spatiul public. Acesta insa tinde sa devina din ce in ce mai mult un alt bun de consum, ce se supune mai degraba legilor economiei de piata, marketing-ului economic si politic, facind astfel interventiile imposibile, inutile sau invizibile.
Vladimir Us ne va povesti despre fereastra de aer curat pe care a reusit sa o deschida asociatia Oberliht in Chisinau incepind cu anul 2000 si vom urmarii filmul Interventii 3, autori Natasa Bodrozic si Vladimir Us, urmat de prezentarea proiectului Chiosc – punct de informare cultural si platforma publica de participare. Alaturi de Vladimir US il vom avea prezent si pe tinarul arhitect Jarek SEDLAK din Brno, Republica Ceha, s-a aflat intr-o rezidenta la Chisinau in cadrul proiectului Shaping the New.

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RO
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27 mai 2011, ora 18:00
B68 – zonă liberă / spațiu de artă, expoziție
2+2 (Alexandru RAEVSCHI și Ruxanda STEFANOV), Valeria BARBAS, Victor BUZU, Jarek SEDLAK, Vladimir US
perioada: 27 mai – 27 iunie, 2011

27 mai 2011, ora 21:00
Orange Alternative, 1988, proiecție
limba: polonă, subtitre: engleza
22’19’’
Lutin President, 2003, proiecție
limba: polonă, subtitre: franceză
37’20’’

APARTAMENT DESCHIS
str. București 68/1, Chișinău
http://chiosc.oberliht.org

Expoziția “B68 – zonă liberă / spațiu de artă” prezintă cîteva proiecte și idei concepute de un grup de tineri artiști și arhitecți din Chișinău. Pe această cale urmărim să oferim chișinăuienilor un exemplu cum ar putea scuarul din str. București 68 să acomodeze diverse activități, pentru a deveni, ulterior, un loc cu adevărat public.
Expoziția a fost realizată în urma atelierului condul de Jarek SEDLAK, tînăr arhitect din Brno, Republica Cehă, ca parte a proiectului Shaping the New.
Lucrările pot fi văzute pînă la data de 27 iunie 2011, ulterior acestea urmînd a fi prezentate în orașul Kosice din Slovacia, selectat pentru a fi Capitala Culturală Europeană în 2013.

Cu ocazia acestui eveniment vă invităm să vizitați blog-ul B68 – zonă liberă / spațiu de artă (http://bucuresti68.wordpress.com) unde veti putea afla mai multe despre situația acestui scuar și evenimentele care urmează a fi organizate în el.

Seara se va termina cu o proiecție a 2 lucrări video despre Alternativa Oranj din Polonia.

str. București 68
Spre deosebire de orașele din europa de vest, Chișinăul a beneficiat de spații publice deschise și accesibile. Perioada de tranziție ce a urmat declarației de independență a Republicii Moldova avea să modifice radical această situație. În general, se observă o tendință a statului de a se retrage de la menținerea spațiului urban și de a renunța la menținerea altor servicii publice.
În urma procesului de privatizare, care s-a petrecut în lipsă de transparență și în afara unui control, suprafața spațiilor publice a fost redusă drastic, determinând dispariția multor locuri cu o menire publică, cum ar fi terenurile de joc, parcurile și grădinile din zonele rezidențiale. La fel a avut de suferit infrastructura culturală și cea destinată sportului – unele stadioane au fost demolate, iar altele au fost transformate în piețe sau parcări pentru mașini. Acest lucru a fost urmat de o reducere a spațiilor verzi în favoarea unor noi blocuri destinate pentru oficii, birouri și locuințe private.
În acest context, lipsită de resurse și din cauza situației sale încă nesigure, autoritatea publică locală se poziționează mai curînd în calitate de negociator între interesul public și interesul investitorului privat, deseori aprobînd scenarii care transformă spatiul public urban într-un platou reprezentativ pentru puterea politică sau într-un paravan publicitar pentru posesorii de capital, în consecință fiind excluse multe alte grupuri subreprezentate.

În urma acestor procese scuarul din str. București 68 din Chișinău a fost transformat și el într-o parcare de mașini ilegală, iar funcția sa publică pare să nu mai fie relevantă și nu mai figurează în agenda zilei a autorităților publice locale.

Existenta unor spații libere de economie și de control statal, unde lucruri de importanță publică să fie discutate de către cetățeni, încă reprezintă o condiție necesară pentru democratizarea societății. Astfel că rolul nostru ar putea fi cel de încurajare a inițiativelor civice în vederea păstrării spațiilor publice și menținerii accesibilităţii lor pentru comunitate, prin reconfigurarea lor în niște platforme care să răspundă unor scopuri educaționale, de acțiune socială, care să conecteze oamenii și să contribuie la formarea unor rețele, să încurajeze dezbaterile publice și să identifice soluții pentru conflictele existente.

Vladimir US

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May 27 2011, 6 pm
B68 – free zone / art space, exhibition
2+2 (Alexandru RAEVSCHI și Ruxanda STEFANOV), Valeria BARBAS, Victor BUZU, Jarek SEDLAK, Vladimir US
period: May 27 – June 27, 2011

May 27 2011, 9 pm
Orange Alternative, 1988, screening
language: Polish, subtitles: English
22’19’’
Lutin President, 2003, screening
language: Polish, subtitles: French
37’20’’

FLAT SPACE
Bucuresti str. 68/1, Chisinau
http://chiosc.oberliht.org

“B68 – free zone / art space” presents few ideas conceived by a group of young artists and architects from Chisinau. Our intention is to present to city dwellers various examples how the square situated on Bucuresti str. 68 could start hosting different activities in order to become a true public space.
The exhibition was realized as a follow up of the workshop led by Jarek SEDLAK, young architect from Brno, Czech Republic, in the frame of Shaping the New project.
The proposals are on view till June 27 2011. They will also be presented in Kosice, Slovakia, selected as European Cultural Capital 2013.

You are also welcome to visit the B68 – free zone / art space blog (http://bucuresti68.wordpress.com) where you’ll be able to learn more about the situation of this square and about the events that are planned to take place in it.

The evening will end up with a screening of 2 videos about Orange Alternative in Poland.

Bucuresti str. 68, Chisinau
Unlike cities from Western Europe, Chisinau benefited of open and accessible public spaces. The transition period following the declaration of independence of Republic of Moldova was going to radically change this situation. There is a general tendency of the state to withdraw its involvement in the maintenance of the urban space and to give up other public services.
Further to the privatisation process that lacked transparency and took place without any control, the public spaces area was dramatically reduced, which lead to the disappearance of many spaces with public functions such as playgrounds, parks and gardens in residential areas. Cultural and sports infrastructure was also altered – some sports grounds were demolished and others were turned into markets or car parks. It was followed by a reduction of green areas in favour of the new buildings for offices and private flats.
In this context, lacking resources and due to a yet uncertain situation, the local public authority rather positions itself as negotiator between public interest and the interest of the private investor, often endorsing scenarios turning urban space into a representative field for the political power or into an advertising board for capital owners, thus excluding many other under-represented groups.

As a follow up the square situated on Bucuresti Street 68 in Chisinau has turned into an illegal parking zone for cars, while its original public function doesn’t represent an interest to the local public authorities and is not present on their agenda anymore.

The existence of spaces free of economy and state control, where matters of public importance are discussed by citizens still represent a prerequisite to the democratisation of society. Therefore, our role should be that of encouraging civic initiatives with view to preserving public spaces and maintaining them available for the community, by reconfiguring them into platforms, which may answer to educational purposes, of social action, which may interrelate people and contribute to the formation of networks, and encourage public debates, and identify solutions for existing conflicts.

Vladimir US

RO
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12 mai, 2011, ora: 14:00 – prezentare publica “Arhitectura cehă astăzi” oferita de Jarek SEDLAK
Universitatea Tehnica din Moldova, catedra Arhitectura
(bd. Dacia 39, Chisinau, blocul 9, etajul 4, sala 318)

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May 12, 2011, 2 pm - public presentation “Czech Architecture Now”, by Jarek SEDLAK
Moldova Technical University, architecture department
(39 Dacia bd., Chisinau, 9th block, 4th floor, room 318)

APEL DE PARTICIPARE (versiunea PDF)

in atentia arhitectilor, urbanistilor, artistilor, curatorilor si reprezentatilor altor domenii

In perioada 7-14 mai 2011, la Chisinau va avea loc atelierul ‘bucuresti 68 – zona de arta libera’ condus de Jarek SEDLAK, tinar arhitect ceh nascut in Brno. El a locuit in orasele Tampere, Finlanda si Amsterdam, Olanda. Anul trecut a lucrat in birourile de arhitectura PO din Praga si VASI/ARCHITEKTI din Brno, Cehia. In prezent il preocupa proiectele pentru spatiul public, unul dintre care a fost realizat sub forma unei interventii in orasul Pardubice din Cehia si avea titlul de ‘Living room / Camera de zi’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHZVCGcJ9ik&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUDiXCWkRqw&NR=1

Atelierul ‘bucuresti 68 – zona de arta libera’ este organizat in cadrul proiectului “Shaping the NEW” care consta intr-un schimb de resedinte intre orasele Brno/Cehia, Chisinau/Moldova, Kosice/Slovacia, Pecs/Ungaria si Wroclaw/Polonia: http://chiosc.oberliht.org/2011/03/28/shaping-the-new-workshop/

In cadrul atelierului va fi abordata problema spatiilor publice din Chisinau cu un accent pus pe scuarul din str. Bucuresti 68, cu intentia transformarii acestuia in Zona de Arta Libera.
La acest moment scuarul din str. Bucuresti 68 este transformat intr-o parcare mono-functionala. Prin intermediul atelierului vom incerca sa identificam si sa propunem noi functii publice pentru acest scuar.
Atelierul va fi organizat in citeva etape: calatorii in oras, discutii colective, lucru individual urmat de o sesiune de evaluare la finalul atelierului.
Propunerile finale trebuie sa fie eficiente in raport cu un buget de productie redus.
Atelierul va fi condus in limba engleza. Traducerea in romana va fi asigurata partial.

Pentru a lua parte la atelier va rugam sa expediati urmatoarele date pina la 5 mai 2011, la urmatoarea adresa email: vladimir@oberliht.org.md

-        o scurta scrisoare de motivatie (pina la 50 cuvinte)
–        va rugam sa recomandati/descrieti un loc public in Chisinau in care va simtiti bine si care are functii publice (indicati adresa acestuia in perimetrul strazilor: Mateevici, Mihai Viteazul, Albisoara si Ismail)
–        va rugam sa numiti/descrieti un loc public din Chisinau in care nu va simtiti bine si care si-a pierdut functia sa publica (indicati adresa acestuia in perimetrul strazilor: Mateevici, Mihai Viteazul, Albisoara si Ismail)
–        expediati Curriculum Vitae si indicati datele de contact (email, telefon fix, telefon mobil, daca este cazul) sub forma unei anexe.
Participantii selectati vor fi anuntati prin email/telefon pina la data de 6 mai 2011.

PROGRAMUL ATELIERULUI

7 mai, 2011, ora: 14:00 – turul orasului 1 (spatii publice in care ne simtim bine) – 3 ore
8 mai, 2011, ora: 14:00 – turul orasului 2 (spatii publice in care nu ne simtim bine) – 3 ore
9 mai, 2011, ora: 15:00 – Bucuresti 68 / Zona de Arta Libera – 3 ore
10 mai, 2011, ora: 15:00 – ARThotel, atelier (ziua 1) – 3 ore
11 mai, 2011, ora: 15:00 – ARThotel, atelier (ziua 2) – 3 ore
12 mai, 2011, ora: 14:00 – prezentare publica “Arhitectura contemporana din Cehia” oferita de Jarek SEDLAK, Universitatea Tehnica din Moldova, catedra Arhitectura (bd Dacia 39, Chisinau, blocul 9, etajul 4, sala 318)
12 mai, 2011, ora: 16:00 – ARThotel, atelier (ziua 3) – 2 ore
13 mai, 2011, ora: 15:00 – ARThotel, atelier (ziua 4), prezentarea proiectelor finale si evaluarea rezultatelor – 3 ore
14 mai, 2011, ora: 15:00 – Bucuresti 68 / Zona de Arta Libera, prezentarea publica a rezultatelor atelierului

PARTENERI

Kasarne Kulturpark, Kosice, Slovacia http://www.kosice2013.sk
ART TRANSPARENT Foundation, Wroclaw/Zmigrod, Polonia http://www.arttransparent.org
4AM Forum for architecture and media, Brno, Cehia http://www.forum4am.cz
Nikolaus Lenau Cultural Association, Pecs, Ungaria http://www.lenau.hu
Universitatea Tehnica a Moldovei, Catedra Arhitectura http://www.utm.md

CONTACT

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email: vladimir@oberliht.org.md

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