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and closed system of cultural institutions that is continuously supported by the Moldovan state within an outdated cultural policy framework.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.

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Aceste zile sînt cîteva lucrări în Apartamentul Deschis:
Cîteva de zile în urma, am găsit acest frumos cadou din partea grupului Papergirl (am luat ultimul “love”, ne pare rău, dar încă aveam o mulțime de “passion”)

Încă ceva: am început să afișăm citate și concluzii de la grupul de lectură Spații publice în postsocialism, care se întîlnește fiecare luni și joi la muzeu Zemstvei. Credem că nu există un loc mai bun pentru afișarea acestor citate decât într-o construcție post-socialistă care și-a găsit locul în spațiul public!

Statul sîntem noi

Space as a political instrument of primary importance

There is a politics of space because space is political

Relațiile sociale nu se pot de zvolta independent de spațiu, modul lor de existență e spațial. Iar spațiul social nu poate fi înțeles decât ținând cont de relațiile sociale care îl transfigurează

Natural space is irreversibly gone

Până la 7 august, în Apartamentul Deschis puteau fi văzute lucrările Paulei Durinova realizate la Chișinău.

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These days we have some things going on in FLAT SPACE:
A couple of days ago, we found this beautiful present from the Papergirl group (we took the last “love”, sorry, but there’s still a lot of passion)

More things: we have started to stick the quotes and the conclusions from the Public space in post-socialism reading group, that meets every Monday and Thursday at Zemstvei muzeum. We think there’s not a better place to fix these quotes than a post-socialism construction that is located in the public space!

And finally, until 7h August, in FLAT SPACE you could see the work made by Paula Durinova during her stay in Chișinău

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APARTAMENT DESCHIS – proiectie de filme documentare de scurt metraj
str. București 68/1, Chișinău
Marți, 7 august 2012, ora 21:00
întrare liberă
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Caseta mea moldoveneasca
dir: Christopher Schoen
Totul a început cu o întîmplare într-o gară feroviară germană. Falit financiar, autorul Cristopher Schoen, in 2006, în loc să-şi ia un sandwich, şi-a cumpărat o cărticică galbenă, pe ultimul euro pe care l-a găsit în buzunar. Cartea avea numele “Moldova”, scrisă de Timo Berger! Ani mai tîrziu, după ce va fi uitat această carte, drumurile lui îl vor duce acolo.
Filmul “My moldovan home tape” este un eseu cinematic nenarativ care nu tinde să formuleze adevărul reflectat în fotografii și în intîmplările din realitate. Nu confirmă importanța dimensiunii vizuale a filmului și fotografiei. Dar accentuează posibilitățile gesturilor cinematice, imperfecte, în loc să exprime adevărul imposibil. Filmul vrea să arate ceea ce se vede dincolo de spațiu și timp. Autorul urmărește să ofere sens unor imagini care dispar și să facă un film într-un limbaj (dupa Alexandre Astruc) în stare să exprime totul, fără a pluti pe valurile mass mediei colorate și iluzorii.
Acest film nu este o poveste, nu are actori, este contra metodelor jurnalistice de a face lucrurile înțelese. Este doar dorința de a crea o imagine în gîndurile cuiva care a găsit o bucățică de Moldova în sufletul său.
Christopher Schoen, născut în 1983, a călătorit pentru prima dată în Moldova în anul 2008, și de atunci a vizitat-o de cîte ori a fost posibil. Filmul documentează gîndurile lui nespuse, care au crescut între blocurile gri ale Chișinăului și cîmpurile mozaice ale Moldovei.

Gînduri Moldovenești
dir: Pierre-Olivier Gaumin
După 6 luni petrecute în Chișinău în cadrul programului meu EVS, am hotarît să fac un film despre această țară, pentru a înțelege mai bine dificultățile de aici. Am decis să-i las pe moldoveni să vorbească și să-i transforme în gînditori, pentru a lupta contra stereotipurilor prezente în Franța: Moldova (daca știi unde se află) pare să dispară, sufocată de Rusia și Europa. Vorbind cu sinceritate cu cei pe care i-am întîlnit, am descoperit oameni mereu divizați în două: să rămînă sau să plece cît mai departe, dar totuși oameni implicați, onești, conștiincioși și luptători/ străduitori.
Pierre-Olivier Gaumin, fotograf și videast. Imaginile și sunetele sunt o cale de a înțelege mai bine unde sunt.

Jocul Etern
dir: Paula Durinova
In filmul documentar JOCUL ETERN sint prezentate doua spatii cu o pondere diferita: Memorialul “Eternitatea”, un spatiu exagerat de mare si monumental, care insa este umplut o singura data pe an cu ocazia zilei de 9 mai, si scuarul jucatorilor de sah de pe str. Mateevici, care este activ constant.
In contrast cu Memorialul, care a fost inaugurat in 1975 de catre autoritatile sovieticie si purta numele “Biruinta”, pentru a oferi tribut celor cazuti in “marele razboi pentru apararea patriei”, fapt care da curs diverselor intepretari si ii ofera un rol de “tribuna” de pe care sa se poata manifesta politicul, in contextul in care actualul teritoriu al Republicii Moldova este si o consecinta a multiplelor anexari si experimente geo-politice, scuarul jucatorilor de sah nu este altceva decit un segment din strada transformat intr-un club de sah in aer liber la initiativa unui grup de cetateni. In urma privatizarilor obscure din anii ’90 si formarii capitalului, vechiul club de sah care se afla la intrarea in parcul Valea Morilor (denumirea veche Lacul Comsomolistilor) a fost demolat iar in locul acestuia a aparut un local de elita privat. Necatind la faptul ca scuarul jucatorilor de sah duce lipsa de amenajare, acesta este un loc care atrage jucatori chiar si in prioada rece a anului.
In acest film Paula explica caracterul celor doua spatii prin vocile oamenilor aflati intr-un raport cu ele, iar discursul din film articuleaza notiunea de conflict si lupta, si multiplele situatii in care acestea pot sa existe.
Ambele situatii, odata suprapuse, demonstreaza masura in care politicul priveaza cetatenii acestui stat de spatii publice bine amenajate, care sa raspunda necesitatilor curente ale diverselor comunitati.
In conexiune cu filmul JOCUL ETERN, artista realizeaza si o serie de fotografii in care este prezentata situatia unui numar de femei pe care ea le surprinde in diverse situatii si le reprezinta ca pe niste “statui vii”. Sint femei care lucreaza, isi exprima atitudinea si lupta pentru o viata mai buna.

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FLAT SPACE – short documentary film screening
68/1 str. Bucuresti, Chisinau
Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 9 pm
free entrance
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Christopher Schoen – My moldovan home tape
Everything started with a moment on a german railway-station. Financially burned out, the author Christopher schoen, bought in 2006 instead of a sandwich a small yellow book, of the last Euro that he found in his pockets. The book had the name “moldova” by Timo Berger! Years later, after forgetting the book, his ways will lead him there.

The film “My moldovan home tape” is a non-narrative cinematic essay, that always tries, not to formulate the whole truth of what pictures show and what really happened. It never confirms the importance of the visual surface of film and photo. It emphasizes possibilities of cinematic, imperfect gestures, instead of expressing an impossible truth. The film wants to show behind of what is shown, in space and time. It wants to give thoughts a vanishing image and to make film, to a kind of language (according to Alexandre Astruc), able to express everything, without floating in the stream of colourful, illusionistic mass media.

This film is not a story, has no actors, is against journalistic methods to make things understand. It is just the wish to make a view possible in the thoughts of somebody, which found a little piece of moldova in his soul.

Christopher Schoen, born in 1983, travelled in 2008 the first time to moldova and from this point on, he did, whenever it was possible. This film documents his inexpressible thoughts that grew between the grey blocks of Chisinau and the mosaic fields of moldova.

Pierre-Olivier Gaumin – Moldovan thoughts
After having spent 6 month in Chisinau for my EVS I’ve decided to make a movie about it in order to understand the issues here. I decided to let Moldovans speak and turn them into thinkers in order to fight against the prior thoughts which is alive is France: Moldova (when you know where it is) seems to disappear smothered by Russia and Europe. Speaking truly with those I’ve encountered, I’ve discovered people always torn in two: to stay or to run away, but people comitted, honest and conscious who struggle.

Pierre-Olivier Gaumin, Photographer and videast. Images and sounds are a way to have a better understanding of where I am.

Paula Durinova – Eternal Play
In ETERNAL PLAY documentary film there are two different spaces presented: “Eternity” Memorial, a huge and monumental space that is filled one single time a year, during the 9th of May celebrations, and the chess players’ square situated on Mateevici str. that is constantly full and active.
The Memorial was inaugurated in 1975 by Soviet authorities. At that time it was bearing the name of “Victory” Memorial as a tribute to those who died for the “Great war for the homeland defense”, which fact gives birth to various interpretations and transforms this place into a “tribune” for political manifestations, in the context in which the actual territory of Republic of Moldova was a subject to consequent annexations and geo-political experiments. In contrast to it, the chess players’ square is nothing more than a segment of a street transformed into an open-air chess club by a group of citizens. As a follow up of the obscure privatization processes from 90s and formation of the capital, the old chess club that was situated at the entrance of Valea Morilor Lake (old name Comsomolist Lake) was demolished and a luxury private space was built instead of it. Despite the fact that the chess players’ square is lacking any infrastructure this place attracts players even throughout the cold period of the year.
In her film Paula explains the character of those two spaces through the voice of the people who feel related to them. In the same time the film articulates the notions of conflict and struggle and places them in various contexts.
Both situations, once compared, explain better to which extend the politics is able to deprive the local community of public spaces that would respond to citizens’ current needs.

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.

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JOCUL ETERN

un proiect documentar de Paula DURINOVA

CHIOSC – program de rezidenta pentru artisti
curator – Vladimir US

Muzeul Zemstvei
28 iunie 2012, ora 18:00
str. Al. Sciusev 103, Chisinau
program: 28 iunie – 11 iulie 2012
luni-vineri, 14:00-18:00 (simbata/duminica – inchis)
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Preocuparea principala a Paulei Durinova, participant la programul de rezidente artistice CHIOSC, este filmul documentar. Pe parcursul rezidentei sale, artista si-a propus sa exploreze citeva spatii din Chisinau pe care le-am discutat si am incercat sa le analizam impreuna, si care ar fi putut sa ne explice mai bine pulsul vietii din acest oras, conflictele existente si politicile publice care determina dezvoltarea spatiilor de uz comun in ultimii douazeci de ani.

In filmul documentar JOCUL ETERN sint prezentate doua spatii cu o pondere diferita: Memorialul “Eternitatea”, un spatiu exagerat de mare si monumental, care insa este umplut o singura data pe an cu ocazia zilei de 9 mai, si scuarul jucatorilor de sah de pe str. Mateevici, care este activ constant.

In contrast cu Memorialul, care a fost inaugurat in 1975 de catre autoritatile sovieticie si purta numele “Biruinta”, pentru a oferi tribut celor cazuti in “marele razboi pentru apararea patriei”, fapt care da curs diverselor intepretari si ii ofera un rol de “tribuna” de pe care sa se poata manifesta politicul, in contextul in care actualul teritoriu al Republicii Moldova este si o consecinta a multiplelor anexari si experimente geo-politice, scuarul jucatorilor de sah nu este altceva decit un segment din strada transformat intr-un club de sah in aer liber la initiativa unui grup de cetateni. In urma privatizarilor obscure din anii ’90 si formarii capitalului, vechiul club de sah care se afla la intrarea in parcul Valea Morilor (denumirea veche Lacul Comsomolistilor) a fost demolat iar in locul acestuia a aparut un local de elita privat. Necatind la faptul ca scuarul jucatorilor de sah duce lipsa de amenajare, acesta este un loc care atrage jucatori chiar si in prioada rece a anului.
In acest film Paula explica caracterul celor doua spatii prin vocile oamenilor aflati intr-un raport cu ele, iar discursul din film articuleaza notiunea de conflict si lupta, si multiplele situatii in care acestea pot sa existe.
Ambele situatii, odata suprapuse, demonstreaza masura in care politicul priveaza cetatenii acestui stat de spatii publice bine amenajate, care sa raspunda necesitatilor curente ale diverselor comunitati.

In conexiune cu filmul JOCUL ETERN, artista realizeaza si o serie de fotografii in care este prezentata situatia unui numar de femei pe care ea le surprinde in diverse situatii si le reprezinta ca pe niste “statui vii”. Sint femei care lucreaza, isi exprima atitudinea si lupta pentru o viata mai buna.

Vladimir Us

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Paula Durinova (1987) este un regizor independent de filme documentare stabilita in Bratislava, Slovacia. Ea si-a facut studiile la Academia de Arte in Banska Bystrica, Slovacia si la Academia de Teatru, Radio, Film si Televiziune din Ljubljana, Slovenia. Este fondatoarea Asociatiei Living documentary.
“Realizarea unor filme documentare ma ajuta sa-mi exprim gindurile si sa analizez subiecte in care sint interesata. Oamenii si locurile din jur, spatiile post-sovietice, subiecte de ordin social si religia se regasesc in lucrarile mele de creatie. In fiecare film incerc sa-mi exprim dorintele si sentimentele personale.”
http://vimeo.com/pauladurinova

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Proiectul SPACES (Zone Publice Durabile pentru Cultura în Tarile din Est) aduna la un loc artisti si lucratori din domeniul culturii din patru tari ale Parteneriatului Estic, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Ucraina, care se preocupa de reprezentarea unor subiecte sociale specifice pentru spatiile publice din orasele lor. Proiectul mai are drept scop fortificarea scenei independente de arta si cultura din aceste tari.
Cuvintul cheie este dezvoltarea capacitatii – de la dezvoltarea unor pozitii ferme de pe care de lansat un proces de negociere cu agentii guvernamentali pina la procese de autoinstruire, imbunatatire a contactului cu societatea civila si publicul, si identificarea unor noi spatii unde arta si cultura pot avea loc. Intrebarea principala este: Cum prin arta si cultura sa recistigam noi spatii pentru cetateni, in special pentru tineri? In cadrul proiectului SPACES vor fi organizate si desfasurate evenimente artistice participative in spatiul public din cele patru tari. Procese de lucru in retea, cercetare sociologica si dezbateri pe marginea policiticilor culturale vor acompania aceste evenimente. O intelegere mai buna a rolului pe care il poate avea arta si cultura vizavi de spatiul public in spatiile post-comuniste, un sprijin mai puternic acordat scenei independente, noi concepte de guvernare culturala in regiune vor fi citeva din rezultatele proiectului SPACES.
http://www.spacesproject.net

K.A.I.R. Program de Rezidenta pentru Artisti in Kosice
K.A.I.R. este un program de rezidenta organizat de Kosice 2013 – Capitala Culturala Europeana prin intermediul caruia artisti din diferite tari pot petrece 3 luni lucrind si locuind in Kosice, iar artistii din Slovacia de Est pot calatori in alte tari.
http://www.kair.sk

CHIOSC – program de rezidenta pentru artisti si curatori
Programul CHIOSC de rezidenta pentru artisti incurajeaza crearea unor lucrari noi, produse in raport cu contextul si realitatile locale. El ofera posibilitatea de a explora diferite probleme ce se refera la situatia Moldovei in general si de a analiza procesele care modeleaza astazi spatiul public al Chisinaului.
http://chiosc.oberliht.org/air

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ETERNAL PLAY

a documentary project by Paula DURINOVA

KIOSK – artist in residency program
curator – Vladimir US

Zemstvei Museum
June 28, 2012, 6 pm
Al. Sciusev str. 103, Chisinau
program: June 28 – July 11, 2012
Monday-Friday, 2 pm – 6 pm (Saturday/Sunday – closed)
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Paula Durinova is mainly working with documentary film. In the frame of the KIOSK artist in residency program she proposed herself to explore several spaces in Chisinau that we have been discussing about and tried to analyze together, which could explain better the rhythm of the city life, the existing conflicts and public policies that were determining the development of places of common use during the last two decades.

In ETERNAL PLAY documentary film there are two different spaces presented: “Eternity” Memorial, a huge and monumental space that is filled one single time a year, during the 9th of May celebrations, and the chess players’ square situated on Mateevici str. that is constantly full and active.
The Memorial was inaugurated in 1975 by Soviet authorities. At that time it was bearing the name of “Victory” Memorial as a tribute to those who died for the “Great war for the homeland defense”, which fact gives birth to various interpretations and transforms this place into a “tribune” for political manifestations, in the context in which the actual territory of Republic of Moldova was a subject to consequent annexations and geo-political experiments. In contrast to it, the chess players’ square is nothing more than a segment of a street transformed into an open-air chess club by a group of citizens. As a follow up of the obscure privatization processes from 90s and formation of the capital, the old chess club that was situated at the entrance of Valea Morilor Lake (old name Comsomolist Lake) was demolished and a luxury private space was built instead of it. Despite the fact that the chess players’ square is lacking any infrastructure this place attracts players even throughout the cold period of the year.
In her film Paula explains the character of those two spaces through the voice of the people who feel related to them. In the same time the film articulates the notions of conflict and struggle and places them in various contexts.
Both situations, once compared, explain better to which extend the politics is able to deprive the local community of public spaces that would respond to citizens’ current needs.

In connection to the film ETERNAL PLAY the artist made a photo series of women she has met in various situations and that she presents as “living statues”. These are women that work, express their attitudes and struggle for a better life.

Vladimir Us.

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Paula Durinova (1987) is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Bratislava, Slovakia. She has been studying at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia and at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is founder of the Living documentary association.
“Making documentary films helps me to express my thoughts and reflect on the topics that I’m curious about. The people and places that surround me, post-soviet spaces, social issues and religion influence my artistic creation. In each film I try to express my appeal and personal feelings.”
http://vimeo.com/pauladurinova

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SPACES (Sustainable Public Areas for Culture in Eastern Countries) project assembles artists and cultural workers in four Eastern partner countries, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, who aim at reflecting societal issues in the public realm of their city. It also aims at strengthening the independent art and culture scene.
The key word is capacity building – from developing a better standing in negotiations with governmental agencies, to processes of self-learning, increasing contact with civil society audiences, and finding new spaces where art and culture can take place. The core question of the project: How can art and culture regain public space(s) for citizens, especially for young people? SPACES will curate and carry out participatory art events in public spaces in the four countries. Processes of networking, social research and policy debates will accompany the in situ events. A better understanding of the role culture and art can play with regard to public space in post communist spaces, a stronger lobby for the independent scenes, new concepts for cultural governance in the region: these are some of the SPACES results.
http://www.spacesproject.net

K.A.I.R. Kosice Artist in Residence
K.A.I.R. is a residency programme in the frame of Kosice 2013 – European Capital of Culture to invite international artists to work and live for three month in Kosice as well as to send Eastern Slovak artists to international residencies.
http://www.kair.sk

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

vernisajul expoziției / opening

imagini de la expoziție / Images from the exhibition

This event is part of K.A.I.R./KIOSK artist in residency program organized in the frame of the EU project SPACES. The SPACES project is financed by the European Union through the Eastern Partnership Culture Programme. This residency is in cooperation with Kosice 2013 – European Capital of Culture and further supported by the Slovak Ministry of Culture.

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APARTAMENT DESCHIS – proiectie de filme documentare de scurt metraj
str. București 68/1, Chișinău
Joi, 21 iunie 2012, ora 21:00

Secretul unei piscine (TAJOMSTVO JEDNÉHO BAZÉNA)
dir: Andrea Kalinová
2006 / Slovacia / 25 min

În 1942 o piscină a fost construită la temelia castelului din Bratislava. Cu toate acestea, ea nu a fost niciodată folosită. De ce nu a fost niciodată piscina pusă în funcţionare? Unde a dispărut apa din aceasta? Un mister? Am decis să răspundem problematicii acestui spaţiu în degradare din Bratislava sub forma unui film pseudo-documentar. Am inventat toată povestea pe baza datelor istorice.

Extratereştri şi bîtlani (VETŘELCI A VOLAVKY)
dir: Rozálie Kohoutová
2008 / Cehia / 26 min

Documentarul descrie soarta sculpturilor datînd de pe vremea aşa-zisei perioadei de normalizare a regimului comunist în spaţiul public din Cehia. Filmul abordează tema degradării spaţiului public actual şi a devastării unor valoroase opere de artă.  Pavel Karous merge pe bicicletă de-a lungul acestor statui pentru a demonstra că operele produse sub regimul comunist nu sunt neapărat de calitate inferioară. Sub ce criterii este făcută azi arta? De ce întotdeauna sculpturile nevinovate sunt cele care suferă din cauza schimbărilor politice?

7 minuni ale Bratislavei (7 DIVŮ BRATISLAVY)
dir: Alexandra Gojdičová
2007 / Cehia / 13 min

În acest film subintitulat Sountrack Alternativ, care a fost produs ca un exerciţiu de şcoală în departamentul de editare al FAMU din Praga, capitala Slovaciei devine un semn, un simbol, dezvoltînd un joc al asocierilor multiple. Acesta este punctul de pornire al unui portret fragmentat al realităţii, unde fluenţa prin care o întîmplare, o atmosferă sau un mediu sunt exprimate este accentuată de sensibilitatea artistică şi muzicală., care ajută la crearea unui reprezentări autentice a unei lumi lăuntrice.

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Seria de proiectii dedicate spatiului public urmareste sa explice posibile relatii intre comunitate si spatiul construit, rolul celui din urma in viata comunitatii locale si formarea noilor forme de comportament si atitudini sociale. Sunt invitati artisti, istorici, arhitecti, sociologi si toti cei interesati in transformarile urbane. Proiectia totodata poate servi drept cadru de comunicare si dezbatere in jurul relatiei: om – spatiul public.

Proiectia face parte din rezidenta artistica K.A.I.R/CHIOSC la care participa Paula Durinova, in cadrul proiectului SPACES
http://vimeo.com/pauladurinova

Imagini de la eveniment

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Proiectul SPACES (Zone Publice Durabile pentru Cultura în Tarile din Est) aduna la un loc artisti si lucratori din domeniul culturii din patru tari ale Parteneriatului Estic, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Ucraina, care se preocupa de reprezentarea unor subiecte sociale specifice pentru spatiile publice din orasele lor. Proiectul mai are drept scop fortificarea scenei independente de arta si cultura din aceste tari.
Cuvintul cheie este dezvoltarea capacitatii – de la dezvoltarea unor pozitii ferme de pe care de lansat un proces de negociere cu agentii guvernamentali pina la procese de autoinstruire, imbunatatire a contactului cu societatea civila si publicul, si identificarea unor noi spatii unde arta si cultura pot avea loc. Intrebarea principala este: Cum prin arta si cultura sa recistigam noi spatii pentru cetateni, in special pentru tineri? In cadrul proiectului SPACES vor fi organizate si desfasurate evenimente artistice participative in spatiul public din cele patru tari. Procese de lucru in retea, cercetare sociologica si dezbateri pe marginea policiticilor culturale vor acompania aceste evenimente. O intelegere mai buna a rolului pe care il poate avea arta si cultura vizavi de spatiul public in spatiile post-comuniste, un sprijin mai puternic acordat scenei independente, noi concepte de guvernare culturala in regiune vor fi citeva din rezultatele proiectului SPACES.
http://www.spacesproject.net

K.A.I.R. Program de Rezidenta pentru Artisti in Kosice
K.A.I.R. este un program de rezidenta organizat de Kosice 2013 – Capitala Culturala Europeana prin intermediul caruia artisti din diferite tari pot petrece 3 luni lucrind si locuind in Kosice, iar artistii din Slovacia de Est pot calatori in alte tari.
http://www.kosice2013.sk/sk/k-a-i-r-umelecke-rezidencie

CHIOSC – program de rezidenta pentru artisti si curatori
Programul CHIOSC de rezidenta pentru artisti incurajeaza crearea unor lucrari noi, produse in raport cu contextul si realitatile locale. El ofera posibilitatea de a explora diferite probleme ce se refera la situatia Moldovei in general si de a analiza procesele care modeleaza astazi spatiul public al Chisinaului.
http://chiosc.oberliht.org/air

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FLAT SPACE – short documentary film screening
68/1 str. Bucuresti, Chisinau
Thursday, June 21, 2012, 9 pm

THE SECRET OF ONE SWIMMING POOL
dir: Andrea Kalinová
2006 / Slovakia / 25 min

In 1942, a swimming pool was constructed under the Bratislava castle rock, however, it was never really used. Why was the pool never set in operation? Where did its water go? A mystery? We have decided to solve the question of this deteriorating place in Bratislava in the form of a pseudodocumentary film. We have made the whole story up on the basis of historical facts.

ALIENS AND HERONS
dir: Rozálie Kohoutová
2008 / Czech Republic / 26 min

The documentary Aliens and Herons portraits the fate of the sculptures from the Communist so called normalization era in the Czech public space. During the Communist regime there was a law ordering 4 per cent of building budget to be used for fine art and decoration in architecture.
The film describes the atmosphere of the time and the relationship of the artists to the “official art” and it’s topics, but, mainly, it addresses the decay of the public space today and the devastation of often valuable artworks. There is no official protection of these “normalization” sculptures in the public space.
Today’s officials or developers often demolish the sculpture, viewing it as an unwanted heritage of Communism, and renovating the blocks of houses with new pistachio green façade and a saddle roof instead.
Pavel Karous, a graduate of the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design started to map the disappearing statues, and to loose weight, he rides along the paths of these statues on his bike showing that the artwork made under the order of the Communist regime doesn’t have to be shoddy. In terms of what order is the art being made today?
Why does it always have to be innocent sculptures who suffer from political change?

7 WONDERS OF BRATISLAVA
dir: Alexandra Gojdičová
2007 / Czech Republic / 13 min

In this film subtitled Alternative Soundtrack, which emerged as a student exercise in the Editing Department at FAMU in Prague, the capital city of Slovakia becomes a sign, a symbol, unleashing a game of multiple associations. This is the basis of a fragmented portrait of reality, where the fluid manner in which an occurrence, an atmosphere, or an environment is expressed is heightened by artistic and musical sensitivity, which helps to create an authentic representation of an inner world, replete with poetics.

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The series of documentary film screenings dedicated to public space aims to explain possible relations between the community and build environment, the way the latter is determining the life of the local community, whether it creates new models of social behavior and contributes to the formation of attitudes. Artists, historians, architects, sociologists and other people interested in urban transformations are invited. The screening can also serve as a frame for discussing the people – public space relation.

This screening is taking place in the frame of Paula Durinova’s K.A.I.R/KIOSK artist in residency program organized in the frame of SPACES project
http://vimeo.com/pauladurinova

Images from the event

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SPACES (Sustainable Public Areas for Culture in Eastern Countries) project assembles artists and cultural workers in four Eastern partner countries, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, who aim at reflecting societal issues in the public realm of their city. It also aims at strengthening the independent art and culture scene.
The key word is capacity building – from developing a better standing in negotiations with governmental agencies, to processes of self-learning, increasing contact with civil society audiences, and finding new spaces where art and culture can take place. The core question of the project: How can art and culture regain public space(s) for citizens, especially for young people? SPACES will curate and carry out participatory art events in public spaces in the four countries. Processes of networking, social research and policy debates will accompany the in situ events. A better understanding of the role culture and art can play with regard to public space in post communist spaces, a stronger lobby for the independent scenes, new concepts for cultural governance in the region: these are some of the SPACES results.
http://www.spacesproject.net

K.A.I.R. Kosice Artist in Residence
K.A.I.R. is a residency programme in the frame of Kosice 2013 – European Capital of Culture to invite international artists to work and live for three month in Kosice as well as to send Eastern Slovak artists to international residencies.
http://www.kosice2013.sk/sk/k-a-i-r-umelecke-rezidencie

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

This event is part of K.A.I.R./KIOSK artist in residency program organized in the frame of the EU project SPACES. The SPACES project is financed by the European Union through the Eastern Partnership Culture Programme. This residency is in cooperation with Kosice 2013 – European Capital of Culture and further supported by the Slovak Ministry of Culture.