RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Publication launch

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One of the chapters is dedicated to the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions

azi.md, 22 May 2009, 7:32

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RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Publication launch will be launched today.

The project publication summarize the sense of interaction between artists and experts involved in the project, as well as the results of investigated and researched aspects that were in focus of contemporary art practice. The publication includes the artist projects and contributions resulted after interdisciplinary workshop, seminars and production sessions. One of the chapters is dedicated to the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions with texts and contributions by: Sorin Bocancea (political annalist), Flavius Solomon (historian), Igor Casu (historian), Petru Negura (sociologist), Matei Bejenaru (artist/curator) and Stefan Rusu (artist/curator). The other chapter is dedicated to the presentation of curatorial practices and artistic strategies exploring the contexts of some divided (split up) territories by: Catalin Gheorghe (curator, counter theorist), Laura Schleussner/Berlin, Lilia Dragneva (curator), Binna Choi (curator) and contributions by invited visual artists: Bik Van der Pol (Lisbethe Bik and Jos Van der Pol), Iratxe Jaio&Klaas van Gorkum, Tilmann Meyer-Faje, Ilya Rabinovich, Gulsun Karamstafa.
The publication also presents visual art projects and films realized by visual artists from Romania and Republic Moldova: Aurelia Mihai, Dan Acostioaei, Alexandru Grigoras, Lavinia German, Dimitru Oboroc, Violeta Ionita, Tatiana Fiodorova, Vadim Tiganas, Vladimir Us, Denis Bartenev, Maxim Cusmenco, Ghenadie Popescu, Veaceslav Druta, Igor Scerbina, Lucia Macari.
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The RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios project aim was to investigate by juxtaposing the current cultural, social and political situation in two Moldova regions. The joint actions undertaken by the project teams from the KSAK - Centre for Contemporary Art in Chisinau and that from the Vector Association in Iasi are nothing else, but an attempt to create a rapprochement and to understand the nature of the relationship between Romanian and Moldovan societies at the present stage, to analyze the causes and effects of a shared historical and identitary trajectory in the context of divided regions and societies.
RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios is a project organized by the Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau in partnership with VECTOR Association, Iasi
The project was supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute through the CANTEMIR Program, Bucharest; PATTERNS Program /ERSTE Foundation, Vienna and MONDRIAAN Stichting, Amsterdam.
Period: 22 of May, 2009, 18.00
Location: Center for Contemporary Art-KSAK, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova
Address: str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, ap-2, Chisinau

Details about the project:
Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana, Chisinau -[KSA:K]
Address: str. Banulescu Bodoni 5, ap-2,
post code 2000, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
tel/fax: +37322 237272