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Gregory Sholette’s lecture, 2008, credit: Asociaflia Vector, Iaøi
Hila Peleg
A Crime against Art, video, 2007, credit: Asociaflia Vector, Iaøi
foarte consistent øi variat în prima sæptæmînæ, în cadrul cæruia artiøti, studenfli, profesori,
teoreticieni ai artei øi activiøti au fost invitafli la Sala Sporturilor øi la Facultatea
de Arhitecturæ.
Teatrul Naflional a pus la dispoziflie, în curtea sa – din pricina renoværii prin care trece
–, propria salæ alternativæ de spectacole, o clædire în formæ de cub negru, proiect ce
a cîøtigat, de altfel, o medalie la Bienala bucureøteanæ de Arhitecturæ. 1 În interiorul clædirii,
pereflii tapetafli cu draperii imense de catifea roøie creau o atmosferæ sumbræ, dar øi
ludic-dramaticæ, spafliu în care curatorul Guillaume Désanges øi-a prezentat instalaflia
de video, desene øi proiecflii de fotografii, însumînd rezultatul workshopului experimental
(istoria performance-urilor faimoase, începînd cu anii ’60, rescrisæ gestic sub
forma unor adaptæri) cu elevii de opt ani ai unei øcoli elementare din Iaøi. Pe lîngæ latura
didacticæ pe care o impune, de a lucra cu aceøti copii explicîndu-le principiile artei
conceptuale, curatorul a reuøit sæ abordeze problematica artei ca limbaj universal,
dar øi pe cea a receptærii, de cætre public, a unui produs artistic decontextualizat.
Era de aøteptat ca Perifericul sæ cuprindæ cel puflin o lucrare legatæ de istoria performance-ului,
dat fiind cæ prima sa formæ de existenflæ, în ’97, a fost cea de festival
de performance. Accentuînd latura educativæ øi de interacfliune a bienalei, workshopul
artistei Johanna Billing, desfæøurat la Casa Studenflilor, a adus împreunæ o coregrafæ
din Suedia, muzicieni de la Filarmonica din Iaøi øi tineri interesafli de gen, care
au creat o piesæ de dans contemporan ce urmeazæ sæ fie difuzatæ ca video. Lucrarea,
cu valenfle multiple, evidenfliazæ însæ øi lipsa, la Iaøi, a unei platforme pentru cei preocupafli
de abordarea dansului contemporan.
The Vector Iaøi Association, led by the artist Matei Bejenaru, which
has been organizing the biennial ever since its first edition (as a performance
festival in 1997) has continued the previous editions’
efforts to broaden the educative program for the young public.
This time it was about two ambitious projects of creative mediation
for pupils and students, but also for the wider public, consisting in
conferences, debates, workshops, guided tours which took place on
the whole duration of the biennial. A studio for artistic practices and
debates has been created, with a very consistent and varied program
during the first week, where artists, professors, art theoreticians
and activists have been invited to the Sports Hall and the
Faculty of Architecture.
The National Theatre came up with its own provisional stage in its
courtyard – due to the renovation process it’s going through –
a building shaped like black cube, a project which has even won
a medal at the Bucharest Architecture Biennial. 1 Inside the building,
the walls draped in huge red velvet curtains created a somber, but
also playful-dramatic environment. This space was used by the curator
Guillaume Désanges to present his video installation, drawings
and photographic projections, the result of the experimental workshop
(the history of famous performances, starting with the 60s, rewritten
in a gesticulatory manner as adaptations) with the 8 year old
pupils of an elementary school in Iaøi. Apart from the didactic aspect
it engages, that of working with these children and explaining the
principles of conceptual art to them, the curator has managed to
approach the issue of art as an international language, but also that
of the reception of a de-contextualized artistic product by the public.
It was expected that Periferic included at least one work related
Mona Vætæmanu & Florin Tudor
Piafla Rosa Luxemburg, 2008, credit: Asociaflia Vector, Iaøi