TROP TOT, TROP TARD* | PREA DEVREME, PREA TARZIU | ACTIVAND PREZENTUL, ACUM.

29 MAI 2010
12.00

Locatie: Rahova-Uranus, in jurul CIAC si laBomba, Calea Rahovei nr. 194 si traversarea Strada Sabinelor.

Participanti: Natalia Comandari, d’incise, Stephan Freivogel, Stéphanie Giorgis, Ceel Mogami de Haas, Sonia Kacem, Olga Kokcharova, Florent Meng, Violetta Perra, Vincent de Roguin, Roxana Sima, Emeline Vitte

Intre 20 – 30 mai, 12 studenti din departamentul de instalatii si work.master, practici artistice contemporane, Haute ecole d’art et de design, HEAD Geneva, Elvetia, se vor alatura Bucurestiului si vor lucra asupra unor interventii site-specific in jurul zonei rezidentiale din Rahova-Uranus. Ideea este de a produce viziuni singulare despre ceea ce termenul de “Handlung”, asa cum Felix Vogel l-a exprimat privind conceptul sau asupra sferei publice in Bucuresti, poate insemna in termenii unei productii artistice efemere. “Prea devreme, prea tarziu. Activand prezentul, acum” ridica intrebari si despre conflictul de a fi altundeva decat la locul potrivit in momentul potrivit, despre oportunitati ratate si o posibila schimbare.

Proiectele includ instalații, performance, text, sound si video art.

Ceel Mogami de Haas si Florent Meng isi vor prezenta lucrarea intr-o conferinta-performanta cu scenariu pe 29 mai, sambata, la ora 19.00, la PAVILION UNICREDIT, Sos. Nicolae Titulescu nr. 1 (Piata Victoriei).

Natalia Comandari si Violetta Perra lucreaza impreuna la o structura mobila, o sculptura in forma de chiosc. Aceasta mica sculptura “Macondo” va fi mutata in diverse spatii ale zonei Rahova-Urnaus.

Punctul central al performantelor Violettei Perra este crearea de urme prin realizarea unui tur nefamiliar de oras, descriind zona Rahova-Uranus pentru a descoperi arhitectura urbana si sociala a orasului. Punctul de intalnire a oricarei actiuni este chioscul “Macondo”.

Roxana Sima propune o citire in zatul de cafea. Realizeaza sesiunile ei de citire in cafea in chioscul “Macondo” pentru o singura zi, instaland un mic aragaz in care va fierbe cafea intr-un vas special, numit “ibric”.

Cautand o forma poetica a geologiei urbane, Sonia Kacem intervine in zona Rahova-Uranus, lucrand asupra unei forme ce apare des in spatiul public: mormanul, acumularea de gunoi, materiale de constructii, nisip si pietre sau pur si simplu nimicuri.

Punctul central al instalatiei lui Stephanie Giorgis este peisajul urban schimbator. Instalatia ei este legata de spatiul comunitar din Rahova-Urnaus, unde a construit o cutie de nisip pentru copii si adulti.

Emeline Vitte se concentreaza pe caracterul eclectic al arhitecturii bucurestene, ce arata schimbarea orasului.

Intr-un impuls utopic de acaptura instantaneitatea efemera, Olga Kokcharova se plimba prin oras, recitand un text despre potentialul sau viitor si trecut, utilizand fragmente de referinte istorice si citate.

Artistul vizual si sonor d’incise lucreaza in stransa legatura cu actiunile LaBomba in cartier, generand material artistic si facandu-l disponibil ca bun comun, deschis viitoarelor transformari si evolutii.

Ceel Mogami de Haas si Florent Meng decid sa se plimbe pe strazile Bucurestiului timp de 5 zile, invitand in fiecare zi o noua persoana sa ii insoteasca intr-o discutie/plimbare.

Cu lucrarile sale sonore ce combina strategii de muzica concreta cu material corodat de arhiva, osciland intre marturiile documentare si texturile tactile, Vincent de Roguin implica publicul intr-un spatiu in care amintirile si realitatea fizica sunt puse in scena conform jocului bizar dintre scara, forma si functie.

Proiectul este acompaniat de Katharina Hohmann si Laurent Schmid, ambii profesori la HEAD Geneva in colaborare cu Felix Vogel.

* Titlul este un citat dintr-o observatie a lui Dan Perjovschi, in prima noastra vizita in Bucuresti, in primavara 2008, facand referire in acelasi timp la un film de Jean-Marie Straub / Daniele Huillet, 1981.


BUCHAREST BIENNALE 4 PARALLEL EVENT

TROP TOT, TROP TARD* | TOO EARLY, TOO LATE | ACTIVATING THE PRESENT, NOW.

MAY 29, 2010
12.00

Venue: Rahova-Uranus, around CIAC and laBomba projects, Calea Rahovei nr. 194 and street crossing Strada Sabinelor

Participants: Natalia Comandari, d’incise, Stephan Freivogel, Stéphanie Giorgis, Ceel Mogami de Haas, Sonia Kacem, Olga Kokcharova, Florent Meng, Violetta Perra, Vincent de Roguin, Roxana Sima, Emeline Vitte

From 20th of May to 30th of May, 12 students from HEAD Geneva – installation department and work.master, contemporary art practices, Haute école d’art et de design, HEAD Genève, Switzerland – join Bucharest and work on site specific interventions around the housing area of Rahova-Uranus. The idea is to produce singular views on what the term of „Handlung“, as Felix Vogel makes it accessible for his concept on the public sphere in Bucharest, can mean in terms of an ephemeral art production.
Trop tôt, trop tard | Too early, too late. Activating the present, now. is also asking about the conflict of being elsewhere than in the right place at the right time, of missed opportunities, and a possible change.
The projects include installation, performance, actions, writing, sound- and video art.

Ceel Mogami de Haas and Florent Meng will present their work in a scripted lecture performance on Saturday, May 29 at 19.00 at PAVILION UNICREDIT, Sos. Nicolae Titulescu nr. 1 (Piata Victoriei).

Natalia Comandari and Violetta Perra are working together on a mobile structure, a kiosk-like sculpture. This little hut „Macondo“ is moving to different spaces around the housing area of Rahova-Uranus.

The focus of Violetta Perra’s performances is on the creation of traces by making an unfamiliar city tour, by embodying the Rahova-Uranus area in order to discover the urban and social architecture of the city. The meeting point and departure of any performance action will be the ‘Macondo’ kiosk.

Roxana Sima proposes a reading in the coffee grounds. She does her coffee grounds reading session in the ‘Macondo’ kiosk for one day, installing a small stove on which she will boil coffee in a special pot called ‘ibric’.

Searching for a poetical form of urban geology, Sonia Kacem intervenes in Rahova-Uranus’ public space, working on an often appearing form in public space: the pile, the accumulation of garbage, rubbish, building material, of sand and stones or just flotsam and jetsam.

The focus of Stephanie Giorgis’ installation is the changing urban landscape. Her installation is connected to the communitary space in Rahova-Uranus, where she built a sandbox for children as well as for adults.

Emeline Vitte is also concerned with the eclecticism of Bucharest’s architecture, which shows the change of the city.

In a utopian impulse to capture this evanescent instantaneity, Olga Kokcharova is walking through the city, reciting a text about its potential past and future, using fragments of historical references and quotations.

The sound and visual artist d’incise is working in close relationship with LaBomba’s actions in the neighborhood, generating artistic material and making it available as commons goods, open for future transformations and evolutions.

Ceel Mogami de Haas and Florent Meng decide to stride along the streets of the city of Bucharest during 5 days, inviting every day a new person to join them in a walk/talk.

With his sound works fusing musique concrète strategies with corroded archive material, wobbling between documentary testimonies and tactile textures, Vincent de Roguin involves the audience in a space where memories and physical reality are staged according to an uncanny play between scale, form and function.

The project is accompanied by Katharina Hohmann and Laurent Schmid, both professors HEAD Genève in collaboration with Felix Vogel.

*The title is a quotation from a sentence by Dan Perjovschi, on our first visit in his studio in Bucharest, during spring 2008, as well as referring to a film by Jean-Marie Straub / Danièle Huillet, 1981.

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