[curatorial.net] RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Project

[stefan rusu]

*RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios *

Period: May – October 2008

Project partners: KSAK Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau, Moldova and
VECTOR Association, Iasi, Romania

*RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios* is a collaboration project between
Contemporary Art Center from Chisinau and VECTOR Association from Iasi that
consist in a series of interdisciplinary workshops, production of 3
documentary films ( one film will be produced by VECTOR and 2 others by KSAK
Center ), 2 theoretical seminars that will take place in Iaşi and Chisinau
(July and October,  2008), a project publication and final exhibition
produced by KSAK Center in Chisinau, Moldova (October,  2008). The project
results will be also shown in the frame of 8 Periferic Biennale organized by
VECTOR in Iasi, Romania (October, 2008).

The project aim is to investigate by juxtaposing the current cultural,
social and political situation in two Moldova regions. The project will
comment upon the former and current conditions of two patterns:
post-socialist and post-soviet of two societies decades after the collapse
of eastern block and dismantling of Soviet Union. In the same time the
project team will look closely in to the future scenarios of the society's
in question. The project team will investigate the contexts of two Moldova
regions, one being part of Romania, a new EU member state, and the other, a
post-soviet independent republic. After the Second World War, the two
regions "experienced" different "ways"/evolutions of socialism, the
Ceausescu dictatorship in Romania characterized by protocronist nationalism
applied on gated socialism and the "Brejnev soviet style" which was replaced
later by Gorbatchev's Perestroika and Glasnost in Republic of Moldova. These
and other aspects related to the development of two regions will be analyzed
during the interdisciplinary workshop sessions and also during theoretical
seminars that will take place in Iasi, Romania and Chisinau, Moldova with
invited participants from Romania, Moldova, Germany, Holland, Hungary and
South Korea.

*RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios* is supported by PATERNS Program, ERSTE
Bank, Vienna, CANTEMIR Program/ICR, Bucharest and MONDRIAAN Stichting,
Amsterdam.


**Center for Contemporary Art-[KSA:K]* is a non-profit, independent
institution registered in the year 2000. The new strategy of the Center is
the development of cultural forms and art practices, which would reflect the
dynamic of the social, political and economic transformations of the
society. Center supports the advocacy activities in promoting of cultural
policies suitable for the defining and the consolidation of artist position
and contemporary art practices in the society. (www.art.md)

** Vector> Association *is a non-profit cultural association that provides
the production of exhibition and educational programs, research and editing
activities, analyzes of the relations between the art practices and visual
culture in socio-political context. Vector> supports those practices related
to social re-articulation, political consciousness and economical
transformation that brings critical analyses that could offer
reinterpretations of the attitudes and behavior from the perspective of
cultural action. (www.periferic.org)

Stefan Rusu- artist/curator
RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios Project Curator

Center for Contemporary Art-[KSA:K],
Str. Independentei 1, Post code 2043,
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
GSM+37369312435
Tel. +37322 772507,
tel/fax: +37322 573395

www.art.md
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