[spectre] Private Investigations 4: Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor

[buchsenhausen.labor]

<Private Investigations 4>

Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
<The Trial>

Opening:
Wednesday, 16.11.2005, 19.00
STADTTURMGALERIE
Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 21, Innsbruck

Artists talk:
Thursday, 17.11.2005, 18.00
STADTTURMGALERIE
Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 21, Innsbruck

exhibition dates:
17.11. - 10.12.2005

opening hours:
Tue - Sat 15.00-19.00


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Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
<The Trial>

In their long-term artistic research project Mona Vatamanu and Florin 
Tudor deal with forms and functions of serial - residential - 
architecture and with the urban environment it has an impact on. Being 
equally rooted in the architectural and the artistic scene, Vatamanu and 
Tudor are interested in the documentation and the artistic reflection on 
modernist – and consequently also post-communist – architecture of the 
post-war era whose physical presence continues to shape and structure 
the lives of millions of people. The exhibition presents recent works 
combining visual research on this topic done in Austria, Romania and 
Norway with autobiographical reflections.

Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor live in Bukarest. They were resident 
artists at Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen from April to July 2004.

www.exapes.org


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Other current exhibitions in the framework of <Private Investigations>
until 02.12.2005:

Urtica Art and Media Research Group: <Social Engine>
ixi software: <Lore / Composing Paper>

Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen
Weiherburggasse 13, Innsbruck
Tue - Fri 16.00 - 19.00

www.buchsenhausen.at

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<Private Investigations>
Research, Acquisition and Processing of Knowledge in Contemporary Art 
Practices

BAVO, Judith Fischer & Claudia Hardi, Geoffrey Garrison, Catalin 
Gheorghe, Natascha Hagenbeek, Kristina Inciuraite, ixi software, Meta 
Haven Research Group, Hinrich Sachs, Urtica Art and Media Research 
Group, Alexander Vaindorf, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Stevan Vukovic

<Private Investigations> is a research project on contemporary art 
practices that make use of various individual (non-scientific) research 
methods and strategies in order to acquire information and to process it 
to knowledge bases, which may then be used as the material of the 
artistic work itself. Since these strategies and methods are fairly 
common in the artistic research and production in the institutional 
context of residency and postgraduate programmes, the project also 
intends to analyse these specific working conditions. The project is 
structured as a series of residencies, exhibitions and symposia, 
screenings and presentations, held at different locations in Central and 
South-Eastern Europe over the next two years.

As a point of departure, the exhibition and discussion series in 
Innsbruck, between November 10, 2005 and February 3, 2006, at the 
Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, the Stadtturmgalerie and the Kunstpavillon, 
presents and discusses works by former fellows of the international 
residency programme for visual and media arts <büchsenhausen.air> from 
the past three years. The artists and theorists invited deal in various 
ways with particular strategies and forms of artistic research into 
topics such as the spreading of cultural patterns (Memetics), 
collaborative artistic production and generative software, serial 
architecture and its influence on the human behaviour, the idiomatic 
behaviour of an artists’ community in a context of transition, the 
social and psychological changes within society by examining notions of 
female identity, models of language and image perception through 
cinematographic and computerised knowledge acquisition and organisation, 
and fieldwork as an artistic practice. In addition, the project focuses 
on and examines more closely the research and production conditions in 
the post-academic context of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. In 
this framework researchers and advising researchers from the three 
Departments (Fine Art, Design and Theory) will present and discuss their 
ongoing projects.

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