[spectre] Found Footage Exhibition_Chisinau,Moldova

[stefan rusu]

Press Release
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Found Footage Exhibition

The organizer: KSAK-Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau
Location: Exhibition Hall of The Art Coleege A. Plamadeala

Opening: Luni-29 of October, ora 18.00
Press conference: 17.00
The exhibition will be open: 29 of October - 7 of November 2007.

Curator: Stefan Rusu

The exhibition presents the results of the workshop which was focused
on in-depth exploration of the use of archival material, the
aesthetics of appropriation, sampling and detournement, and the
transfer of cinematic language to digital forms. The workshop was
consisted in theoretical presentations, film screenings, and assisted
hands-on workshops (selection of archival sources, analogue-digital
transfers, montage) and it provided an opportunity for cross-cultural
exchange between artists and students from Moldova, regional artists
from Balkan countries, and the international guests who have been
invited to develop the workshop.

The exhibition brings to the public attention a number of films
produced by the participants that shows critical engagement toward the
current condition of post-soviet and post-socialist societies. The
artists where especially interested in investigating the re-use of
film aesthetics and digital technologies in exploring and commenting
upon the gaps/ruptures/continuities between the dismantling of
socialism and the current neo-liberal system.

Participants:
Alina Popa si Olivia Mihaltianu (Bucharest, Romania),
Andreea Carnu (Constanta, Romania)
Lavinia German (Baia Mare, Romania)
Liviu Pop (Cluj Napoca, Romania)
Milena Putnik (Belgrade, Serbia)
Zoran Djurkovic (Belgrade, Serbia)
Maxim Kuzmenko (Chisinau, Moldova)
Victor Ciobanu (Chisinau, Moldova)
Ghenadie Popescu  (Chisinau, Moldova)
Alexandru Raevski (Chisinau, Moldova)
Fiodorova Tatiana (Chisinau, Moldova)
Vadim Tiganas (Chisinau, Moldova)

Guest tutors:
John Davis (San Francisco, USA) is a media artist exploring the
intersections of film, video, photography, experimental sound and
social practices. Link: http://www.noiseforlight.com
Joanne Richardson (Cluj, Romania) is a cultural theorist, video artist
and coordinator of D Media, an NGO producing digital media & engaged
art. Link:  http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/richardsonbio.html

Kathrin Becker (Berlin, Germany) is an art historian, curator and the
director of NBK (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein) Video Forum. Link:
http://www.nbk.org/video-f.html

Project partners:
D Media Association, Romania
Baza - Belgrade Art Initiatives, Serbia
NBK Video Forum, Germany

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 develops and supports the advocacy
activities in promotion of cultural policies suitable for the defining
and the consolidation of artist position and contemporary art
practices in the society.

This project is supported by ECF (European Cultural Foundation),
Amsterdam; USA Embassy in Rep. of Moldova; Fine Arts College Al.
Plamadeala; The Union of Cineastes from Rep. Moldova.
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Stefan Rusu –   FF project curator

Address:        Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana, Chisinau -[KSA:K],
Str. Independentei, 1, (Colegiul Al. Plamadeala)
Postal code: MD-2043, Chisinau, Republica  Moldova

Phone:GSM+37369312435
Tel. +37322 772507,
tel/fax: +37322 573395