[spectre] (fwd) ACAF July Lectures: Vlad Nanca, Rana Dasgupta, Raimi Gbadamosi

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Subject: July Lectures: Vlad Nanca, Rana Dasgupta, Raimi Gbadamosi
From: "Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum" <office at acafspace.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:16:59 +0000 (UTC)



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PUBLIC LECTURES IN JULY 2009

“Vlad Nanca lives and works in Bucharest” A talk 
by Vlad Nanca, Saturday 4 July 7 pm


   ABSTRACT
Vlad Nanca will deliver a presentation on his 
work and his personal course as an artist, 
drawing attention towards utilizing DIY (do it 
yourself) methods and tactics in pursuing an art 
career (self education, exhibiting, networking).

Vlad Nanca (BIO)
Vlad Nanca (1979) lives and works in Bucharest. 
Artist and sometimes curator Nanca studied 
photography and video at the University of Arts 
in Bucharest. Drawing on the environment and 
influence of Bucharest life, he documents 
urbanity through his photography. He is the 
founder of the Bukresh 
blog(<http://www.emailbrain.com/sendlink.asp?HitID=1246277723000&StID=83041&SID=1&NID=525110&EmID=121910590&Link=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5idWtyZXNoLmJsb2dzcG90LmNvbQ%3D%3D>bukresh.blogspot.com) 
and is actively involved in the progression of 
the city’s art-scene hosting ‘home galleries’ 
(2020 homegallery 2003-2007, Apartamentul 17 
2008-) and curating exhibitions (Wait
 2006, Back 
to the future/Cu Spatele la Viitor 2007, at 
Galeria Noua, Bucharest) to encourage and support 
local artists by offering a platform to show 
their work. Utilizing different mediums his 
varying projects employ political and cultural 
codes, often using word-play to evoke a 
rethinking of nostalgia, referencing Romania’s 
recent past, and challenging the current social 
and political climate (I do not know what union I 
want to belong to anymore, Original Adidas, 
Terrorist Balloon, Proposal for the National 
Redemption Cathedral, etc). Recently Nanca 
successfully collaborated with other artists as 
with Janek Simon in Remix (Raster Gallery, 
Warsaw, Poland) and with Mircea Nicolae and 
Nicoleta Esinencu for two site specific 
installations in Chisianu Moldova (part of the 
Inteventii 3 festival).




Lecture by Rana Dasgupta 12 July 2009, 7 pm


   ABSTRACT
Author of two novels, Rana Dasgupta nonetheless 
feels that he is working in a waning cultural 
form. The inescapable centrality of human 
character to the novel makes it difficult to bend 
fiction to the condition of the twenty-first 
century, and condemns the novel, too often, to 
besiegement and nostalgia. In this lecture, he 
will tell stories that novels cannot tell - and 
explain why he draws his inspiration less from 
literature than from the art world. What is at 
stake is the question of a contemporary global 
"citizenship," and the role of various creative 
practices in elaborating new forms of being.

Rana Dasgupta (BIO)
Rana Dasgupta was born in England in 1971. Having 
lived in France, Malaysia and the United States, 
he moved to Delhi in 2001. He is the author of 
"Tokyo Cancelled" (2005) and "Solo" (2009).




“Art and the Nation State”
A Lecture by Raimi Gbadamosi, 19 July, 7 pm

   ABSTRACT
Raimi Gbadamosi will look at art as a device for 
constructing the social self, determined by the 
polis, not governing bodies. What is the role of 
the monument as against the public sculpture? How 
is art made in isolation transformed into an 
instrument of nation building? What is the role 
of international exhibitions and art fairs in 
projecting the image of the nation state? How 
does the diplomatic and in some cases military 
apparatus of the nation state affect the 
consumption of and placement of art and artists 
on the world stage? What does the nation benefit 
from supporting culture financially and 
diplomatically when the monies made rarely 
circulate beyond a small group, and the credit 
goes to the individual artist? What is the place 
of ephemeral works in the nation’s image of 
itself? What does the artist give up when they 
choose to inadvertently represent the nation? 
Where do ephemera and ephemeral practices fit in 
the creation of national and social construction?

Raimi Gbadamosi (BIO)
Raimi Gbadamosi is an artist, writer and curator. 
He received his Doctorate in Fine Art from the 
Slade School of Fine Art,. He is a member of the 
Interdisciplinary Research Group 'Afroeuropeans', 
University of Leon, Spain, and the 'Black Body' 
group, Goldsmiths College, London. He is also on 
the Editorial board of Third Text.	 Recent 
national and international shows and events 
include: ARCO Madrid 2009; Tentativa De Agotar Un 
Lugar Africano, CASM, Barcelona 2008; Human 
Cargo, Plymouth Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth 
2007; Port City, Arnolfini, Bristol 2007. ARCO 
2009, Madrid/. Work media including multiples, 
music, websites, writing and audience 
participation. Works creates debate, instead of 
representing preconceived concerns defined by 
specific social, cultural and political cant. 
Books include: incredulous; ordinary people; 
extraordinary people; contents; Drink Horizontal; 
Drink Vertical; The Dreamers' Perambulator; and 
four word. The Republic 
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negotiates the meeting of language and social 
constructions. Recent essays include: The Not-So 
New Europeans, Wasafiri UK (current issue), and 
The Delight of Giant-Slayers: Or Can Artists 
Commit Their Lives to Paper? ArtMonitor, Sweden.

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