Contemporary Art Romania

28 June 2007

launching of VECTOR magazine, 3rd issue

Friday, June 29, h 19
Vector Gallery (Iasi, Cuza Voda 41, 1st floor)
launching of "Vector - art and culture in context" magazine with the participation of the editors Matei Bejenaru, Catalin Gheorghe and Cristian Nae

Vector magazine is a contributor for "documenta 12 magazine" which is developing its project in Kassel organizing lunch lectures, presentations and workshops between june 16 - september 23.

In September 10 - 16, the editors of Vector magazine are invited to participate in a series of lunch lectures on the theme of generating public sphere, together with editors from "De Witte Raaf", "Site", "Metropolis M", "Art-ist", "Piktogram", "Ojeblikket" and "Revista de Crítica Cultural" magazines.


3rd issue:
Vector - art and culture in context proposes in the opening a new series of presentations of art institutions activating in South East Europe and Middle East, the conception of an Western institutional initiative which is questioning the knowledge exchange between contexts and the first project realized in Iasi in the frame of Backyard Residencies program.
The second contribution of Vector magazine to the documenta 12 magazine editorial project is answering the question "What is Bare Life (Subjectification)?" both by a theoretical text about the resistance through small corruption in communist Romania and by a series of artistic projects proposed by invited artists and curators, talking about the photographic practice as simultaneously integrated and opposed to the practices of identity administration, about life taken on one's own as an artistic project, about hiding in plain sight the politically simplified aggression and about the creative reaction to the neoliberal scenarios.
The section assigned to the recent art theory and criticism approaches the "institutional critique" issue in a range of case studies about the situation of the production and inter-mediation of contemporary art in Bulgaria, Ukraine and Romania.
Other sections discuss situations of alternative everyday lifestyles, of commitments in tactical media or certain arguments about the organization of a film festival.


content:

building contexts, networking contexts
Margarita DOROVSKA
About Inter space, Sofia or how it came that new media matters in a broader socio-cultural context
Zoran PANTELIC
New Media Center _ kuda.org, novi sad
Yane CALOVSKI
Press to exit project space: ways of reinventing an idea
Basak SENOVA
Producing content, establishing culture, and visibility through the operation logic of nomad
Rejection Episodes; Kontrol online magazine
Galit EILAT
Forbidden Games at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
Andrei SICLODI
Private Investigations, the way we want them. Consideration on the institution of the artists' residency: the example of Kunstlerhaus Buhsenhausen

artists in context:
Asli CAVUSOGLU
MORT LA CREIER

"documenta 12 magazine":
what is bare life? (subjectification)
Sorin BOCANCEA
Resistance through small corruption in communist Romania
Florin BOBU
Mitica a lu' leanca (Mitica Leanca's son)
Raluca VOINEA, eduard CONSTANTIN
Trying to be a European citizen. A real-life project
Rana BISHARA
Secretive facts, pending families
Rozalinda BORCILA, Cristian NAE
Past futures

everyday lifestyles
Stefan TIRON
S.A.N.V.O.U. the spatial agency for nocturnal voyages to the origins of the universe. Messages received on board of the spaceship earth

tactical commitments
Johanne RICHARDSON
Memoirs of a video activist

critical condition: institutions
Dimitrina SEVOVA
Pessimism no more - exoticism is everywhere. Back to reality or micro-approaches for handling institutional matrices
Tamara ZLOBINA
Birth of institutions. Activities from Ukrainian voids
Alina SERBAN
The institution: friend or foe?
Catalin GHEORGHE
The positioning of the art criticism as an institution within an institution

interviews
Vlad MORARIU
Inter-text: celebrating change through art: Balkan Black Box film festival

exhibitional experiences
Kyd CAMPBELL, Basak SENOVA
Htmlles export 2 [06] - belgrade | sofia | istanbul

reading room
Vlad MORARIU
The other point of view: Balkan Trilogy


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Vector> Gallery
Cuza Voda 41, 1st Floor
700038 Iasi, Romania

tel/fax: +40 232 237 486
email: vector.gallery@gmail.com

opening hours: Tue - Fri 11 -15

press contact: Catalin GHEORGHE
mob: +40 723 785 816

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