Enacting text / Performing Social Progress

Period: 20-30.06.2012
Location: Muzeul Zemstvei, str. Şciusev 103, Chişinău
Launching: June 20, 2012, at 6 pm
The Exhibition is opened each day between 12 pm-6 pm

The Exhibition totalizes and presents projects realized by the participants of the Enacting text/
Performing Social Progress Workshop, organized by KSAK Center in collaboration with Les Ateliers
du Vent, France, in the frame of TANDEM project.

The workshop has been conceived as an education platform, based on new practices and produced in
collaboration with institutions of higher education in visual arts from Chisinau, Oradea, Bucharest
and Iasi. The starting point of the workshop was represented by Urmuz, Daniil Harms and Henri
Michaux texts, appeared in the interwar period, that now have been used to encourage the creation
of new works process, which intercalated performing arts, contemporary dance and performance
practices.
At the workshop were invited students, artists and teachers from institutions of higher education in the
visual arts from Moldova and Romania.

Invited tutors from Les Ateliers du Vent (France), Norway and Romania have coordinated theoretical
and practical sections, as well the final presentation of the workshop results.
Aesthetic position of artists in the interwar period, which starts from the myth of art / artist
independence by processes that occur in society, has been questioned in the new social and political
conditions on the reuse and re-evaluation of their prose and poetry.
Works made ​by participants suggest a reinterpretation of the role of artist in today's society in terms of
contemporary practices and art theory.

Invited tutors: Mia Habib/NO, Alexandru Antik/RO and Alain Helou /Les Ateliers du Vent/FR
Participants:
Evelina Babii/MD
Valeria Barbas and Alex Cosmescu/MD
Ion Borş and Tatiana Miron/MD
Raluca Croitoru/RO
Izsak Elod/RO
Mireana Hmelnitkaia/MD
Аnastasia Sidorenko/MD
Andrei Şimanschi/MD
Jakab Szilard-Andras/RO
Anastasia Trifan/MD
Eliza Ursachi/RO

Enacting text / Performing Social Progress Workshop is a part of Drifting Identities Project developed
in the frame of HEICO Network, curated by Stefan Rusu.

This project is supported by European Commission, ECF (European Cultural Foundation), Amsterdam
and ICR (Institutul Cultural Roman) Chisinau.