Hi!!!
This is great to be here. to discover the city and meeting with you is great chance!
I am an Istanbul based artist.
My work addresses topics of technological progress, gender roles, and the social structures of politics and culture. Specifically, I explore the concept of identity against a backdrop of "political pollution" brought about by a deprivation of trust in politics, society, and democracy. I am interested in the pressures that result from repressive control mechanisms, and how these pressures impact psychologically on society. These topics are rooted in complex historical developments. In my work I try to develop new ways of speaking about these issues, to re-contextualize them and inspire individual responses.
looking forward to meet you all.
Dilek
Sunday, 19 February 2012
Welcome!
Here is a tag that you can attach to stuff you put up. You can also "cross-reference" by adding more tags.
We would be really happy if you post something about yourself and your interest in this project here as a sort of introduction to the other participants,
With friendly regards,
Josefin, Emma and Tess
Welcome!
Here is a tag that you can attach to stuff you put up. You can also "cross-reference" by adding more tags.
We would be really happy if you post something about yourself and your interest in this project here as a sort of introduction to the other participants,
With friendly regards,
Josefin, Emma and Tess
introduction
Hi fellow travelers, I'm Fifi Smith.
I'm just touching base with all of you fellow artists. I'm Irish, (Republic) and based just outside of Dublin. At present a lot of my pratice involves light and shadow installations. if you want to have a look, my website is www.fifismith.net
Here is a little text to give you all a sense of where I'm coming from:-
"At the core of my work is an aesthetic exploration of the liminal activity in an individuals head between waking and sleeping, thinking and feeling, between individuality and conformity. We all think we make daily decisions on the grounds of reason, but is it the emotional that dominates our thinking process, or logic. Where in the ‘in-between’ does our motivation for our actions lie.
In these tiny transitions of the mind, there are no certainties, and therefore, no absolutes, it is a wonder -world of exploration for this artist!"
Meanwhile, I have been reading what I can about the city of Bucharest, and am beginning to get a 'feel' for the place. There have been some very lively debates going on in the art world there, but I can't wait to get my feet on the ground to see what it is really like.
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
engage2012: Welcome!
engage2012: Welcome!: Welcome Karen! Here is a tag that you can attach to stuff you put up. You can also "cross-reference" by adding more tags. We would be rea...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
romanian folk music
I was speaking with a romanian woman about music and poetry, she said that this song embodied romania for her and that when she heard it she got tears in her eyes.
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Sunday, 29 January 2012
Aoife Flynn
Hi all, I'm really excited to be taking part in Engage 2012 with you all. I'm a visual artist from Wicklow, currently based in Monster Truck Studios in Dublin. I did my BA in Limerick and just finished my MA in IADT in Dun Laoghaire. My current research is looking into Soviet science fiction and how it was used as a way of bypassing censorship, something I'm really interested in pursuing while in Bucharest. I also have been talking about Bucharest with my dad as he visited there in 1968 when the Iron Curtain was still very much up so I'm looking a revisiting some the places he went while he was there. Will post more when I get the time,
looking forward to meeting you all,
Aoife
looking forward to meeting you all,
Aoife
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
a bit off subject but a really cool platform
I was just browsing, and was sort of wowed by this gallery; how they function as a platform/ meeting point between the artist/audience. and I guess it is interesting to see an approach which is not entirely seperate to some of the issues and reasons and situations in engage
http://www.recessart.org/past
http://www.recessart.org/past
engage2012: Welcome!
engage2012: Welcome Hello to everybody,
I am looking foreword to come together in this project.
I am curious to meet and to exchange about how we observe the situation being part in the project and being outsiders of being “Bucharest people”.
I am attached to visions of artist from different venues as well as different point of views emphasised by the fact of different cultural back grounds and ethical, social disposition.
Beside I believe in creating a platform for cultural exchange which values a cultural identity as well as being open to expand towards a vision for a society which makes people feel integrated and responsible.
Coming from a dance-theatrical background and also performing a lot outside,
I have a natural interested in atmosphere of place, surroundings, environments or living conditions.
It would be inspiring to see the emotion of the city in terms of how warm hearted people are or closed off, including all different face of human kind.
How many different cultures life together, life standards, immigrants, gypsies …
How the sound of the city will be, the mood, the smell and the way of life.
How do the people response about their city and their country?
Are they sad or optimistic about life and future?
How do I feel there? Can we relate? Do we meet?
In that sense I would like to explore the city by walking around and follow my nose.
I am looking foreword to come together in this project.
I am curious to meet and to exchange about how we observe the situation being part in the project and being outsiders of being “Bucharest people”.
I am attached to visions of artist from different venues as well as different point of views emphasised by the fact of different cultural back grounds and ethical, social disposition.
Beside I believe in creating a platform for cultural exchange which values a cultural identity as well as being open to expand towards a vision for a society which makes people feel integrated and responsible.
Coming from a dance-theatrical background and also performing a lot outside,
I have a natural interested in atmosphere of place, surroundings, environments or living conditions.
It would be inspiring to see the emotion of the city in terms of how warm hearted people are or closed off, including all different face of human kind.
How many different cultures life together, life standards, immigrants, gypsies …
How the sound of the city will be, the mood, the smell and the way of life.
How do the people response about their city and their country?
Are they sad or optimistic about life and future?
How do I feel there? Can we relate? Do we meet?
In that sense I would like to explore the city by walking around and follow my nose.
Monday, 23 January 2012
Shared research
Hello all of us,
I thought maybe we could share some preparative research here on the blog by posting stuff connected to this tag - "Info on Bucharest". I know Emma and Tess are already piling stuff - maybe you could post it here?
Everyone else invited of course,
Josefin
I thought maybe we could share some preparative research here on the blog by posting stuff connected to this tag - "Info on Bucharest". I know Emma and Tess are already piling stuff - maybe you could post it here?
Everyone else invited of course,
Josefin
Welcome!
Welcome Karen!
Here is a tag that you can attach to stuff you put up. You can also "cross-reference" by adding more tags.
We would be really happy if you post something about yourself and your interest in this project here as a sort of introduction to the other participants,
With friendly regards,
Josefin, Emma and Tess
Here is a tag that you can attach to stuff you put up. You can also "cross-reference" by adding more tags.
We would be really happy if you post something about yourself and your interest in this project here as a sort of introduction to the other participants,
With friendly regards,
Josefin, Emma and Tess
Monday, 16 January 2012
on meeting
this is a very simple quote from a travel article. but it led me to think about meeting, gathering, and dialogue
Horia Diaconescu, a keen observer of the city in which he’s spent his 29 years, they represent a sea change. Under Communism, he explained, public life was restricted — people simply did not go out to meet friends (or strangers) in bars and cafes. They socialized in private homes, or not at”
http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/spying-on-bucharests-cool-underground/
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Call out for participants
ENGAGE PROJECT 2012
_ CALL-OUT FOR PARTICIPANTS!
Engage 2012 is an artist initiative aiming to bring together artists in a 10-day long collaborative research session. This will take place in Bucharest, Romania, hosted by Bucharest Air, from 16th-25th of March 2012.
The purpose of the encounter is to explore Bucharest city combining individual investigations with a collective process consisting of daily meetings and conversations. The invited artists are encouraged to enter the project through the perspective of their own art-practice. The key issues of the project are ideas of inside(r)/ outside(r), separate/ integrated, subject/ object.
During the course of the project the participants will live together in close accommodations provided by Bucharest Air. They are expected to participate in the daily maintenance of the space during this time (ie. basic cooking and cleaning). During each day the participants of the project are expected to go out on their own, exploring the city as individual artists. These experiences, as well as thoughts, ideas or collected ephemera constitute the topics of the conversations later in the evening (or at other times as agreed within the group).
The project is dialogue based: It is about being in a dialogue with the city and with the other participants of the engage collective. The participants are not expected to make work during the time of the project, but instead the collective conversations will be recorded with video or audio. This material will be used for a publication and as documentation of the project.
During the course of the project the participants will live together in close accommodations provided by Bucharest Air. They are expected to participate in the daily maintenance of the space during this time (ie. basic cooking and cleaning). During each day the participants of the project are expected to go out on their own, exploring the city as individual artists. These experiences, as well as thoughts, ideas or collected ephemera constitute the topics of the conversations later in the evening (or at other times as agreed within the group).
The project is dialogue based: It is about being in a dialogue with the city and with the other participants of the engage collective. The participants are not expected to make work during the time of the project, but instead the collective conversations will be recorded with video or audio. This material will be used for a publication and as documentation of the project.
The engage collective will gather a group of ca 6-9 participants. The number of participants is restricted to this number to benefit good conversations (quality before quantity).
During the final three days of the project the collective dialogues will be held in public, and during this time anyone who wants can join, as a way of presentation.
_
DETAILS
Dates: 16th -25th March 2012
Where: Bucharest Air, Bucharest, Romania
Costs: Engage 2012 is an artist-initiative, and at this moment we have no funding secured. Participants are expected to cover their own travel expenses plus €175 towards housing and food. These are the basic, minimum costs for the project; it is a non-profit endeavor. We encourage selected participants to apply for local funding where possible.
Who are we looking for? We prefer that participants have never been to Bucharest before/ We prefer that participants are communicative and socially aware since an important part of the project is collective and communication based/ We prefer participants who can speak reasonably good English, since this will be the language used primarily / We prefer participants that are hungry, happy, passionate and adventurous.
Applications should contain: Letter of motivation, CV, and link to artists website or digital portfolio.
Applications can be sent to: engage.project2012@gmail.com. (Make sure to write Application in the “subject” field).
Deadline: The 15th of February all applicants will be notified. However, selected participants will be notified as early as possible (so as to facilitate individual fundraising). This means that early applicants have a better chance to enter the project than late ones.
About Engage 2012: Engage is an initiative developed by artists Josefin Rasmuson, Emma Haugh, and Tess Walkowski. For more information see http://engageinternational.blogspot.com.
About Bucharest Air: Bucharest Air is a residency program in the city of Bucharest, Romania, initiated by visual artist Tudor Bratu (http://www.bucharestair.com/).
Sunday, 25 December 2011
Monday, 19 December 2011
Interesting exhibition text
The Power of Doubt at Guangdong Times Museum
The Power of DoubtCurator: Hou Hanru
Participating Artists: Hamra Abbas, Adel Abdessemed, Du Zhenjun, Thierry Fontaine, Shaun Gladwell, Jiang Zhi, Dinh Q Lê, Wangechi Mutu, Pak Sheung Chuen, Dan Perjovschi, Shahzia Sikander, Dimitar Solakov, Nedko Solakov, Sun Xun, Tsang Kin-Wah, Wong Hoy Cheong
18 December 2011–6 February 2012
Our era is the one dominated, shaped and determined by digital technologies. Our existences and identities are continuously transformed and redefined by interfaces in the form of flux of digitalised images and texts. These interfaces are oscillating between facts and fictions. They construct the contemporary substance of reality and truth.
Art and artists today, like the world itself, are largely “globalised.” Digital media—from still and moving images to the internet—are both the resources and materials for artistic production. Artists continue to confront, embrace and inquire the nature of reality, truth and dreams. But the processes are unprecedentedly fluid, uncertain and precarious while the outcomes are generating more suspense, doubt and critique than conclusion and resolution.
This is a seemingly open and liberated globalised world that, in turn, violently imposes fictions of happiness and peace through flattening the reality into an interface that compress every human activity into act of communication of a single truth. Behind the “freedom” of expression and communication provided by Google, Facebook, Youtube and iPhone, etc., in the field of economy, we can only accept to survive in a neo-liberalism system while politically we are encouraged to embrace the hegemony of a kind of “democracy” dictated by the logic of global imperialism. This is particularly articulated in locations that are experiencing social transformations.
The Power of Doubt superposes site-specific installations and existing works—in various new and old media but relating to photography as a model of perception—that embody the necessity of doubting the “mainstream” way of seeing, recording and communicating the real world, which, once again, oscillating between spectacular “truths” and dramatic fictions. Most of the artists are from countries such as China, Eastern Europe, that experience drastic changes from communism to capitalism and South East Asia, Africa, who are constantly negotiating between post-colonial memory and geopolitical conflicts, searching solution to deconstruct the double-bind status quo blocked into post-colonial and neo-liberal systems. They are also highly individualised and singular voices that cry out the collective doubts and desires of their societies while expressing highly different and diversified interests in artistic and intellectual pursuits.
It’s the hybridity and multiplicity produced by the encounter, dialogue and debates within this multitude—which represent most intensely the formation of a new global multitude of people who refuse to trust the imposed truth of the dominant system and struggle to achieve an emancipated truth—that will form a fantastic space of meeting with the public and extend invitations to their participation in the process of struggle. Here, we’ll all share the very power of doubt!
For further information, please refer to www.timesmuseum.org
//emma
Art and artists today, like the world itself, are largely “globalised.” Digital media—from still and moving images to the internet—are both the resources and materials for artistic production. Artists continue to confront, embrace and inquire the nature of reality, truth and dreams. But the processes are unprecedentedly fluid, uncertain and precarious while the outcomes are generating more suspense, doubt and critique than conclusion and resolution.
This is a seemingly open and liberated globalised world that, in turn, violently imposes fictions of happiness and peace through flattening the reality into an interface that compress every human activity into act of communication of a single truth. Behind the “freedom” of expression and communication provided by Google, Facebook, Youtube and iPhone, etc., in the field of economy, we can only accept to survive in a neo-liberalism system while politically we are encouraged to embrace the hegemony of a kind of “democracy” dictated by the logic of global imperialism. This is particularly articulated in locations that are experiencing social transformations.
The Power of Doubt superposes site-specific installations and existing works—in various new and old media but relating to photography as a model of perception—that embody the necessity of doubting the “mainstream” way of seeing, recording and communicating the real world, which, once again, oscillating between spectacular “truths” and dramatic fictions. Most of the artists are from countries such as China, Eastern Europe, that experience drastic changes from communism to capitalism and South East Asia, Africa, who are constantly negotiating between post-colonial memory and geopolitical conflicts, searching solution to deconstruct the double-bind status quo blocked into post-colonial and neo-liberal systems. They are also highly individualised and singular voices that cry out the collective doubts and desires of their societies while expressing highly different and diversified interests in artistic and intellectual pursuits.
It’s the hybridity and multiplicity produced by the encounter, dialogue and debates within this multitude—which represent most intensely the formation of a new global multitude of people who refuse to trust the imposed truth of the dominant system and struggle to achieve an emancipated truth—that will form a fantastic space of meeting with the public and extend invitations to their participation in the process of struggle. Here, we’ll all share the very power of doubt!
For further information, please refer to www.timesmuseum.org
//emma
Friday, 16 December 2011
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Emma Haugh - Artist Bio
Emma Haugh
Current ideas will find their way to Finland in summer 2012 when Emma will take up residence with Platform art collective in Vaasa for two months to make and present new work.Emma graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology with a first class Honours BA in photography in 2010.
She has had two solo exhibitions (Without A Trace destroying the archive-The Joinery Gallery Dublin and BERGHAIN-Commonplace projects Dublin) and has shown work in-group exhibitions and screenings in Pallas Contemporary Projects, The Gallery of Photography and the Darklight film festival. Emma has been awarded two studio-based residencies and has taken part in several experimental residential projects organized by The Good Hatchery (Co. Offaly, Ireland).
Artist Bio - Tess Walkowski
Tess Walkowski
Tess Walkowski (US) is originally from Detroit but has lived in the Netherlands since 2006. In her work, which often has a strong performative aspect, she explores the boundaries between herself and her audience. In this process everyone is vulnerable and entangled in mutual attack, play and seduction. These events are often supported by the construction of a self-built room or a site, made from recycled or second hand materials. Surrounded by a collection of objects Tess Walkowski plays music and reads poetry, inviting the listeners to participate in an intimate/ spiritual exchange.
To abandon, means to enter the moment.
To seduce, means to invite into the moment.
To be present is to experience.
And to create is to attempt to open this to others.
Become.
Experience.
Be present.
Tess Walkovski has exhibited and performed in The Black Box, (Amsterdam), Planet Art (nominated for The Young Blood Award) and Extrapool (Nijmegen). She is currently doing impromptu shows on the streets of Amsterdam (ie. outside the Van Gogh Museum on Amsterdam Museum Night) and preparing to move to NY in the summer 2012.
Tess Walkowski is also currently busy with a series of oil paintings about transmission and abandon, and is experimenting with neu artuadian theatre.
Artist Bio - Josefin Rasmuson
Josefin Rasmuson
Josefin Rasmuson (SWE) is a Stockholm-based artist whose work is centered around the idea and imagery of the urban landscape.
In her drawings she explores city locations, from empty corridors and office spaces to deserted bus stops and crossings, showing a cold and sometimes hostile environment. In the drawings Untitled, Stairway in the metro (2010-11) this sense of emptiness remains, despite the fact that the depicted space is visibly crowded. The subject of these drawings is the movement and mass of people at metro stations during rush hour. Here it is precisely the contrast between void and the occupied space, the expressionlessness of the single individuals that becomes central to the experience of emptiness, loneliness and distance. The drawings are executed with black or blue ballpoint pen, a medium that - with its sheer banality - serves to further emphasize the uncanny undertone in the apparently everyday motives.
Josefin Rasmuson has studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam 2006-2010, and has since then been involved in a variety of different projects. Her work has been exhibited over the past year in The Black Box (NL), This is Not a Gateway (UK), The Circle Gallery (NL) and most recently in Reciclart (BE). She has also participated in various initiatives such as The Calendrier Publication (launch 24 nov 2011, Brussels) and Aerial Blue, organized by the Good Hatchery, Ireland. Drawings from the series Untitled Stairway in the Metro will be shown at Liljevachs Vårsalong, Stockholm, SWE, 27 Jan-25 March 2012.
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