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Matei Bejenaru: SITUATIONS / Personal performance projects in the public space

10 October 2019 by with comment off

12.10.2019 // Brancovenesti Palaces Cultural Center, Mogosoaia
11:00 – 14:00
Lectures and dialogue with the audience
SITUATIONS / Personal performance projects in the public space
Matei Bejenaru

The author will present a series of performative artistic projects realized in the 2000s, focused on the theme of the Romanian migration and the complex consequences on socio-political and cultural levels. Among the projects described, we mention Together, realized in 2007 at Tate Modern, London, Cezme, the Tirana Biennale in 2003, or Strawberry Fields Forever, CCCB Barcelona in 2002.

Matei Bejenaru (b. 1963) is a visual artist and professor of photography and video art at “George Enescu” National University of Arts Iasi. He is the founder and artistic director of Periferic Biennial for Contemporary Art in Iasi (between 1997 and 2008). In his latest projects, through photographs, video and public performances, he examines the politics of representation in documentary photography and film and methods of generation of hybrid art projects at the confluence between visual arts, poetry, experimental music and scientific research.

eXplore festival #14

Producers: 4Culture Association and WASP Studios
Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund – AFCN

The project does not necessarily represent the position of AFCN.
AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the way the project results can be used. This is entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

Partners: Balassi Institute – The Hungarian Institute in Bucharest, Brancovenesti Palaces Cultural Center, Geological Institute of Romania – National Museum of Geology, Craiova Art Museum

Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, ARTA Magazine, Designist, Feeder, IQads, Romania Pozitiva

Photo credit: Matei Bejenaru, Strawberry Fields Forever, performance, eBent Festival, CCCB Barcelona (E), curator: Maria Cosmes, 2002

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Veda Popovici: Body in Adversity / Performance lecture

9 October 2019 by with comment off

eXplore festival #14 – Bucharest International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival

▪️ 11.10.2019 // WASP Working Art Space and Production, Bucharest
19:30 – 20:30
Veda Popovici: Corp în adversitate / Body in Adversity
Performance lecture

Body in Adversity investigates the production conditions and effects of a performance series which took place within some feminist protests from 2011 until today, like Harmless Nature (SlutWalk 2011), On March 8 We Fight (March 8 feminist, 2016) or Drill (Black Protest 2016). Initiated / created by Veda Popovici, the performances have been developed as a response to the local and international feminist movements’ needs involving dozens of activists, artists and solidary people, and proposed a collective, radical and unapologetic embodiment of a feminist perspective, anchored in the local and regional context.

Body in Adversity proposes the articulation of a methodology for this type of an activist/artistic feminist performance, intersecting critical theory, social movements study, feminist theory, performative and artistic methods, iconological and aesthetical analysis. Part of the questions Body in Adversity searches answers for is: how were non-artists involved in the production of the pieces? To what extent has the chosen aesthetics distanced or attracted the audience from the theme represented? What kind of experience did the participants have in the performances? When is it appropriate to include a performance in a protest and when not?

Veda Popovici works as a political artist, engaged theorist and local activist. Her interests permeate these fields of action focusing on decolonial and feminist practices and the material possibilities of creating the commons. Her political work develops on housing struggles and communitarian organizing as part of Macaz cooperative, the Common Front for Housing Rights and the Gazette of Political Art. After finishing her PhD on nationalism in Romanian art of the 1980s, she has taught classes on decolonial thought, nationalism and feminist theory at the National University of Arts in Bucharest and at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is based in Bucharest.

Photo credits: Grigore Popescu

A project developed within Life Long Burning – Towards A Sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe, which sustains the contemporary dance and performance scene in Europe. The multiannual programme is coordinated and implemented by a network of 11 European organizations, associations, companies and production houses: 4Culture (RO), danceWEB (AT), ICI-Center Chorégraphique National De Montpellier (FR), Brain Store Project (BG), NDA Slovenia (SI), Stuk (BE), Tala Dance Center (HR), Uferstudios (DE), Veem House for Performance (NL), Workshop Foundation (HU) and MDT Stockholm (SE).

Life Long Burning – Towards A Sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance is a multi-annual project co-financed by The European Union – Creative Europe Programme.

eXplore festival #14

Producers: 4Culture Association and WASP Studios
Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund – AFCN

The project does not necessarily represent the position of AFCN.
AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the way the project results can be used. This is entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

Partners: Balassi Institute – The Hungarian Institute in Bucharest, Brancovenesti Palaces Cultural Center, Geological Institute of Romania – National Museum of Geology, Craiova Art Museum

Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, ARTA Magazine, Designist, Feeder, IQads, Romania Pozitiva

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A Luxury That We Can Not Afford (Wisdom of the Earth) by Manuel Pelmus, premiered today, October 8, at BOZAR, part of Europalia Arts Festival 2019

8 October 2019 by with comment off

4Culture Association and WASP Studios are delighted to announce the premiere of A Luxury That We Can Not Afford (Wisdom of the Earth), the newest creation of Manuel Pelmus, one of the most influential artists of the so-called New Performance Turn, in the frame of Europalia Arts Festival Romania 2019.

A Luxury That We Can Not Afford (Wisdom of the Earth) is an intangible, live version of Brancusisculpture Wisdom of the Earth. The ongoing action proposes another kind of relation to history, collective memory and to the exhibition space from Tuesday 8 October, to Saturday 12 October,  starting 14h30, at the Centre for Fine Arts Brussels – BOZAR, on the occasion of Brancusi: Sublimation of Form exhibition.

The art work will continue it’s European tour in Romania, and it will be presented in the frame of eXplore festival #14, at Craiova Art Museum  on October 29 and 30, and on November 1st and 2nd, 2019 at The National Museum of Geology in Bucharest.

A Luxury That We Can’t Afford (Wisdom of the Earth) starts from a less-known sculpture of Constantin Brancusi, Sculpture For the Blind (1920), along with an “immaterial” version of Wisdom of the Earth (1907). The live work aims to enter into dialogue with the history and legacy of the two Brancusi sculptures through speech, movement, strategies of enactment and politics of embodiment, proposing a less canonical narrative of art history, interrogating modernist constructs, as well as imagining a notion of history in motion, open to change and transformation.

In a dark room, the “immaterial” version of the Wisdom of the Earth sculpture, built from text, will come to life for several hours, updating and entering into dialogue with the gesture of Constantin Brancusi from 1920. The text is a collage consisting of comments made over time, from 1910 to the present, by the public and critics, often contradictory about the sculpture.Wisdom of the Earth responds and speaks “back”. Using Sculpture for the Blind dramaturgy, even if we don’t see it, we will have to listen to what it has to say and how it wants to rewrite history. A sculpture you don’t see, but you listen to.

The project is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute, within the Europalia Arts Festival 2019, and co-financed by AFCN – The Administration of the National Cultural Fund.

Manuel Pelmuș (b. 1974, Bucharest) lives and works in Oslo and Bucharest.  He is one of the most influential artists of the “new performance”, being interested in the last decade to reimagine the role of performance in the context of visual arts. In recent years, his projects have been presented at Para Site, Hong Kong (2017 – 2018), Tate Modern, London and Tate Liverpool (2016); Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2016); Off-Biennale Budapest (2015 and 2017); Kyiv Biennale (2015); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2014); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2014); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2014); Para Site, Hong Kong (2014); The Venice Biennale (2013), among others. In 2012, he was awarded the Berlin Art Prize for performance arts and the prize for excellence from the National Dance Center of Bucharest in 2014. Starting October 2019, Manuel Pelmus is a “research felow” at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO).Author: Manuel Pelmuș
With: Cristina Toma, Maria F. Scaroni
Production: WASP Studios
Co-financed by: Romanian Cultural Institute, The Administration of the National
Cultural Fund, Romania, Europalia Arts Festival
Commissioned by: EUROPALIA Arts Festival, curator Andreea Căpitănescu, for “Brancusi:
Sublimation of Form” at BOZAR Brussels
Partners: National Geology Museum – Bucharest and Craiova Art Museum
PROGRAM
BOZAR, Rue Ravenstein 23 – 1000 Brussels
OCT 8 – 12, 2019 14h30 – 16h30
JAN 23 – 25, 2020 14h30 – 16h30

Craiova Art Museum, Calea Unirii 15, Craiova
OCT 29 – 30, 2019 15h00 – 17h00

National Geology Museum, Kiseleff 2, Bucharest
NOV 01 – 02, 2019 13h00 – 15h00
In the picture: Maria F. Scaroni // Photo credit: Frank Sperling
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RAW Practices in Performance Art – Workshop with DD Dorvillier

10 September 2019 by with comment off

WASP Studios and 4Culture Association are inviting you to the “Touch Move Talk Write (TMTW): Observing Practices” workshop led by choreographer and dancer DD Dorvillier, on September 26, 2019, at WASP Working Art Space and Production, in Bucharest.

▪ The workshop is dedicated to art and dance practitioners
▪ Please send your CV in English to contact@waspmagazine.com for the registration
▪ Free of charge participation
▪ Limited number of participants
▪ Date and time: 26.09.2019 // 11:00 – 13:00
▪ Location: WASP Working Art Space and Production (67 – 93 Ion Minulescu Street, Flaros Factory, E building, 2nd floor, Bucharest)

The event is organized by WASP Studios within the RAW Practices in Performance Art program, co-financed by The Administration of The National Cultural Fund.

▪ Workshop details:

Touch Move Talk Write (TMTW): Observing Practices

In this workshop we will explore four elements intrinsic to choreographic practice – touching, moving, talking, writing. Each practice lasts the same duration, varying between one minute to one hour. The characteristic ways each individual sees things come to the fore and this becomes a subject of research. We observe how we work, see, and think. The practices act as a mirror, a reflexive space where we can collectively and individually discover and invent. Your own experience, curiosity and desire to share, are the fuel for experimenting with emerging forms, shared knowledge, new ways of being together with our choreographic questions. Please bring a notebook and something to write with.

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Through her artistic practice, DD Dorvillier has always challenged pre-established definitions, including her own, of dance and choreography. By building works through physical, conceptual, and philosophical approaches she researches the complex relationships between gesture, spectatorship, embodiment, language, and perception, in a playful yet urgent manner. An approach to sound, light, and objects as quasi-linguistic materials is at the heart of her process. In recent years she has developed a special attention to how place and site inform her artistic work.

Before moving to France in 2010, she lived and worked in New York City for 20 years. In 1991 she and dancer/choreographer Jennifer Monson created the Matzoh Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For over a decade the studio was a grassroots haven for wild experimentation where artists congregated for shows, rehearsals and readings.

Her works have been extensively presented and produced in Europe and New York and she has received numerous awards. In 2008 she was artistic mentor (alongside Trajal Harrell) of the DanceWeb program at ImPulsTanz. She worked as Associated artist-researcher with the exerce MA program at ICI – CCN in Montpellier 2017-19 and is now the Associated Artist at the Centre de développement chorégraphique national (CDCN) “Le Dancing” in Dijon, France. In 2019 she and composer Sébastien Roux will inaugurate La Corvette, a new grassroots space for research and experimentation in dance and music, in rural Burgundy, France. humanfuturedancecorps.org

Photo credit: Caroline Vincart

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Iosif Király: HEROES WERE PEOPLE JUST LIKE US. From selfie to monument

28 June 2019 by with comment off

Iosif Király // HEROES WERE PEOPLE JUST LIKE US. From selfie to monument

Permanent exhibition,  for programming please write us at contact@waspmagazine.com 
The exhibition investigates, through reconstructions and photographic associations, various situations in which citizens of the digital age relate to history and the personalities that have marked it.

Iosif Király is an artist, architect and educator who lives in Bucharest. He has participated in numerous national and international art exhibitions and events, both individually and in various collaborative projects, the most well-known project being the subREAL group.

He benefited from scholarships and artistic residencies, he has also participated and coordinated cultural and documentary programs. His works are in numerous art collections, both public and private.

He is one of the founding members (in 1995) of the Photography and Dynamic Department of the National University of Arts, Bucharest, where he is currently a professor. Starting 2013, he holds a course within the visual studies master of arts at SNSPA.

Photo credit: Iosif Király

 

 

 

 

 

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POST-PHOTOGRAPHIC NARRATIVES

16 April 2019 by with comment off

ROBERT BOUARIU/ ANDREI BOTNARU/ SILVIA CONSTANTIN/ LARISSA DANILOV/ MIHAI FLOREA/ OANA GOCIMAN/ FRANCESCA IGNAT/ MĂLINA MONCEA

 

On Thursday, April 18th, 2019, starting 6 p.m., WASP Working Art Space and Production (67-93 Ion Minulescu Street, Bucharest) will host the opening of Post-photographic Narratives, an exhibition produced by the Photo-Video students from “George Enescu” National University of the Arts in Iasi, coordinated by Matei Bejenaru, curated by Sarah Muscalu.
This project functions as a series of dialogues between the past, present and future built through the post-photographic language, common for the artistic practices exhibited. The visual solutions developed by these young artists propose specific contexts in which references to the past are working with subjects as memory and its reconstruction, the present is represented by the interactive dimension of the installations works which encourages unique, authentic and individual experience, leaving the references to the future narratives to be supported by digitally processed photos and three-dimensional printed objects that become vectors of rematerialization.
The exhibition ensemble is built on the active principles of memorizing, documenting and interpreting reality, each of the eight participating artists assuming their detachment of the real, redefining the notion of photographic truth. The plurality of the proposed discourses strengthens the syncretic character of the practices by which questioning of materiality becomes the result of the recycling of information in its various forms.
The exhibition can be visited until 25th April 2019 by appointment at coordination@4culture.ro / +40728083295.
WASP Working Art Space and Production
67-93 Ion Minulescu Street, building E, 2nd floor, Bucharest
 
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FOVEA, dance and short films projection on 14th April at WASP

9 April 2019 by with comment off

4Culture and Wallonie-Bruxelles Delegation in Bucharest have the pleasure to invite you on Sunday, 14th April, starting 6 pm at WASP Working Art Space and Production at FOVEA, one of the newest creation of Dame de Pic/Karine Ponties followed by the projection of two short dance films produced on the anniversary of twenty years of the company.

FOVEA is the rewriting of a body swept through by holes, by glimmers, by moments of incoherence. It is a project develloped from the desire of Karine Ponties of working with Ares d’Angelo in great detail, which fascinates and contradicts her.  A being’s identity is the struggle between two hemispheres that send opposite instructions, and in him this is pushed to the extreme. In his body electric impulses trigger muscle contractions and develop into an augmented force in a state close to unconsciousness.

The performance was presented for the first time in March 2019 at the National Theatre in Brussels, in the frame of XS Festival. On the 15th of April the piece will be presented also in Timisoara at the opening of Cafékultour festival.

Karine Ponties is the artistic director of Cie Dame de Pic, choreographer and performer. Along it’s twenty years of activity she created over forty dance pieces. Her work is characterised by a flair for the absurd, exploring intimacy and interlacing relationships.

Ares D’Angelo was born in Bologna, Italy. He studied classical and contemporary dance and choreography at Balleto di Toscana and at IT Dansa in Barcelona. He worked with choreographers as Roberto Zappalà, Lanonima Imperial, Anu Sistonen. Since 2012, he lives in Brussels, where he works with Dame de Pic – Karine Ponti, Uma Umma Dance, Marielle Morales and Salia Sanou.

Concept and choreography: Karine Ponties

Performer: Ares D’Angelo

Light designer and artistic collaborator: Guillaume Toussaint Fromentin

Costumes: Gaëlle Marras

Production: Dame de Pic/Cie Karine Ponties

The event includes the presentation of two short dance movies, produced at the anniversary of twenty years of activity of cie Dame de Pic: „20 years of Dame de Pic” by Wilkie Branson and „4PKP” by Yoann Stehr & Stephan Dubrana, on choreography of Karine Ponties.

Free entrance.

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