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EXPLORING PLUREALITIES Symposium #2 http://waspmagazine.com/en/simpozion-2-exploring-plurealities/ http://waspmagazine.com/en/simpozion-2-exploring-plurealities/#comments Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:32:13 +0000 admin http://waspmagazine.com/?p=7573 ...]]> EXPLORING PLUREALITIES Symposium # 2

14-18.11. 2023, Bucharest

Free entry

Reservations: eventbrite/email coordination@4culture.ro

4Culture announces the opening of the EXPLORING PLUREALITIES #2 Symposium. Over the 5 days of interactive events, workshops and artist talks the symposium will present a contemporary format of practices developed in relation to visual and performing arts. Topics such as discussing the relationship between the body and space, dialogue and relational practices, as well as conversations on participatory art will bring together insightful perspectives.

Mette Edvardsen

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine – November 16-18, 2023, 14:00-19:00, Cărturești Carusel

The Symposium brings back the production “Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine” by Mette Edvardsen, at Cărturești Carusel. The artist will be present alongside a group of performers who will form a library of living books inspired by Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. Learn more and register.

Mette Edvardsen will hold artistic meetings at WASP Working Art Space and Production as part of the Writings in Space and Time laboratory: 14-15 november 2023.

Florian Malzacher

The Art of Assembly XXV. Assemblies of Individuals. Live work in Non-Performance Spaces – November 15, 2023, 19:00, WASP Working Art Space and Production

The Art of Assembly (book presentation) – November 16, 2023, 18:00, MODUL Cărturești

  • The Art of Assembly XXV. Assemblies of Individuals. Live work in Non-Performance Spaces within the Future Museums laboratory addresses the themes of social and political movements of recent years that have often been characterized by their search for alternative forms of gathering, of arguing and making decisions, of negotiating community and society. This event will take place at WASP Working Art Space and Production.

Guests: Tino Sehgal and Mette Edvardsen.

  • Florian Malzacher will have a book presentation for The Art of Assembly Political Theatre Today, at MODUL Cărturești, along with a discussion on the topic of political theater moderated by Cristina Modreanu.

  • Laboratory meetings with Florian Malzacher: 16-17.11.2023 at WASP Working Art Space and Production

Public Events Program:

15.11.2023, 19:00

WASP Working Art Space and Production

The Art of Assembly XXV. Assemblies of Individuals. Live work in Non-Performance Spaces

Florian Malzacher, Mette Edvardsen & Tino Sehgal

16.11.2023, 18:00

MODUL Cărturești (Strada Academiei 18-20, București)

Florian Malzacher in conversation with Cristina Modreanu

The Art of Assembly Political Theatre Today – book presentation

November 16,17,18, 2023

14:00 – 19:00

Cărturești Carusel (Strada Lipscani 55, București)

Mette Edvardsen

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine

Titles:

Journal (1941-1942) – Etty Hillesum

Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi – Tatiana Țîbuleac

Hopscotch – Julio Cortázar

Einstein’s Dreams – Alan Lightman

Performers:

Adriana Gheorghe

Alice Monica Marinescu

Joana Ferraz

Tiziana Penna

Laboratory meetings at WASP Working Art Space and Production

November 14-15, 2023

Writings in Space and Time

Mette Edvardsen

November 16-17, 2023

Future Museums – practices on representation

Florian Malzacher

Mette Edvardsen (Norway)

Since 2002, Mette Edvardsen has been active as an independent artist. Although she explores multiple media or formats – such as video, books and texts – her interest lies in their relationship to the performing arts as a practice and situation. Whatever the medium, Mette Edvardsen constantly examines the limits of language, time, and space. Mette Edvardsen’s projects operate in an interim time and in an intermediate space. They are played in the interval, in the free space which appears between two words (Black, presented in 2014 at explore Bucharest Festival) or between a book and a listener (Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine). In her work, she uses repetition and multiplication as a strategy, as a way to make things visible, to activate them. Mette Edvardsen operates internationally. A retrospective overview of her work was presented in 2015 at the Black Box Theater in Oslo, Norway. The book “Every Now and Then” (2009) won the 2009 Fernand Baudin Prize, an award that demonstrates outstanding quality in both design (editorial and graphic) and production (printing and binding). In 2013, she was the chairman of the Fernand Baudin Award Jury and, together with graphic designer Joris Kritis, was responsible for the catalogue published on the occasion of that year’s awards ceremony. In 2016, Mette Edvardsen received the Norwegian Ibsen Award for her project “We to Be”, a prestigious award given annually since 1986 to a Norwegian playwright by the municipality of Skien (the birthplace of playwright Henrik Ibsen). Mette Edvardsen is currently researching at the Kunsthogskolen in Oslo (National Academy of Arts in Oslo). Her doctoral research project, “Writing in Space and Time”, explores text and language as a raw material for dance practice. She also regularly gives workshops, lectures and presentations at the Kunstakademiet i Tromso (Tromso Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing) (2010), among others; Luca School of Arts, Gent (2011); eXplore festival, Bucharest (2014); Reykjavik Dance Festival (2015) or Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2017).

Florian Malzacher (Germany)

Florian Malzacher is a curator, writer, and dramaturg. His current projects include Training for the Future (with Jonas Staal). He was artistic director of Impulse Theater Festival in Cologne, Dusseldorf, and Mulheim/Ruhr (2013-2017), and co-curator of the multidisciplinary arts festival steirischer herbst in Graz/Austria (2006-2012). Among his numerous publications are “Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics” (2014, with steirischer herbst); “Not Just a Mirror: Looking for the Political Theatre of Today” (2015); “Empty Stages, Crowded Flats: Performativity as Curatorial Strategy” (2017, with Joanna Warsza). His book “The Art of Assembly: Political Theatre Today” was published in English in 2023. His books and essays have been translated into fifteen languages.

Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal is an artist, dancer and choreographer. His work most commonly takes form in what he calls “constructed situations” activated time-based pieces that rely on the live encounters between spectators and those enacting the work. Sehgal’s work has been challenging the perception and conception of what are commonly framed as artworks, overcoming their materiality to focus on the fleeting gestures and social subtleties of shared experiences. Sehgal’s practice is informed by both his training as a dancer, subtly referencing the history of dance and, more broadly, of modern and contemporary art, and his education in economics, as his work is framed in a tight and elaborated critical and conceptual discourse that questions value, meaning, commodity and capital. Producing immaterial, ephemeral, reproducible but often unpredictable pieces, Sehgal’s works elude categorization and raise questions on the ecological impact of our current production systems, as well as on the relationship art holds with its market and agents

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About EXPLORING PLUREALITIES:

By implementing transdisciplinary activities in the field of contemporary performing and visual arts, the EXPLORING PLUREALITIES project aims to develop the audience and support contemporary art creators in Romania, in partnership with Norwegian artist Mette Edvardsen and in cooperation with Romanian and international artists and professionals. Creating a favorable framework for the development of art, through opportunities for professional evolution – job shadowing and mentoring, the project implemented by the 4Culture Association proposes a progressive approach, based on analysis and prospecting of innovative directions, by identifying and assuming hybrid artistic formats.

4Culture projects have a European dimension, the potential to multiply the results and a large public exposure. Through the PERSPECTIVES IN MOTION activity within the EXPLORING PLUREALITIES project, we propose two symposia and a digital platform, which will enable the resources of 4Culture and its partners and will ensure a dissemination of productions made for new audiences for contemporary performing arts – dance, performance, and visual arts (installations, new media projects and digital art).

Amount of non-reimbursable financing (85% EEA Grant and 15% national budget): 963,612 lei (195,288.49 euros)

Duration: 31 months

www.exploringplurealities.com

www.4culture.ro

www.metteedvardsen.be

Project financed by the EEA Grants 2014 – 2021 within the RO-CULTURE Program.

EEA grants represent the contribution of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to reducing economic and social disparities in Europe and strengthening bilateral relations between donor countries and 15 EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltic States.

The three donor countries are cooperating closely with the EU through the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement. The donors have provided € 3.3 billion through the consecutive grant scheme between 1994 and 2014. For the period 2014-2021, EEA grants amount to € 1.55 billion. More information on: www.eeagrants.org and www.eeagrants.ro

RO-CULTURE is implemented by the Ministry of Culture through the Project Management Unit and has as general objective the consolidation of economic and social development through cultural cooperation, cultural entrepreneurship and cultural heritage management. The budget of the Program is approximately 34 million euros. More details are available on www.ro-cultura.ro

Project promoter: ASOCIATIA 4 CULTURE

Project partner: METTE EDVARDSEN (Norway)

Partners of the Symposium EXPLORING PLUREALITIES #1: Cărturești Verona, WASP Working Art Space and Production.

Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Modernism, Revista Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă

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Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine (Mette Edvardsen) http://waspmagazine.com/en/time-has-fallen-asleep-in-the-afternoon-sunshine-mette-edvardsen-2/ http://waspmagazine.com/en/time-has-fallen-asleep-in-the-afternoon-sunshine-mette-edvardsen-2/#comments Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:13:29 +0000 admin http://waspmagazine.com/?p=7568 ...]]> Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine (Mette Edvardsen)
November 16, 17, 18 / 14:00-19:00
Free entrance
Reservations: communication@4culture.ro/ https://shorturl.at/fhO68

For Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine a group of people/ performers memorize a book of their choice. Together they form a library collection consisting of living books. The books are passing their time in a library, walking around, talking together, reading in paper-books from the shelves, ready to be consulted by a visitor. The visitors of the library choose a book they would like to read, and the book brings its reader to a place in the library or for a walk outside, while reciting its content (and possibly valid interpretations).
The idea for this library of living books comes from Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, a future vision of a society where books are forbidden because they are considered dangerous, and that happiness must be obtained through an absence of knowledge and individual thought. The number 451 refers to the temperature at which book paper starts to burn. As books are forbidden in this society, an underground community of people learn books by heart in order to preserve them for the future.
Books are read to remember and written to forget. To memorize a book, or more poetically ‘to learn a book by heart’, is in a way a rewriting of that book. In the process of memorizing, the reader for a moment steps into the place of the writer, or rather he / she is becoming the book. Maybe the ability to learn a whole book by heart is relative to what book you choose, the time you invest, and perhaps your skills. But, however much or well you learn something by heart you have to keep practicing it, otherwise you will forget it again. Perhaps by the time you reach the end you will have forgotten the beginning. Learning a book by heart is an ongoing activity and doing. There is nothing final or material to achieve, the practice of learning a book by heart is a continuous process of remembering and forgetting.
Titles:
Jurnal (1941-1942) – Etty Hillesum
Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi – Tatiana Țîbuleac
Hopscotch – Julio Cortázar
Einstein’s Dreams – Alan Lightman
Performers:
Adriana Gheorghe
Alice Monica Marinescu
Joana Ferraz
Tiziana Penna
The work of Mette Edvardsen is situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media or other formats, such as video, books and writing, her interest is always in their relationship to the performing arts as a practice and a situation. She has worked since 1994 as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects, and has been developing her own work since 2002. She presents her works internationally and continues to develop projects with other artists, both as a collaborator and as a performer. A retrospective of her work was presented at Black Box theatre in Oslo in 2015, and the focus program Idiorritmias at MACBA in Barcelona in 2018. Her project Time has fallen alseep in the afternoon sunshine is ongoing since 2010, presented twice at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in 2013 & 2017, Sydney Biennale in 2016, Index Foundation in Stockholm in 2019, Oslobiennalen First Edition in 2019-2020, Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun Arts in Hong Kong in 2021, São Paulo Biennale 2021. She will bring several pieces to Amant in New York in 2022, and develop a project in residence at Les Laboratoires des Aubervilliers in Paris 2022/ 2023.
Mette Edvardsen is structurally supported by Norsk Kulturråd (2021 – 2025), BUDA Arts Centre Kortrijk (2017 – 2021) and she is associated artist at centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie (France) for the period 2019 – 2021. She is currently finalizing her research as a Phd candidate at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Event organized within EXPLORING PLUREALITIES Symposium #2, which brings together artists with inclusive contemporary visions at an artistic, political and socio-cultural level, multidisciplinary creators and current topics at a local and European level. Developing the ideal framework for an increased exposure and visibility and aiming at audience development through new formats and exhibition spaces for contemporary artistic creations, 4Culture aims to connect the participants involved in the project and activate new audiences.
During the symposium, a round table will be organized with the participating artists, partners and media representatives, two ‘artist talk’ meetings that will introduce the public to the practices addressed by the guest artists: the relationship between word, memory and body – recurring themes in the creation of the artist Mette Edvardsen (Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine) and the relationship between the performing arts and new media technologies, with Ciprian Făcăeru and Andrei Raicu, the coordinators of laboratory #2 – New technologies and young audiences, respectively of the Transsystemic Signals 2.0 installation.
The symposium will host the production “Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine” by Mette Edvardsen, in a new version that includes participants from Romania, as well as the installation Transsystemic Signals 2.0 resulting from laboratory#2 – New technologies and young audiences, coordinators Ciprian Făcăeru (AR researcher) and Andrei Raicu (sound artist).
Curator: Andreea Căpitănescu
About EXPLORING PLUREALITIES:
By implementing transdisciplinary activities in the field of contemporary performing and visual arts, the EXPLORING PLUREALITIES project aims to develop the audience and support contemporary art creators in Romania, in partnership with Norwegian artist Mette Edvardsen and in cooperation with Romanian and international artists and professionals. Creating a favorable framework for the development of art, through opportunities for professional evolution – job shadowing and mentoring, the project implemented by the 4Culture Association proposes a progressive approach, based on analysis and prospecting of innovative directions, by identifying and assuming hybrid artistic formats.
4Culture projects have a European dimension, the potential to multiply the results and a large public exposure. Through the PERSPECTIVES IN MOTION activity within the EXPLORING PLUREALITIES project, we propose two symposia and a digital platform, which will enable the resources of 4Culture and its partners and will ensure a dissemination of productions made for new audiences for contemporary performing arts – dance, performance, and visual arts (installations, new media projects and digital art).
Amount of non-reimbursable financing (85% EEA Grant and 15% national budget): 963,612 lei (195,288.49 euros)
Duration: 31 months
www.exploringplurealities.com
www.4culture.ro
www.metteedvardsen.be
Project financed by the EEA Grants 2014 – 2021 within the RO-CULTURE Program.
EEA grants represent the contribution of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to reducing economic and social disparities in Europe and strengthening bilateral relations between donor countries and 15 EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltic States.
The three donor countries are cooperating closely with the EU through the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement. The donors have provided € 3.3 billion through the consecutive grant scheme between 1994 and 2014. For the period 2014-2021, EEA grants amount to € 1.55 billion. More information on: www.eeagrants.org and www.eeagrants.ro
RO-CULTURE is implemented by the Ministry of Culture through the Project Management Unit and has as general objective the consolidation of economic and social development through cultural cooperation, cultural entrepreneurship and cultural heritage management. The budget of the Program is approximately 34 million euros. More details are available on www.ro-cultura.ro
Project promoter: ASOCIATIA 4 CULTURE
Project partner: METTE EDVARDSEN (Norway)
Partners of the Symposium#2 EXPLORING PLUREALITIES: Cărturești Carusel, WASP Working Art Space and Production.
Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Modernism, Revista Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă
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Florian Malzacher – The Art of Assembly. Political Theatre Today. Book presentation http://waspmagazine.com/en/florian-malzacher-the-art-of-assembly-political-theatre-today-prezentare-de-carte/ http://waspmagazine.com/en/florian-malzacher-the-art-of-assembly-political-theatre-today-prezentare-de-carte/#comments Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:06:48 +0000 admin http://waspmagazine.com/?p=7562 ...]]> Reservations: eventbrite/email coordination@4culture.ro

This event is organized by 4Culture within the Exploring Plurealities Symposium #2
Join us for a Book talk with author and curator Florian Malzacher in a conversation with the theatre critic Cristina Modreanu to discuss political theatre today.
The Art of Assembly surveys theatre today to demonstrate its political potential in both form and content. Drawing on numerous examples from around the world in performance, visual arts, and activist art, curator and author Florian Malzacher examines works that draw on the particular possibilities of theatre to navigate the space between representation and participation, at once playfully and with sincerity. In a time of wide-ranging crisis, The Art of Assembly is a plea for a strong definition of the political and for a theatre that is not content merely to reflect the world’s ills, but instead acts to change them.
Florian Malzacher
Florian Malzacher is a curator, writer, and dramaturg. His current projects include Training for the Future (with Jonas Staal). He was artistic director of Impulse Theater Festival in Cologne, Dusseldorf, and Mulheim/Ruhr (2013-2017), and co-curator of the multidisciplinary arts festival steirischer herbst in Graz/Austria (2006-2012). Among his numerous publications are “Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics” (2014, with steirischer herbst); “Not Just a Mirror: Looking for the Political Theatre of Today” (2015); “Empty Stages, Crowded Flats: Performativity as Curatorial Strategy” (2017, with Joanna Warsza). His book “The Art of Assembly: Political Theatre Today” was published in English in 2023. His books and essays have been translated into fifteen languages.
About EXPLORING PLUREALITIES:
By implementing transdisciplinary activities in the field of contemporary performing and visual arts, the EXPLORING PLUREALITIES project aims to develop the audience and support contemporary art creators in Romania, in partnership with Norwegian artist Mette Edvardsen and in cooperation with Romanian and international artists and professionals. Creating a favorable framework for the development of art, through opportunities for professional evolution – job shadowing and mentoring, the project implemented by the 4Culture Association proposes a progressive approach, based on analysis and prospecting of innovative directions, by identifying and assuming hybrid artistic formats.
4Culture projects have a European dimension, the potential to multiply the results and a large public exposure. Through the PERSPECTIVES IN MOTION activity within the EXPLORING PLUREALITIES project, we propose two symposia and a digital platform, which will enable the resources of 4Culture and its partners and will ensure a dissemination of productions made for new audiences for contemporary performing arts – dance, performance, and visual arts (installations, new media projects and digital art).
Amount of non-reimbursable financing (85% EEA Grant and 15% national budget): 963,612 lei (195,288.49 euros)
Duration: 31 months
www.exploringplurealities.com
www.4culture.ro
www.metteedvardsen.be
Project financed by the EEA Grants 2014 – 2021 within the RO-CULTURE Program.
EEA grants represent the contribution of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to reducing economic and social disparities in Europe and strengthening bilateral relations between donor countries and 15 EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltic States.
The three donor countries are cooperating closely with the EU through the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement. The donors have provided € 3.3 billion through the consecutive grant scheme between 1994 and 2014. For the period 2014-2021, EEA grants amount to € 1.55 billion. More information on: www.eeagrants.org and www.eeagrants.ro
RO-CULTURE is implemented by the Ministry of Culture through the Project Management Unit and has as general objective the consolidation of economic and social development through cultural cooperation, cultural entrepreneurship and cultural heritage management. The budget of the Program is approximately 34 million euros. More details are available on www.ro-cultura.ro
Project promoter: ASOCIATIA 4 CULTURE
Project partner: METTE EDVARDSEN (Norway)
Partners of the Symposium EXPLORING PLUREALITIES #1: Cărturești Verona, WASP Working Art Space and Production.
Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Modernism, Revista Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă
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Diorama|Performance by Ingri Fiksdal http://waspmagazine.com/en/dioramaperformance-in-fata-bibliotecii-nationale-a-romaniei/ http://waspmagazine.com/en/dioramaperformance-in-fata-bibliotecii-nationale-a-romaniei/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:00:12 +0000 admin http://waspmagazine.com/?p=7512 ...]]> Performance by Ingri Fiksdal
Location: National Library of Romania
Date: 28 & 29 October 2023
Time: 5pm
Free entrance

WASP Studios presents for the first time in Bucharest, DIORAMA, a performance coordinated by the Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse Foundation, following a workshop with Romanian and Norwegian dancers, organized at WASP Working Art Space and Production
The event is organized in the frame of EMERGING TOWARDS (FUTURE), by WASP Studios, in partnership with Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse.
With the Diorama performance series, particular views of natural and urban landscapes in various cities and contexts are “staged”. The word diorama means through that which is seen, from the Greek di- (through) + orama (that which is seen, a sight). Diorama often refers to a three-dimensional model of a landscape, such as those displayed in museums of natural history. Another use of the word is for the French diorama theatre invented by Louis Daguerre in 1822, where the audience were sat watching large landscape paintings transform through skilfully manipulated light. Later, sound effects and live performers were added to the images. In the Diorama performances, Fiksdal uses choreography as a lens, through which she alters or interferes with a particular view and its context. The performances reflect on the passing of time, on the slow change in landscape, and scenography as an ecological practice of bodies both human and non-human.Through scenography as an ecological practice and particular intervention, DIORAMA shows reflect on the connection and interdependence between the human body and the urban landscape. The music is composed by the Norwegian musician Jenny Hval and the artist Lasse Marhaug, the composition being thought to creep into the landscape.
INGRI Midgard FIKSDAL is a choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. She holds a PhD in artistic research from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts titled ‘Affective Choreographies’ (2019). Ingri’s work on affect has in recent years taken her into discourses on perspective and privilege. She is currently working on a number of projects that research the posthuman and with this hegemonies of knowledge and power. Here, choreography is understood as a format of speculative fiction that can propose complex and manyfold understandings of body, gender, species, ethnicity, knowledge and history. Ingri is concerned with how practice and theory are entangled in her work in a way where neither is perceived as anterior to the other. Since 2020, Ingri has been an Affiliated Artistic Researcher with CoFUTURES at the University of Oslo (www.cofutures.org). The CoFUTURES group led by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay researches global futurisms from non-anglophone traditions. Ingri’s work has in recent years been performed at Obscene Festival in Seoul, Homo Novus in Riga, Kunstenfestival in Brussels, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Santarcangelo festival, Beijing Contemporary Dance Festival, Sommerszene in Salzburg, Reykjavík Art Museum, brut-Wien, Teatro di Roma, Harbourfront Centre Toronto, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, BUDA Kortrijk, Tanzhaus NRW in Dusseldorf and Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, alongside extensive touring in Norway. Ingri´s work is supported by Fri scenekunst – kunstnerskap from Arts and Culture Norway. More info here: https://ingrifiksdal.com/
Credits:
Concept, choreography: Ingri Fiksdal
Music: Jenny Hval and Lasse Marhaug
Costumes: Fredrik Floen
Developed and performed by: Rannei Grenne, Pernille Holden, Harald Beharie, Louis Schou-Hansens and Jeffrey Young
Outside eye: Venke Sortland
Photo: PASSAGE Festival by Karsten Piper, Owen Fiene, Briony Campbell, Istvan Virag, depARTures Festival / JOINT ADVENTURES by Michael Reinecke
Production and distribution: Nicole Schuchardt
Production and administration: Eva Grainger and Kristin Skiftun
Originally commissioned by: Situations
Produced by: Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse
Co-produced by: Black Box Teater Oslo, BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen, Dansens Hus Oslo, Santarcangelo Festival and ”apap-Performing Europe 2020 – co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union”
Supported by: The Norwegian Art Council and the Norwegian Artistic Research Program.
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Events organized as part of the Emerging Towards (Future) project, situated at the convergence of art, ecology, and architecture. Through contemporary art and its related fields, the project highlights the need for collaborative, intergenerational, and trans-sectoral actions in research, production, and dissemination processes, adapted to both current and future contexts.
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Project promoter: WASP STUDIOS
Project partners: Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse, Cristian Ștefănescu Architect ( a-works)
Total project value: 978.118,21 lei (197.675,51 euro)
Amount of non-reimbursable funding (85% EEA grant and 15% national budget): 978.118,21 lei (197.675,51 euro)
Duration: 18 months
Location of implementation: Bucharest (Romania) and Bergen (Norway)
This project is financed with the support of EEA Grants 2014-2021 within the RO-CULTURE Programme.
The EEA Grants represent the contribution of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway towards a green, competitive and inclusive Europe. There are two overall objectives: reduction of economic and social disparities in Europe, and to strengthen bilateral relations between the donor countries and 15 EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltics. The three donor countries cooperate closely with the EU through the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). The donors have provided €3.3 billion through consecutive grant schemes between 1994 and 2014. For the period 2014-2021, the EEA Grants amount to €1.55 billion. More details are available on: www.eeagrants.org and www.eeagrants.ro.
RO-CULTURE is implemented in Romania by the Ministry of Culture through the Project Management Unit. The Programme aims at strengthening social and economic development through cultural cooperation, cultural entrepreneurship and cultural heritage management. The total budget amounts to almost 34 million EUR. For more details access: www.ro-cultura.ro.
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(Ro) ARTLAND ACADEMY – Digitalul în lumea adolescenților http://waspmagazine.com/en/artland-academy-digitalul-in-lumea-adolescentilor/ http://waspmagazine.com/en/artland-academy-digitalul-in-lumea-adolescentilor/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:45:33 +0000 admin http://waspmagazine.com/?p=7523 Sorry, this entry is only available in Ro.

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(Ro) DIORAMA – OPEN CALL for moving sculptures http://waspmagazine.com/en/diorama-open-call-for-moving-sculptures/ http://waspmagazine.com/en/diorama-open-call-for-moving-sculptures/#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:46:25 +0000 admin http://waspmagazine.com/?p=7506 Sorry, this entry is only available in Ro.

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Co-Creating our environment http://waspmagazine.com/en/co-creating-our-environment/ http://waspmagazine.com/en/co-creating-our-environment/#comments Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:01:58 +0000 admin http://waspmagazine.com/?p=7558 ...]]> On Thursday, 4 October 2023, at 7:00 PM, Wasp Studios invites you to the opening of the Co-Creating our environment exhibition, which will take place at Bastion 2 ( Timișoara, Hector Street, no.1).

Artists:
Marilena Preda Sânc
Liliana Mercioiu Popa
Mălina Ionescu
13m10j
Natalia Silaghi
Andreea Medar
Maria Calotă
Mihai Toth
Curator:
Andreea Căpitănescu
Maria Oroșan Telea
Man is not the measure of all things. This is the premise on which the artists’ research is based. The exhibition proposes directions and formulas for a sustainable future, for a non-invasive and non-aggressive coexistence in society through harmony with the environment. The works are a development tool for inclusion and community processes, a metaphor marked by human egocentrism and its inability to interact, an aspect which unfolds over into other realms.
The exhibition Co-Creating our environment can be can be visited from Monday to Friday between 16:00 and 20:00, between 4 and 25 October
*The exhibition is co-hosted by ”Celebrating Trouble. Choreographic Convention” project, dedicated to performance and multidisciplinary arts. Between October 4th-8th 2023, in Timișoara, will take place dance and performance shows, exhibitions and panel discussions, held by international artists. For more details about the program, click here: https://fb.me/e/3UkbtwhFl
„Celebrating Trouble. Choreographic Convention” is organized and curated by: 4Culture Association, in collaboration with DanceWeb.
Media partners: Radio Guerrilla, Modernism, Revista Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă, Revista Golan, Empower Art&Artists, Ziarul Metropolis, Happ.ro, Radio România Cultural
* This cultural project is co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN).
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the way that the results of the project can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the financing.
*The project is part of the national program “Timișoara – 2023 European Capital of Culture” and is financed through the European Echoes program, run by Timișoara Project Center, with funds allocated from the state budget, through the Ministry of Culture.
Part of the European cooperation project Life Long Burning (LLB) – Futures Lost and Found (2023-2026), funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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