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Matei Bejenaru

Found Footage // Stefan Rusu

Matei Bejenaru

We are happy to welcome you at a meeting with Matei Bejenaru and his projects Friday, the 14th March 6 pm, at Carturesti bookstore!

We will discuss about "Situatii", most recent book published about Matei Bejenaru's projects and events and also about "Together/Impreuna", the film the artist made last fall at Tate Modern Level 2 Gallery, during a residency in London.

"Together/ Impreuna" opened the series of his performances at Tate Modern Level 2 Gallery. On September 2nd, in front of the Tate Modern Gallery, the project brought together more than 200 Romanians living in the UK. The action represented the topic of a film projected at Level 2 Gallery on September 8th and 9th. The film is presented these days also in Galeria Posibila (until Sunday, the 16 March, between 2 and 7 pm).

"The Romanian-English title is not a translation, but a symbol of the new reality of the Romanian Londoners. Ordinary people, like us and like you, gathered together by Matei for a breathing exercise in front of the Tate Modern Museum. Approximately 200 Romanians introduce themselves, and through this simple, honest gesture of admitting that they are Romanians, they become British at the same time, integrated into the natural, sharing the same small joys and euphoric ideals as the other subjects of Her Majesty." Matei Caltia

The work completes a wider project of the artist, called Travelling Guide, which contains information about the illegal Romanian emigrants in Western Europe before European accession. Thus, Matei Bejenaru’s project refers again to the idea of identity. This time, it’s the identity of those who search for their identity, by legal means, in other parts than that of their origin.

Found Footage follows in April

The Found Footage compilation represents a series of short films produced by the participants in the workshop who were guided by the critical spirit engaged towards the current situation of post-soviet societies (from the area of the former USSR) and post-socialist societies (the Balkans).

The artists aimed in their films to convey these ideas by using the means of cinematographic aesthetics and digital technology, exploring and commenting on the phenomenon experienced by the societies that moved from a discouraging system (of socialist type) and replaced it with another one (of neo-liberal type).

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Found Footage was initiated by the artist and curator Stefan Rusu, in collaboration with the media artist John Davis (San Francisco, USA) and was developed with the contribution of Joanne Richardson (Cluj, Romania) – media theoretician, video artist and coordinator of D-Media and Kathrin Becker (Berlin, Germany) – arts historian, curator and director of NBK Video Forum.

Participating artists:
Andreea Cârnu/Romania, Victor Ciobanu/Moldova, Veaceslav DruĹŁÄ&Tatiana Nastasiu/Moldova, Zoran Djurkovic/Serbia, Alina Popa&Olivia MihÄlĹŁianu/Romania, Lavinia German/Romania, Maxim Kuzmenko/Moldova, Milena Putnik/Serbia, Liviu Pop/Romania, Ghenadie Popescu/Moldova, Alexandru Raevski/Moldova, Tatiana Fiodorova /Moldova, Vadim Ĺ˘iganaĹź/Moldova

Found Footage was produced in 2007 by KSAK - Contemporary Art Centre, Chisinau (www.art.md) in partnership with D-Media Association, Romania (http://www.dmedia.ro) and NBK Video Forum, Germany (http://www.nbk.org/video-f.html) with the financial support from ECF, Amsterdam, the USA Embassy in Chisinau and Arts College A.PlÄmÄdealÄ /Chisinau.

The project will be presentd in Galeria Posibila in first half of April.

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