INVITATION

[MNAC]

The National Museum of Contemporary Art / Kalinderu MediaLab have the pleasure to invite you on Friday, 12 December, 07.00 p.m., str. Vasile Sion 2-4 at the opening of the exhibition

 

Calin Dan - Emotional Architecture

Curator Raluca Velisar 

 

The exhibition will close on 24 January 2004

 

Event organised with the support of: The Romanian Ministry of Culture and Reliogious Communities, Pro Helvetia, Bucharest; Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam; the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture; BAK (Basis voor Aktuele Kunst), Utrecht; European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam; ICCA (International Centre for Contemporary Art) Bucharest; Artexpo, Bucharest, Giotto Advertising, Philips.

 

12-13.12.2003  Connected event: Short  Breath - Experiencing Architecture in Times of Displacemnts,  Symposium organized by ICCA, with the support of The Royal Embassy of the Netherlands in Romania

Participants: Ruxandra Balaci, Koos Bosma, Ole Bouman, Mariana Celac, Teoedor Frolu, Stefan Ghenciulescu, Cosmin Gradinaru, Iosif Kiraly, Vera Marin, Mihai Oroveanu, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Wouter van Stiphout, Florin Tudor, Mona Vatamanu, Vladimir Vinea, Martien de Vletter. 

12.12.03 through Bucharest; 13.12.03, 10.00 a.m. - 06.00 p.m.  Intrarea Soarelui nr. 1.

 

For more information on www.mnac.ro

 



Emotional Architecture is a conceptual territory whose limits and co-ordinates should be defined with intuitive methods. The content that can be dumped in this area is free of any limitations but one: it should deal in a direct or subtler manner with the ontological tensions between humans and their habitat. This topical vagueness gets permanently structured through the spontaneous clustering of tendencies and influences characterising the post-traditional social bodies 

The stance "emotional" indicates though a certain positioning into the field of culture - within the realm of pathology. While emotions are a natural manifestation of (as far as we can speculate) all living creatures, an emotional state implies - in the contemporary idiom - a situation that went out of balance, a desequilibrium. Adopting this state of mind in defining our relation with the habitat might lead to pessimism, to speculation or to therapy. In order to avoid such sterile outcome, Emotional Architecture should be always brought into debate with a pluri-disciplinary humbleness. Considering at all times that one trade's commons are another trade's revelations, people could use the EmAr research as an exercise for mobility. 

 

SampleCity, 2003, delivered both as a 4-channel video-installation (4 x 12') and as mega-video clip meant for TV broadcast.

The film is exploring the textual/human/architectural strata of the Bucharest cityscape, using as a guiding agent the post-modern impersonation of a character from an old Romanian folk tale. The sound track is a mix of reality samples with an edited version of "manele" - a new and trendy local music combining Romanian, Gypsy and Oriental folklore influences with hip-hop and drum-'n-base.

 

RA (Romania, 2000, 57 min, color, mono, English subtitles)

The footage was created in 1994, on the occasion of an exhibition meant to support community-oriented projects in the Romanian art world. The outcome was a film showing how a country with a complex history, social structure and cultural heritage is struggling with both the forces of globalization and a long totalitarian experience.

 

sony/wmf/pp  (Nederland 2003, video, 3 min 30, color, mono)

The video belongs to a series of events dealing with the under stream of shaman residues running through various manifestations of the Western civilization. The title refers to the branded props used in the performance (Sonny camera/WMF pans and cutlery) and implies that even a trivial "product placement" (PP) can be converted into a spiritual experience. 

 

Lost Toys - House of the Shaman 2  (Nederland 2001, three channels video installation, 3'30" x 3, color, mono)

Lost Toys is a random database of images coming from various content pools (art history, military history, anatomy, biology, architecture, history of science). The source material was extracted from printed media and processed into short animation clips according to a simple set of rules. Those rules are meant to displace the original significance of the icons - apparently based on the rational viewpoint of the Western culture - into a ground of playfulness and spontaneity. 

 

Knots & Keywords - data base of photographic images generated by those who travel(led) and/or inhabit(ed) the city at a certain point in time, and felt the urge to use their camera in order to capture this encounter.

 

 

 

Calin Dan is a multimedia artist, curator and art critic, based in Amsterdam since 1995.

Between 1990-1994 he is the  Chief Editor of  "ARTa" magazine; 1992 - 1995 Artistic Director of the Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bucharest; 1991 - 1995 Lecturer  at Art Academy, Bucharest; 2001 - 2004 Advisor the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Art, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB). He is the curator of the Romanian participation at The 3rd International Biennial, Istanbul (1992), The European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (1993), The Saõ Paulo Biennial (1994).

In 1990 he establishes with Dan Mihaltianu subREAL group, Iosif Király joining it immediately after. Dan Mihaltianu opted out, concentrating on an independent career. 

 

Selected exhibitions: 

1992 Migrations, The 2nd Istanbul Biennial 

1993 Venice Biennial, Aperto 

1995 The Art History Archive, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

OSTranenie - Videoforum, Bauhaus Dessau 

Beyond Belief, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 

1996 Dataroom, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein 

Manifesta 1, Kunsthal Rotterdam (c)

1998 Serving Art, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 
1999 Serving Art, Venice Biennial, Romanian pavilion 

Happy Doomsday!, ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie), Karlsruhe, Germany 

Synworld, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna 

After The Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

2001 Interviewing The Cities, International Center for Contemporary Art (ICCA), Bucuresti, Fotogalerie, Wien, Vox Gallery, Montreal

2000 unlimited.nl 3, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam

Happy Doomsday!, Rotterdam Film Festival, V2_Rotterdam 

L'autre moitié de l'Europe, Galérie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris 

2000 +. Arteast Collection, Moderna Galerja, Ljubljana

After The Wall, Ludwig Museum, Budapest

2002 Interviewing The Cities, IASPIS gallery, Stockholm

2001 Venice Biennial, Romanian pavilion 
2000 +. Arteast Collection, ZKM, Karlsruhe 

2002 In Search of Balkania, Neue Gallerie, Graz 

2003 Blood and Honey, Sammlung Essl - Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna, etc. 
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