Stefan Rusu on Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:17:05 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-ro] UFO CONVENTION |
Dear colleagues and friends, Please find below the short description of the international project UFO CONVENTION, which is going to be held in Rep. of Moldova, in April 05-08, 2001. We would like to ask you to distribute this information to your colleagues, friends, artists, theoreticians, UFO - researchers and scientists, writers and poets who might be interested in taking part in it. We would be glad to receive names, brief artistic biography of artists, theoreticians, UFO - researchers and scientists, writers and poets who are interested to participate in this project, as well, a brief idea/project concerning the work which is going to be done here. All information should be sent by fax or e-mail to the Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau as soon as possible, but not later than by Wednesday, March 20, 2002. For additional information, please, don't hesitate to contact us. Proiect: UFO CONVENTION Period: April 05-08, 2002 Synopsis: The project UFO CONVENTION will include a number of events related to the point at which Contemporary Art crosses the UFO phenomena. The CONVENTION's agenda will call for a discussion of UFO and anomaly phenomena, which took place in various forms and aspects in the cultural and social-politic context of the Republic of Moldova. These phenomena will be analyzed and commented on in connection with the presence of Contemporary Art as an intruder phenomenon in our cultural space. In the course of four days the following events will take place consecutively: conference featuring UFO-logists, an exhibition by a group of artists from The Netherlands, Moldova, Romania, Poland, Russia, France, Great Britain, who will exhibit a series of installations featuring recent experiments in the area of sound and digital image interference; followed by video presentations by participants from Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Moldova, France, Great Britain, and, finally, each of these days will end with VJ - DJ shows by Russian and Polish artists, and "Nuclear Los' " band from Russia. The entire project will culminate in a publication accompanied by a CD, which will contain the pieces presented in the section featuring sound experiment. Organizer: Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana, Chisinau Str. Puschin 16, Chisinau, Republica Moldova Pone: +37 32 212766 Fax: +373 2 212768 Email: ksak.info@mail.md Curator: Stefan Rusu Email: rusu@art.md , winypuh@yahoo.com Pone: + 373 2 212766 Locations: Military Palace, str. Tighina, or. Chisinau, Exhibition complex UAP "C.Brancusi", Chisinau Partners: 1. SOROS Foundation, Moldova 2. Aliance Francais, Moldova 3. The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Moldova Financiers: 1. USA Embassy, Chisinau, Moldova 2. French Embassy, Chisinau, Moldova 3. The Netherlands Embassy, Kiev, Ukraine 4. "I. Kondratiuc" Foundation, Russia 5. "Ford" Foundation, Russia Sponsors: 1. UAP Gallery "Constantin Brancusi", Chisinau 2. Cinema theater "Odeon", Chisinau 3. Club "la Victor", Chisinau Project's description: CONVENTION is going to be preceded by the press-conference where is going to be announced goals, objectives, participants and event's program. Informational support - INFOTAG Agency. UFO CONVENTION is going to be held during four days in the period of April 05-08, 2002, the program will be structured in four sections: 1.Conference's program will include the communications of experts in UFO-logy from: Moldova, Russia, Ukraine and Romania. The subject of the speech will be based on the investigation and research of the UFO and the paranormal and anomaly phenomenon, those are going to be analyzed concerning psychics anomaly, commented by specialists in the psychiatry (alienists) field. The above mentioned presentations and debates are going to be intercalated by the subject of the presence of Contemporary Art. Conference will run between 12.00-15.00 PM, the presentations will be held at the Military Palace, str. Tighina, or. Chisinau. 2.In exhibition's frames are going to be held actions, performances and installations which regards to the sound and digital image interference, with participants from Moldova, Poland, Russia, Holland, United Kingdom, that will start at 4 PM in the exhibition hall "Constantin Brancusi" or. Chisinau. 3.Program of video projections with participants from Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, France and a special program with participants from Great Britain, Japan and USA that will start at 6:00 PM at Odeon theatre. 4.Day's program will end with the presentation of DJ/VJ from Poland, Russia, starting at 9 PM in the dance club "La Victor", or Chisinau Stefan Rusu,UFO Convention curator -- mailto:rusu@art.md _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list Nettime-ro@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/