I, the city
Screening of videoworks from Iasi and the region (1994-2024)
Starting at 8 p.m. on the 1st of August 2024, (public event)
tranzit.ro/ Iasi,
Address: GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
The Museum of Real Estate Development invited us to imagine ourselves in the future, in a museum space where the public can see the material traces of real estate development from the beginning of the third millennium in several cities of the world. This exercise of imagination (the detachment from the present) aimed to allow us a critical position towards the phenomenon studied as part of contemporary capitalism. Real estate development was not seen as a finished process, but as an all-pervasive phenomenon that continued to be perpetuated and reinvented, and the cutting of spatio-temporal manifestations of this process turned them into targets of the social-political-cultural critique.
Such moments of attempted critique are also represented by the selected video materials that were produced during the last 3 decades (1994-2024) in Iasi or in the region.
At one level of analysis - that was many times erroneously identified as the city - we can observe in these video productions how the political-economic and social transformations of the last 3 decades have often become objects of artistic and intellectual critical reflection. At different levels of analysis, during the same period of time, we also uncritically experienced paradigmatic shifts in the domain of cultural production itself, the purpose of which was constantly re-calibrated aiming at the emergence and solidification of individual subjectivities that speak for and on behalf of the entire society.
Curated by Florin Bobu & Livia Pancu
Section I (projection):
Matei Bejenaru, Alexandru cel Bun, 1994-2003, 10 min. 16 sec, 2003, Dan Acostioaei, Dragos Alexandrescu, Bahlui by Night, 2 min, 2004, Dan Acostioaei, Reconstruction Scapes, 14 min 50 sec, 2005, Andreea Faciu, Touching the City no. 1 (Iasi, RO) 13 min 25 sec, 2007/2008, Cezar Lăzărescu, ȚESĂTURA IAȘI, 00:59, 2012, Vladimir Us, Marșul (The March), 4 min. 29 sec, 2012, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Prosper Center AW16, 8 min. 26 sec, 2016, Cezar Lăzărescu, ȚESĂTURA IAȘI vs. LIDL, 01:01, 2017, s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu) Video Monuments, part 1 (Mitriță & Silvia sr.), documentary, 21 min. 01 sec., 2018, s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu), Video Monuments, part 2 (Doru), documentary, 15 min. 30 sec., 2018, Andrei Timofte, Arhitectură-mobilă (Fluid Architecture), 10 min 25 sec., 2019, Andreea Cioară, LC Waikiki, 2 min 17 sec, 2019, Sit Vertical (Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu), Silk District, 4 min 14 sec, 2021, Cătălin Gheorghe, Fragments of a walk through time. A public walk with Florin Bobu and Cătălin Gheorghe, video, 7 min., 14 sec., 2021, Sarah Muscalu, Monument pentru memoria viitoare II / Monuments for future memory II, 5 min 29 sec, 2023, Drazen Crnomat, Kiew, video, 1 min. 29 sec., 2024.
Section II (archive):
s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu), Reheating the industry in transition, 14 min 54 sec., 2012, Oberliht Association (Vladimir Us, Ina Ivanceanu, Vahe Budumyan, Gaëlle Mege), Chișinău Civic Center – beyond the red lines, video documentation, 55 min 23 sec, 2013-2014, Florin Bobu, Vacanțe exotice în inima orașului(Exotic Holidays in the Heart of the City), video, 25 min 29 sec, 2016, Andrea Faciu, Touching the City no.3 (Limerick, IE), 28 min. 00 sec, 2009/2010, Andrea Faciu, Touching the City no.2 (Firenze, IT), 25 min. 00 sec, 2007/2010.
I, the city. Screening of videoworks from Iasi and the region (1994-2024) is realised in the frame of Museum of Real Estate Development project.
The project is organized by tranzit.ro/ Iasi and 1+1 (Iași) in partnership of Oberliht Association (Chisinau), Fundația Desire (Cluj-Napoca), Asociația Quantic (București) and National University of Arts George Enescu (Iași). This is a cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. (AFCN). This 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 how project results can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit.ro.
