Flowing Streams Residency
at The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
15 June – 15 July 2024
Václav Šana (The Czech Republic) has been selected to join Flowing Streams, a multi-residency project in rural areas of Romania exploring local approaches to the cultural ecology of water, organized by EUNIC Romania in collaboration with curator Adelina Luft.
At The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life at Silistea Snagovului, Václav will document and evaluate pre-selected sites from the vicinity of The Station, including Lake Snagov and other sources of ground water. He will look at the scale, social, cultural and environmental aspects of the water sources to develop an analytical documentation of the water channels through diagrams and drawings.
Václav Šana is an architect, urban planner and researcher. He graduated in architecture and urbanism at the technical university VUT Brno. He is currently working on a PhD thesis in the urbanism department at the same faculty, focusing on water areas as potential for city/village activities. Outside of practice and school, Václav takes various initiatives to popularize urbanism through lectures and workshops. As part of his doctoral studies, he led seminars to students on the topic of water bodies in the context of urbanism, collaboratively developing projects supported by research on water bodies in the context of scale, political directions, and different social and material contexts.
The Residency is supported by EUNIC Romania in collaboration with Institute of Arts –Theatre Institute, Czech Centres and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
Flowing Streams is a project of 7 residencies in rural Romania exploring local approaches to the cultural ecology of water, designed and developed by EUNIC Romania. The project involves seven cultural institutes operating in Romania: British Council, Czech Centers, Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, Goethe-Institute, The Italian Institute of Culture, The Polish Institute and Fundatia 9, each supporting one residency.
The residency at The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life at Silistea Snagovului is organized in the frame of the project ABC – Architecture, Biodiversity, Culture. Building ecological institutions for culture. ABC is co-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 EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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