Artists: Anca Boeriu, Alexandru Cînean, Cosmin Paulescu
A visual installation derived from the audio performance/app THE WALKS by the renowned theatre collective Rimini Protokoll from Berlin, in co-production with creart/TEATRELLI and in partnership with Goethe-Institut Bucharest.
Curators: Roxana Lăpădat, Andreea Sandu
Photo artists – THE WALKS installation
Timișoara: Andreea Băban, Ioana Cionte, Felix Cionte, Peter Horațiu, Timotei Hotea, Loredana Ilie Georgiana Șleam, Alexandra Ștefan, Alexandru Știube, Cristian Răzvan Uță
Sibiu: Andreea Bena, Raluca Elena Coșăreanu, Alexandra Dogaru, Cristina Fău, Horia Fedorca, Maya Goia, Ilie Mitrea, Sergiu Pavălă, Andrei Popa, Paula Prade
Cluj-Napoca: Lucia Codreanu, Gabriela Jilav, Virgil Puiac, Elena Waldorf
Bucharest: Official photos of the Romanian version of the performance / app FTHE WALKS by Rimini Protokoll. Photo: Bogdan Botofei
The curatorial project starts from the theme of the Arts and Science Annual - reconnection - and was specially designed as a bridge between different types of artistic manifestations, between artists and between the diverse public of the cities in which it will was itinerated: Timișoara, Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest.
Young artists from Timișoara, Sibiu and Cluj-Napoca wee invited to undergo the 10 ”Walks” of the experimental audio performance / app by Rimini Protokoll (in co-production with creart/Teatrelli and in partnership with Goethe-Institut Bucharest) and to discover their city from a performative perspective, their experiences (materialized in photos that the application invites you to take) being encapsulated in an installation created by Cosmin Paulescu (Cozo), in the form of maps.
Part of the installation are also the works designed by the artist Alexandru Cînean from Sibiu, that were presented during the exhibition EYE SB-YOU (FITS 2021) and are now recontextualized for the project "Reconnecting the City". The painted eyes, in the skylights of Sibiu’s houses, through which the city became a spectator of its own histories, will add new stories and images, from a different perspective: in 2021 they have documented the life of the city as an objective "spectator", now they become subjective "spectators” who collect memories through an indirect performative experience – ”The Walks”.
The perspective is completed by the ”people” of Anca Boeriu, her works offering a voice of the city through their ”presence”, but also through an audio installation: You look around, you see, listen, feel. It’s your love affair with the city. Then you wonder if people inhabit the city or allow themselves to be inhabited by it.
The exhibition project is part of the Art and Science Annual - Neo Art CONNECT (NAC), the first national platform, network and annual of art and science, initiated by Galateca Gallery and the Cultural Association Neo Art Romania and developed in partnership with BRD Groupe Société Générale, having as strategic partner Fundația 9. The platform kicked off its artistic events on 18th of May, with an exhibition entitled RECONNECTION, which has presented the five winning projects of the grants offered by BRD Groupe Société Générale during pilot edition of Neo Art CONNECT pilot edition, held in autumn 2022. Events within the platform are planned until the end of July 2023.