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The FLAT SPACE project is a functional replica of a one-room apartment that comprises the basic components of a typical socialist living space: the kitchen, the bathroom, the living room, and the balcony. The transparency and openness of the structure is an important feature of the project, since the apartment has no external walls (with the exception of the façade), and the Ωat interior is exposed to the public. Giving the local community a platform for self-representation, CHIOSC becomes a political instrument, enabling civil empowerment in a perspective in which self-determination means recovery of an autonomous, or collective, capacity to express desires, in opposition to a system that imposes and proliferates control and sanctions. In the summer of 2009, the artist in residency project was initiated within the framework of the CHIOSC project. It led to many types of cooperation and a variety of collaborative artistic projects. The ∫rst artist to participate in CHIOSC’s artist in residency program was Tonka Maleković, whose collaboration with the Moldavian artist Ion Fisticanu resulted in the project The possibility of the city. The CHIOSC project is part of the Loose Associations: Lines of Movement program, which is aimed at research and documentation of experimental practices in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc.
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participating artists : Michele Bressan (Ro), Nicoleta Esinencu (Md), Ion Fisticanu (Md), Nicu Ilfoveanu (Ro), Tonka Maleković (Hr), Vlad Nanca˘ (Ro), Mircea Nicolae (Ro), Stefan Rusu (Md) curators : Vladimir Us/Oberliht (Md) i Slobodne veze/Loose Associations (Hr)
n the beginning of 2008 began the collaboration between Loose Associations/Slobodne veze and the Moldavian association Oberliht. It was a project of artist intervention in the public space of Chisinau, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Moldova. The project entitled Interventions3 involved more than thirty participants from several European countries who were invited to reΩect over the processes which have shaped Chisinau’s public space, its visual structure, the memory and the everyday experience of its inhabitants. Taking into account the country’s complex geopolitical position, its state of being in between European aspirations and Soviet heritage, the remains of which are reΩected in unresolved territorial issues, as well as in symbols and imagery, the question of identity still remains one of the dominant issues on the country’s agenda. The collaboration was continued in 2009 when the CHIOSC project, a platform for public participation and cultural production, was launched. CHIOSC is embodied in a small architectural unit entitled FLAT SPACE by Stefan Rusu, erected in the center of Chisinau. In view of the lack of institutional support for contemporary artistic expression, CHIOSC appears as a reaction to the given context and as an alternative to the existing selfsuf∫cient, highly ideologized system of cultural institutions. Following Deleuze’s logic of micro-dispositive (dispositif micrologique), the project ∫lls one of the empty niches in the area of Moldova’s contemporary culture.
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sudjeluju: Michele Bressan (Ro), Nicoleta Esinencu (Md), Ion Fisticanu (Md), Nicu Ilfoveanu (Ro), Tonka Maleković (Hr), Vlad Nanca˘ (Ro), Mircea Nicolae (Ro), Stefan Rusu (Md) kustosi: Vladimir Us/Oberliht (Md) i Slobodne veze (Hr)
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očetkom 2008. godine započela je suradnja udruge Slobodne veze s moldavskom udrugom Oberliht na projektu umjetničkih intervencija u javnom prostoru, u Kišinevu, glavnom gradu bivše sovjetske republike Moldavije. Projekt naziva Intervencije3 okupio je više od trideset sudionika iz nekoliko europskih zemalja koji su pozvani da promišljaju grad Kišinev, aktualno stanje javnog prostora, vizualnu strukturu, memoriju i svakodnevno iskustvo njegovih stanovnika. S obzirom na složenu geo-političku poziciju zemlje, njezin speci∫čan položaj između europskih aspiracija i sovjetskog naslijeđa, čije su posljedice još vidljive i očituju se u neriješenim teritorijalnim pitanjima, simbolima i imaginariju, pitanja identiteta, i nakon proglašenja samostalnosti, predstavljaju jednu od gorućih tema. Suradnja je nastavljena i u 2009. godini kada je lansiran CHIOSC projekt, platforma za javnu participaciju i kulturnu produkciju, utjelovljen u maloj arhitektonskoj jedinici naziva Otvoreni stan, radu umjetnika Stefana Rusua, postavljenoj u središtu Kišineva. U situaciji nedostatka institucionalne podrške za suvremeni umjetnički izraz, CHIOSC se pojavljuje kao reakcija na zadani kontekst i alternativa postojećem samodostatnom, visoko ideologiziranom sistemu kulturnih institucija, te slijedeći Deleuzeovu logiku mikro-dispozitiva (dispositif micrologique), ispunjava jednu od
praznih niša u području suvremene kulture u Moldaviji. Otvoreni stan je funkcionalna replika jednosobnog stana koji sadrži osnovne komponente tipičnog socijalističkog habitata: kuhinju, kupaonicu, dnevni boravak i balkon. Transparentnost i otvorenost ove strukture važna je komponenta projekta jer stan nema vanjskih zidova te stoji ogoljen u javnom prostoru, otrgnut iz svog prirodnog okruženja, tipiziranog socijalističkog stambenog bloka. Pružajući lokalnoj zajednici platformu za samoreprezentaciju, CHIOSC postaje i politički instrument, pridonoseći građanskom osnaživanju u perspektivi u kojoj samoodređenje stavlja naglasak na obnavljanje autonomne ili kolektivne sposobnosti za izražavanjem težnji, individualnih želja, u suprotnosti sa sistemom koji nameće kontrolu i naposlijetku, sankcionira. Tako je i ljeti 2009. u okviru CHIOSCa započeo rezidencijalni program koji je potaknuo niz suradnji i kolaborativnih umjetničkih projekta. Prva umjetnica u CHIOSC rezidencijalnom programu bila je Tonka Maleković, koja je s moldavskim umjetnikom Ionom Fisticanuom realizirala projekt Mogućnost grada. Projekt CHIOSC odvija se u okviru programa Slobodne veze: Linije kretanja koji je usmjeren na istraživanje i dokumentiranje kritičkih i eksperimentalnih praksi u zemljama bivšeg istočnog bloka. Nataša Bodrožić i Ivana Meštrov
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FLAT SPACE by Stefan Rusu, CHIOSC project, Chisinau 2009
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Flower Bridge by Vlad Nanca, Mircea Nicolae and Nicoleta Esinencu, INTERVENTIONS3 project, Chisinau 2008
slobodne veze, suvremene umjetničke prakse udruga je usmjerena na kritičko istraživanje međunarodnih umjetničkih praksi i mogućnosti njihove šire recepcije. Svojim aktivnostima potiče susret, razgovor i razmjenu. Nastala je kao nastavak istoimenog programa koji se odvija u Zagrebu od 2007. Slobodne veze su: Nataša Bodrožić, Tonka Maleković, Ivana Meštrov.
The Possibility of the City by Tonka Maleković and Ion Fisticanu, CHIOSC project, Chisinau 2009
loose associations/ slobodne veze is Zagreb based organization dealing with critical research on international art practices and potentials of their wider reception. It encourages encounter, discussion and exchange, and is active internationally. It is founded as a sequel of the project "Loose associations, contemporary art practices on the international scene today" running in Zagreb since 2007. Loose Associations/Slobodne veze are Nataša Bodrožić, Tonka Maleković, Ivana Meštrov.