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PArAllel eVenTs of BuChAresT BiennAle 5
POLIMATECA
May 9 - 31, 2012
Festival of Political Arts and Sciences,
1st edition
8, Spiru Haret st. & 24, Sf.Stefan st.,
Bucharest
For the detailed program:
www.fspub.unibuc.ro/polimateca
Politics ain’t easy. It may not be rocket science
but, in the right hands, it can achieve
the status of art. Would you let it just to
politicians? Our current politicians?
Neither do we. And that’s why we invented
POLIMATECA. A chic party of food for
thought on indecently hot topics, served
with hors d’oeuvre and finely crafted collections
for connoisseurs and debutants:
Haute Culture (high class conferences
with top thinkers from fields as diverse as
architecture, history, medicine, economics
or engineering), Prêt-à-penser (informal
and slightly unconventional debates and
roundtables), Handmade (events with and
about civil society) and In the making
(career workshops). For the young ones
we have a School of political media and
communication but if you are an artist, we
invite you to exhibit in the ‘Salon’ of social
and political cartoons, illustration and photography.
Irrespective of age, as this is the
Year of Solidarity across Generations. To
mark it, we will open the festival with a
basketball mini-championship between
journalists, politicians from across the
entire political spectrum and, of course,
the hosts - the Faculty of Political Science
at the University of Bucharest (FSPUB).
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Simultaneous Parallel Events
Have we mentioned that, during and after
POLIMATECA, we also host a part of the
Bucharest International Biennial of
Contemporary Art? Interested? All events
will take place on our premises (8, Spiru
Haret st. and 24, Sf.Stefan st.) but more
locations may be added.
POLIMATECA is a non partisan series of
events that aims to raise awareness on
the fact that political sciences do not necessarily
produce politicians but train the
mind in the spirit of freedom, argument
discipline, curiosity, empathy and creativity,
essential for crafting independent personalities
capable to generate and lead
successful personal and community projects.
Currently at its first edition, POLI-
MATECA replaces a pilot project known as
the Political Science Week that we initiated
in 2011 to mark 20 years since our
establishment as the first Romanian higher
education institution created in opposition
to the communist political education.
Coordinator: lect. dr. Luciana Alexandra
Ghica, +40 723 630 040).
CONTROL DAY OUT
June 1, 2012
Live concert, open air.
Arenele Romane, Cutitul de Argint 26
st., Bucharest
Powered by Control Club
With: Wild Beasts, Woodkid, The Shoes,
O.Children
For details: www.control-club.ro
PRISPA
To Observe And To Be Observed
July 1 - July 31, 2012
Șoseaua Chitilei 284-286 (Colosseum
Retail Park, in front of Leroy Merlin),
Bucharest,
Opening day: July 1, 2012, 10:00
PRISPA is a student project that offers another
perspective on sustainable living, while
also aiming at the revival of the traditional
Romanian village. The goal is to build a solar
house that produces all the energy it needs
for normal functioning and to use it not only
as an architecture object, but also as a social
instrument. Hence, the house has to meet
the needs of an average couple (price, ease
of living, adaptability, contemporary comfort),
but it also has to keep a touch of the national
identity, while creating the kind of space
Romanians can psychologically understand
and relate to. It is all about building an environmentally
friendly home that uses technology
without being threatening and also helps
bring down some walls people are hiding
behind when it comes to being part of a community.
Overpopulated cities are overrated
and the rural countryside does not provide
what the modern society understands as
comfort. PRISPA is an alternative, if not a first
attempt at a solution. This new approach on
living must be at least experienced so, in July,
the team has a fully functional 1:1 scale prototype
on display and open for visiting. We
invite you to observe and to be observed!
For more details: www.prispa.org
MARCEL IANCU (JANCO),
UN VISIONNAIRE DE L'ART MODERNE
May 25 - June 22, 2012
SWAN Office & Technology Park, sos.
Bucuresti Nord 15 - 23 (Pipera),
Bucharest
Opening day: May 25, 2012, 18:00
A highly ethical art does not belong to one
brain only, but to the whole world. If art is
done only for one's own pleasure, one neither
does justice to other people, nor to
oneself.” (Marcel Janco, preface to the
catalogue of "Das Neue Leben"
Exhibition (The New Life) Zurich, 1919).
Marcel Janco's genius lies not only in his
highly innovative work: reliefs, paintings,
woodcuts, sculptures, and architecture,
but in the courage reflected in his creations.
The artist's work establishes him as
a pioneer of modernism and his artistic
experiments seem daring even today. 117
years have passed since Marcel Janco
(Iancu) was born on May 24th, 1895 and
73 years since his last exhibition in
Romania, in 1939, at the Ghica Hall
together with Milița Pătraşcu. (The Ghica
Building was the last Romanian construction
by Marcel and Iuliu Iancu).
For more details: www.colors-art.ro
MELTING by Judit Balko
May 25, 2012, 18.00
Free Press Square, Bucharest (Piata
Presei Libere), Bucharest
Judit Balko is opening the second phase of
Project 1990 with Melting.
"Project 1990" was initiated in January 2010
by Ioana Ciocan and highlights her desire to
revitalize an area of Bucharest with a tumultuous
history that has largely been ignored
since the advent of democracy. Artists invited
by Ciocan to exhibit through this initiative
have succeeded over two years to create a
new identity for the former location of
Caragea's Lenin. All of the artworks exhibited
have made critical artistic statements about
Romanian sociopolitical life.
The relationship between totalitarianism and
political pressure fostered works which tended
to produce art that served and expressly
supported the greater glory of the
Communist/Ceausescu régime.
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