Activity report for 1999(PDF) - Soros Foundation Moldova

66
SOROS FOUNDATION MOLDOVA
SOROS CENTER FOR
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Looking at the range of our main activities in the
past years and following their upward progression, we
could say that this stage has been completed and it will
serve as basis for further development of support to
Contemporary Art in the Republic of Moldova. The
beginning of a new stage was marked by the
CarbonART 1999 Summer Camp, which was attended—
unlike in the previous years—mostly by new artists. A
number of activities were initiated by some of our beneficiaries
with whom the Center had worked together in
the past: they opened art galleries, organized symposia,
created NGOs. Thus, the establishment of new artistic
structures was encouraged, which will operate in future
in parallel with the SCCA.
Exhibitions
Money
February 27, 1999
Chiøinæu, UA Gallery
SCCA, Chiøinæu
The exhibition took on the form of action/manifesto
in order to draw the public’s attention to the fact
that money is not a value in itself but rather just a
means to an end, whose value and significance is
established during a social transaction. The exhibition
attempted to transform money from the obsessive topic
of the present day to a carrier of an artistic message.
$ 760
Film Masterpieces for Children
March – June, 1999
Umbria Gallery
SCCA, Chiøinæu
“Showing a program for children” means coexistence
of children and masterpieces in the Umbria space.
Films by A. Tarkovsky, F. Fellini, A. Kurosawa, V. Venders,
Ch. Chaplin were shown to children in the 1st–
12th grades. The films were clipped to conform to the
age of the children, their mood at that moment and
adapted to children’s perception (this opportunity is
important both for children and the cinema), as in each
film there are shots which may influence the children
for the rest of their lives.
$ 4,250
Basarabians Transiting through Cluj
May 19 – 28, 1999
Romania, Cluj National Art Museum, Galeria
Veche, Cluj-Zalæu-Bistrifla Intercounty Branch.
SCCA, Chiøinæu, TRANZIT Foundation
These were a number of exhibitions of fine arts,
whose objective was to give a panoramic view of young
arts in the cultural space east of the Prut river. The three
ensembles, exhibited in three distinct contexts, spoke
about the innovative problematic of art in Chiøinæu.
Participants:
Mark VERLAN
Igor SCERBINA
Alexandru ØCHIOPU
Lilia DRAGNEV
Lucia MACARI
Pavel BRÆILÆ
Veaceslav DRUfiÆ
$ 1,280
The Night of Advertising Devourers
June 18, 1999
Chiøinæu, National Palace
CSAC, Chiøinæu, OWH TV Studio
Co-organizers: Alliance Francaise de Moldavie,
Ambassade de France en Moldavie
The Night of Advertising Devourers was a show
that presented to the audience selections from Jean
Marie Boursicot’s collection of more than 800,000
advertising spots. This collection made it into the
Guinness Book and the show became a success and
was repeated yearly in countries such as France, Italy,
Switzerland, Germany.
The dynamic and spectacular quality of the show
attracts a large audience, which includes renowned
producers and beneficiaries of advertising. This show is
at the same time a strong attraction for mass media.
$ 4,619
Video Marathon’99
December 23, 1999
Chiøinæu, Eugene Ionesco Theater Hall
SCCA, Chiøinæu
This was the Third Video Art, Experimental Film
and Artistic Spots Marathon, a 12 hour show. This year
we presented an anthology of experimental film/video
from the 20s-60s, from the unique collection of William
Moritz in Hollywood, USA: The Absolute Film. Other
authors also contributed films to this event. A number
of them came from Dara Birnbaum, and Hans Scheirl
contributed his Dandy Dust.
SCCA’s archive thus acquired 10 hours of valuable
video art.
The Marathon was complemented with a review of
the art film/video from Moldova. The artists producing
films or video had the opportunity to show their work
to the public at large.
$ 1,750
Blocknotes – Cinema
Event planned for November 2000