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scenaOn the background of nothingness. Interdisciplinary research, informal meetings, discussions (with students, journalists, writers, actors, musicians, artists, critics, researchers)in our apartment on 22 Italian Street Bl. Y3. The Hungarian Television (without knowing the language, by the dictionary): interesting exercise of making sense out of the imageanalysis. Mail art... imaginary form of external communication. The County Library – forbidden books – the librarian at the reading hall – lesson in empathy, altruism, responsibilityand generosity. 1986 USA: Biological agents, altered viruses, Calf and sheep cloned; Dolly, the sheep – 2003–2006, Ukraine: Catastrophe at Chernobyl; Romania isaffected – the state doesn’t admit a thing, Doru Covrig, Napoleon Tiron, Gusztáv Ütô, Réka Kónya. 1987 Romania: Iaøi and Braøov – 5,000 workers rebel; protest movementat “Nicolina” Workshops in Iaøi, and students’ manifestation; workers manifest at “Steagul Roøu” Plant in Braøov – thousands of people cross the city chanting slogans; theydevastate the Party’s County Committee headquarters – on the front wall, anti-communist slogans; in several cities around the country, 62 workers are being arrested andexpelled; Doina Cornea, her son Leontin Iuhas, a group of students, Marius Baia sympathize with them; the union members from Zærneøti – Mihai Torje, Marin Brâncoveanu,Marian Lupou – are being arrested and inquired, Bucharest. I start to study at the Art Academy. I have a collection of incredible events related to my admissions... I developan infinite repulsion for everything – I want to make up for the time lost and do what I want to. (1987–93) I founded and organized the experimental workshop at the faculty(exhibitions, meetings, debates). I wanted it to be a students’ project, self-motivated... a space of freedom, of attempts... an ideal space. Experiment/Challenge for mycolleagues. Moved image – work lasting a few seconds... (it’s just after 1990 that I would find out it is called performance). The answer of a colleague, Beer Peter – a smokeinstallation, Teodor Graur, Intifada – against the occupation of Palestine by Israel. 1988 Hungary: The Party of Young Democrats, Nationalist movements in USSR, Prague:10,000 de protesters beaten by the police, Oradea. In the apartment we live in – Proba somnului [The Ordeal of sleep], The poet Ana Blandiana banned and under watch,The Triumphal Arch is set on fire; Lenin’s statue – anticommunist slogans, Radu Chesaru, Geo Asavei; scores of young men from Bucharest spread manifests – arrested andinquired, Dan Perjovschi, Dan Stanciu, Mircea Stænescu. 1989 Democracy in Chile, Paraguay, Alger, Romania: three editors from “România liberæ” are arrested – Petre MihaiBæcanu, Mihai Creangæ, Anton Uncu, plus Nicolae Chivoiu, printer, for editing an illegal publication with anticommunist articles, Braøov, Liviu Babeø sets himself on fire ona ski path at Poiana Braøov, shouting anticommunist slogans, Mircea Dinescu, letter in “Libération” – home arrest, Dan Deøliu – home arrest; arrested and inquired – GabrielAndreescu (Bucharest), Dan Petrescu, Liviu Antonesei, Liviu Cangeopol (Iaøi), Anti-Ceauøescu rally at Iaøi; the organizers Cassian Maria Spiridon, Øtefan Prutianu, Titi Iacobare arrested, The Hungarian-Austrian border is opened – 57,000 East-Germans go to Austria via Hungary, Beijing: the rallies held in Tiananmen Square are crushed in blood,Czechoslovakia, Poland: mass protests, Free elections in Hungary, Salman Rushdie: “The Satanic Verses” – sentenced to death by Ayatollah Khomeini, Oradea: Anulare[Cancel] – a photo work in our apartment; Oradea. Hærfli de impresii [Sensation maps] – paper sculptures; Bucharest. The Art Academy. Pentru departele meu în timp [Formy distant one in time] – experiment; Bucharest. The Art Academy. Legæturi [Bonds] – experiment; My class is forced to make mosaic floors for the House of the People – Irefuse and I am threatened to be expelled by inspector Popa from the Minister of Education. A paper on Aesthetics about experiment – I invite artists and theoreticiansfrom outside the country; an experiment about experiment; I organize two exhibitions – Studiu [Study] and Autoportret [Self-portrait], Romania: PCR dissidents “the letterof the 6”, November 9 – The Fall of the Berlin Wall, The knocking down of the communist regimes, Democracy in Eastern Europe, Romania: December 16 – the revolutionof the young starts at Timiøoara; tens of deaths and hundreds injured; arrests, torture, December 20 – we are at Sibiu, in the street, Bucharest: December 21 – following thefiasco of the rally set up by Elena and Nicolae Ceauøescu, they flee by helicopter; they are caught and executed on December 25, at Tîrgoviøte, The power is taken by theNational Salvation Front – a neo-communist transition, 1,000 people die, December 1989 marked the fall of Ceauøescu and the end of the communist regime in Romania,a violent change, which resulted in more than 1,000 deaths during the key events of Timiøoara and Bucharest. After a weeklong state of unrest in the city of Timiøoara, Ceauøesculost his grip on power. A mass rally summoned in support of Ceauøescu on December 21, 1989 turned hostile and the Ceauøescu couple was forced to flee Bucharest.However, they ended up in the custody of the army, and after being tried and convicted for “genocide” and other crimes by a kangaroo court, they were executed on December25, 1989. The series of events known as the Romanian Revolution of 1989 remain to this day a matter of debate, with many conflicting theories as to the motivationsand even the actions of some of the main players. Ion Iliescu, a former Communist Party official marginalized by Ceauøescu, attained national recognition as the leader ofan impromptu governing coalition, the National Salvation Front (FSN) that proclaimed the restoration of democracy and civil liberties on December 22, 1989. The CommunistParty was outlawed, and Ceauøescu’s most unpopular measures, such as bans on abortion and contraception, were rolled back. 1990 Euro-tunnel under The Channel,Romania: Presidential and parliamentary elections on May 20. Running against representatives of the pre-war National Peasants’ Party and National Liberal Party, and takingadvantage of FSN’s tight control of the national radio and television, Iliescu won 85% of the vote. The FSN secured two-thirds of the seats in Parliament. A university professorwith strong family roots in the Communist Party, Petre Roman, was named Prime Minister of the new government, which consisted mainly of former communist officials.The government initiated modest free market reforms. Because the majority of ministers in the Petre Roman government were ex-communists, anti-communist protestersinitiated a round-the-clock anti-government demonstration in University Square, Bucharest in April 1990. Two months later, these protesters, whom the government referredto as “hooligans”, were brutally dispersed by the miners from Jiu Valley, called in by President Iliescu; this event became known as the Mineriad. The miners also attackedthe headquarters and private residences of opposition leaders. Petre Roman’s government fell in late September 1991, when the miners returned to Bucharest to demandhigher salaries. A technocrat, Theodor Stolojan, was appointed to head an interim government until new elections could be held, The Two Germany unite, Hungary: The lastSoviet troops leave the country, The gradual elimination of the apartheid in South Africa, 1990–92 Chicago: “Conceptualism – Post-conceptualism” 1960–1990, MCA,Montreal: “The Art of Installation”, MCA, Vác, Budapest, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Istanbul and Ankara – first trips out of the country; Bucharest. Collections of terrestrial globes,nylon bags with printed images, art catalogues and multiples...; I take part to anticommunist protests – the revolution was stolen; University Square – student rallies againstneo-communism – the forces of order and the miners brutally step in and break down the pro-democracy movement; The Students’ League – I refused to meet Iliescu;Andreea Flondor replaces me, Romania acknowledges AIDS among the children, Sibiu. “Experiment” Camp; Liviana Dan, curator at Brukenthal Museum; a sad, but interestingexperience. Bucharest. “Modified Space”, Cæminul Artei Gallery, group exhibition in an architecturally altered space. I met Geta Brætescu – I saw what she had donein the ’70, in her workshop... I found out about performance art; I found out that I might find Kaprow at the UAP library (if it didn’t vanish – the habit was: leave nothing forthe others), she told us about Kantor... we talked about the reformulation of art education... she said I should teach, because I have pedagogic abilities... Surprisingly, IonBitzan asked if I would like to assist him (he teaches design), One billion people travel by plane each year in the world, Geta Brætescu gives up the studio; we apply at UAP[Romanian Artist Union] and receive the studio... shortly after it becomes a space for meetings, debates, lectures, dia/video presentations, exhibitions, conferences,71