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looking back
It Artist-in-residence centre www.morisena.org,
was a place set up for a series of experimental projects. The idea was
to
propose projects as a context
for exploring a local culture while
living in a small community. It has all started in the spirit of
welcoming artists from various cultures to participate in collaborative
art projects, to share a concept, a house, a garden, local culture and
customs, all that can happen around the endeavour:
the challenges of creation, organisation, production in a self
sustainable environment, the fun, the cooking, the cleaning, the
gardening, the failures and eventual results.
Visual arts after
the 90’s. Iuliana Varodi
and Morisena, by Ioana
Vlasiu
"Targu-Mures- born Iuliana Varodi is back
(...) with a certain kind of social activism and the belief that the
connections between people that share passions and interests can create
a better framework for everyday life. From her travels through India,
she returned with many photopraphs and especially memories and
experiences of another human temperature that constituted the starting
point and the substance for several exhibitions of photography at
Targu-Mures and at The Art Museum in Cluj – as well as for a
volume of poetry in Romanian. During Fata Morgana, the exhibition in
Cluj, Iuliana Varodi shared a compressed diary of her encounter with
India. She took part with photos in the itinerant exhibition
“24 hours at home in Europe”, which was presented
in a couple of European countries. (...) Travelling is an art,
we used to say.
Nowadays, art is travelling, at least since Andrei Cadere’s
wanderings in the 70-ies. While Andrei Cadere’s
project was individual, today’s projects have a programatic
comunitary dimension. Contemporary nomadism doesn’t have the
exotic in its seeking expectations, although this may not be totally
absent in the case of a westerner who has come to Transylvania. The
spirit of improvisation and spontaneity, which does not mean lack of
coherence, a keen observation and the capacity to generate meaning are
stongly present in the video produced by the participants. The ten
young artists (participants at 'Hitchhiking to Transylvania' the first
project at morisena)
have crossed a great part of Europe and Romania in order
to meet each other in Sangeorgiu de Mures, to spend some time together
in an unknown place, everyone bringing with themselves their story and
the experience of the journey, their own personal view on otherness,
tender or harsher, narrated on a lyrical or ironical, funny or dramatic
tone, in a laconic or descriptive manner".
Our 2007 projects:
Hitchhiking to Transylvania
- collaborative video
art project http://www.morisena.org/hitchhike
Artists: Pauline Niks
& Jesse Cremers, Edina Csullog & Ionutz
Pitzurescu, Wouter Osterholt & Elke Uitenhuis, Mark Hansen, Christine
Neihoff, Cătălina Nistor, Klaus Taschler and Heiner
Holtappels - artistic director.
TransyMusic - collaborative
contemporary music project:
http://morisena.org/transymusic.htm
Invited artists: Margita Zalite, Martha
Moppette & Ergo Phizmiz and kids.
Observing Julie Upmeyer and helping Baiba Lange have added an extra
dmension to the culinary and babysitting experience of the sonic
project.
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