The guests of the last edition of the "Artă-ma" program. Reintroduction to artistic education" are Adriana Gheorghe, Răzvan Anton & Mihai Iepure Gorsky, Akira Kawasaki, Gerhard Jäger, Adrian Costache, Claudiu Gaiu, Nita Mocanu, Mimi Ciora & Sergiu Sas and Claudiu Lorand Maxim.
"Artă-mă. Reintroduction in artistic education" proposes a framework for working with and collaboration between artists and educators, as well as between various institutions and independent cultural platforms, on the topic of artistic education and through art. It brings together an interdisciplinary mix of concerns and experiences, of different voices and visions, in an attempt to lay down the premises of current and relevant pedagogies for our times.
The program "Art me. Reintroduction in artistic education" initiates a wider research on artistic educational contents, out of the desire to offer the Romanian pedagogical world contemporary landmarks, while promoting solidarity and joint action between artists, educators, pupils and students.
SCHEDULE
Friday, November 24
Saturday, November 25
Sunday, November 26
*Lunch, tea or coffee are included.
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Adriana Gheorghe works on the border between performance, poetry, serious theory and speculative pedagogy. He uses his own artistic practice to curate processes and constellations and imagine new modes of transmission and coexistence. He is currently the host of the plural space Teatre in Bucharest. With an initial training in literature and art theory, for about ten years he has been choreographing verbal language in the context of contemporary dance, in its many possible declinations, on the border with post-dramatic theatre, poetry, theory, conceptual art and in the many relationships that it establishes with that situated knowledge, in order to resensitize him.
Răzvan Anton studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj (Graphics) and Camberwell College of Arts London (MA Drawing). He has been teaching at the Cluj University of Art and Design since 2010 and was part of the artist collective of the Brush Factory. He was involved in the digital archiving project of the Minerva Archive in Cluj. He was a resident artist at the House near the Synagogue (Mediaș) in the Absence as Heritage project, within TRACES (Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts) during 2016-2018. In November 2018 he was transit/erste artist in residence at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. Between 2019-2021 he co-curated the visual arts program of the Brush Factory, together with Mihai Iepure-Górski. She is currently part of the coordination team of the digital archiving project of the photo collection of Dolgozó Nő (Working Woman) magazine from Cluj.
Mihai Iepure-Górski is a graduate of the Art Academy and lives in Cluj-Napoca. He works in a variety of mediums trying his best to avoid falling prey to them, but he often returns to a working method that involves partnerships with other practitioners from various artistic fields such as: actors, performers, musicians, fashion designers, etc. He has been part of the artist collective of the Brush Factory since 2014. In October 2018 he was transit/Erste artist in residence at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. He participated in the 2nd edition of the Mobile Biennale and was among the beneficiaries of the initial call of the Salonu de Proiecte, Bucharest. Between 2019-2021 he co-curated and coordinated the Visual Arts program of the Brush Factory, together with Răzvan Anton. His curatorial practice continues in partnership with various organizations, such as: Electroputere Plus, Minitremu.
Akira Kawasaki is a young artist, musician and film director. He grew up in Fukuoka, Japan and in Santa Monica, United States. After graduating from Musashino Art University in Tokyo, he moved to Berlin where he lives and studies.
Gerhard Jäger was born in Austria and is the general and artistic director of the educational center ABC (Art Basics for Children) in Brussels, a project he started 12 years ago. ABC today is comprised of several interactive and artistic studios for play, work, research, discovery and expression. It includes a variety of permanent workshops dedicated to the visual or dramatic arts, a print shop, an auditorium, a cinema, a nursery-café, an architecture studio, a child-friendly kitchen, outdoor play areas and a vegetable garden. It has become a research center focused on arts, culture and education, intended for children, families, teachers in training, authors of workshops, mediators within museum institutions or galleries, etc.
Adrian Costache is lect. dr. within the Department of Socio-Human Sciences Didactics at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.
Claudiu Gaiu studied philosophy in Cluj, and then specialized in the history of modern philosophy through a doctorate at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of a monograph on a disciple of Montaigne, La prudence de l'homme d'esprit. L'ethique de Pierre Charron, Bucharest, 2010, and founding member of the Center for the Study of Modern Political Thought, an international association dedicated to the research of political philosophy between the 15th and 18th centuries.
Nita Mocanu (b.1977) is a visual artist, high school art teacher and cultural manager. Her artworks are related to themes in social psychology, education, ecology and contemporary philosophy (new materialism). His favorite mediums are contemporary poetry, photography, video art and installation. Since 2012 he is a professor of Computerized Image Processing at the "Sabin Drăgoi" College of Arts in Arad, a discipline that he has rethought and built a series of projects and activities dedicated to teenagers. She is the founder of the Doar Maine Association for art, new technologies, ecology and community.
Mimi Ciora & Sergiu Sas are a couple of artists who live and work in Timișoara. Their artistic practice intersects in areas such as science fiction, ecology or comics and rejects the privileging of human existence over the existence of other beings. They participated in several solo and group exhibitions and together founded the independent space Indecis.
Claudiu-Lorand Maxim (b. 26.08.1991) is a theater director and cultural manager. He graduated from the Faculty of Theater and Television (Theatre Directing section) and completed his studies at the Faculty of History and Philosophy (Philosophy section), within BabeșBolyai University, Cluj. In 2016, he graduated from the Master of Performing Arts and Film at the same faculty. He is a founding member of the Reciproca Association, an association that aims to develop the cultural climate and increase the degree of civic responsibility by initiating and coordinating activities of an artistic, social and scientific nature. He is currently the Director General of the Tranzit Foundation, which manages the contemporary art space Casa Tranzit.