Dis-Economy of Life – Bucharest Biennale 3 – parallel event

Exhibition / Travelling Video Installation
DIS-ECONOMY OF LIFE
Migratory Aesthetics, Travelling Concepts & Organization of Economic Life

CINEMA SUITCASE / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Artists: Mieke Bal, Zen Marie, Thomas Sykora, Gary Ward and Michelle Williams
Curator: Marko Stamenkovic, art-e-conomy / Belgrade, Serbia

June 21 – 25, 2007
Desant, 123 Ion Mihalache Bd., Bucharest, Romania

Opening: Tuesday, June 21, 19.00 / Followed by Public Debate, 20.00

Participants: Andreea Grecu (economist), Eugen Radescu (politologist), Razvan Ion (editor of Pavilion), Alex Balasescu (antropologist), Cristian Crisbasan (journalist), Catalin Avramescu (political analist).
Moderator: Marko Stamenkovic (curator).

After party: Frame Club, Bd. Magheru nr. 38b, 22.00

The concept of dis-economy of life is meant to suggest the tight connections between the various areas in which the economic, in the sense of organization of life, affects people: public space, private life, individual mental well-being. In all these domains, a form of dis-economy occurs at the present time. As a result, people float in uncertainty, at the same time economically connected to and yet, disconnected from one another. The proposed series of films present these domains, by means of visual description, narrative, encounters, and reflexivity

Cinema Suitcase is an international group of filmmakers pursuing projects of experimental social documentary. The group consists of: Mieke Bal, Zen Marie, Thomas Sykora, Gary Ward, and Michelle Williams. Coming from a diversity of fields in the visual arts, they seek to facilitate the self-narration of their subjects, always encountered on the basis of a great intimacy, rather than constructing their stories for them. This approach enhances the performative quality of filmmaking as a collective process. The travelling media exhibition brings together three separate yet complementary work-segments (video installation Nothing is Missing; Colony; Mille et un jours & Access Denied).

Supported by:
AFCN (Romanian National Cultural Fund)
Pavilion | contemporary art & culture magazine
Persona

The debate (from left to right: Andreea Grecu, Alex Balsescu, Razvan Ion, Eugen Radescu). Videostill from Realitatea TV.

Eugen Radescu and Alex Balsescu live debate on Realitatea TV.

Marko Stamenkovic (the curator of Dis-Economy- left) and Alex Balasescu (antropologist).

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