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Adrian Majuru – Emotional Geographies (BB3 parallel event)

Thursday November 22nd 2007, 11:06 pm
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November 21, 2007, 18.30 h.
EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES – URBAN MYTHS
Lecture by Adrian Majuru

National Center for Dance, Bucharest
Bd. Nicolae Balcescu, nr. 2 (TNB, 4th Floor, Ronda Hall)

History also maps apparently imperceptible dimensions. These are difficult to detect, deviate and calatogue, since they easily traverse different historical periods, however, once they have penetrated the imperceptible, answers to secular questions may be unveiled. How come we often forget where we started from? How come doing good has a negative connotation? How come “the asses never forigive one of their kind for having risen above media”? (Stefan Zeletin, “From the land of asses”). The emotional geographies are cartogaphies, whose historical fluctuation traverses many epochs and social hierarchies. They are the most sensitive sensors, through which nature strives for or forces an adaptation in a history of its own!
The lecture of Adrian Majuru deals with an emotional cartography of Bucharest, which in a way anticipates the theme of next year’s BUCHAREST BIENNALE 3: “Being here. Mapping the Contemporary” curated by Jan-Erik Lundstrom si Johan Sjostrom.

Adrian Majuru (born 1968, Bucharest) coordinates Folk Art Museum “Dr. Nicolae Minovici” and is one of the initiators behind the founding of the Museum of Urban Anthropology. He is the author of several publications, such as Bucharest of the outskirts or the periphery as a mode of existence (Compania 2003) and Childhood according to romanians (Compania, 2006).