SPEAKING OF A GAP CAN CAUSE DOUBLES PERIFERIC 8 BIENNIAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ART AS GIFT IASI ROMANIA Curated by Dora Hegyi A project by Ingela Johansson, Inga Zimprich. With Sönke Hallmann With further contributions by Octavian Esanu, Leonid Vojtsechov, Nikita Kadan Within the current phase of the CCCK project we have come to focus on those procedures of managing art inherent to the SCCA and their normative influence on artistic production. The development of curatorial concepts, annual exhibitions, publications and art management training mark a professionalisation of the arts sector in several countries of Soros activity. Next to establishing artist documentation, fostering local audiences and artistic production, the circulation of its products amongst the SCCA network and international presentations have been part of the SCCA's uniform mission. With this also politically connoted set of relations embodied by the Soros Centers of Contemporary Art we may ask to what extent the restructuring of the field of visual arts influences what we would term here as 'social' or 'cultural literacy'. 'Literacy' in this sense could refer to our culture's ability to relate to the recent past, as much as its culture of memory, or its possibilities of critique and expression. Within the system of showing and exhibiting we comply with the complex rules that determine that which may eventually gain visibility and appear as readable cultural text. Within the contemporary art centre or museum, and making use of the Soros Art Centers network as an exemplar, we are able to watch the institution's own progressive writing. Aiming to address that language at work in the contemporary art institution, its administrative procedures and logics such as that of exchange, archiving and documentation, it was however unforeseen how much our focus would apply to our own articulation as artists. In Speaking of a gap can cause doubles we have withdrawn from the idea to represent one or several Soros Art Centers and their productions. Instead we aim to assemble a series of gestures which amongst each other might unfold a space inviting further enquiry into the modes of institutionalisation. Projection Leonid Vojtsechov Straight Speech Photo series, Odessa 1984. More information about Leonid Vojtsechov (in Russian) download PDF Publication 1000 copies The Transition of Soros Centers to Contemporary Art: the managed avant-garde written by Octavian Esanu Design of the publication by Kateryna Svirgunenko Printed in Iasi Video on TV monitor Reading a double book Dummy of the upcoming publication of the Department of Reading. Designed by Paul Gangloff. Postcard. 500 copies Announcement Texts waiting for history - excerpting Heiner Müller. Staged event by Sönke Hallmann, Department of Reading. Audiotrack on loudspeakers Interview with Octavian Esanu about the publication "Unfortunately last Sunday afternoon somebody left the door open... And Knut's mountain bike has been stolen". (Editors: Octavian Esanu, Franziska Lesák, Giselle de Oliveira Macedo. Jan van Eyck Academie. 2000) THANKS Ingela Johansson and Inga Zimprich would like to thank in ODESA Miroslav Kulshitzky, Leonid Vojtsechov, Larisa Osipenko, Lyudmila Khersonskaya, CHISINAU K:SAK Centrul Pentru Arta Contemporana Octavian Esanu, Lilia Dragneva Stefan Rusu IASI Periferic 8 team, Dora Hegyi, Matei Bejenaru, Zsuzsa Laslo, Catalin Gheorghe and others SOFIA Interspace Margarita Dorovska KYIV Kateryna Svirgunenko, CCA Kyiv Yuliya Vaganova, Group R.E.P. SPEAKING OF A GAP CAN CAUSE DOUBLES has been realized with the support of IASPIS International Artists Studio Program In Sweden and ERSTE Foundation

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