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| Tiny skulls or stones for an article by Andrada Lăutaru up on Casa Jurnalistului. >>> English version here <<< |
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Showing posts with label wherewe. Show all posts
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CUCA festival
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a piece I did about CUCA shortly after coming back to the chaotic urban ant colony of Bucharest, and here's the page of the festival
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project - Krems 2014
took almost 2 months in the making, this little experiment. In February and March 2014, I went for some winding walks around the Krems region, during an Artist in Residence program. The project's outcome: several comics in varying formats, 3d figurines (out of wax, wood, porcelain, paper) and linocut prints, all bound together in a limited edition booklet.
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one run down Romanian village is the playground for brute force and "democratic" war fare. Para military are going about
the village giving out fines to villagers, beating up old nannies, to protect Chevron's corporate interests. A prime example
of how our fair government is violating human rights to boost their financial accounts for Christmas.
Thank you Chevron, it's as always a rape doing business with you!
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this Saturday, 16th of Brumaire, 18:00 over here
prinde orbu' scoate-i ochii!
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Short story long, in case it all looks too tangled up in images:
I live in a country much like any other 2nd world country. On the fringes of the 1st world, drilled by corporate interests
and dismantled by political corruption. Romania's currently facing a heavy load of ecological dangers and social dis-
array. Mining projects threaten our natural environment, stray dogs are going to be euthanized on the conveyor belt,
while we watch televised translations and debates about the elephant in the living room. Ignorance used to be bliss.
Gabriel Resources is an international gold corporation that's been pushing for 13 years to grab Romanian resources
through a mining project in the Carpathian mountains. The government's recently drafted a special law, tailored to fit
the corporate demands. The outcome of their agreement will be a natural disaster, consisting of a crater visible form
outer space and a cyanide dumping ground of unimaginable proportions. Romania stands to gain 6% of all the exploits
(which include the largest golden deposit in the E.U. and vast quantities of rare metals such as Gallium estimated at 4
times the value of gold).
But our national crisis isn't just about corporate crap. The area that Gabriel Resources is aiming at is one unique histo-
rical heritage. The Rosia Montana area has been exploited through mining for at least a thousand years. Romans invaded
the country, back in the hay day, expressly for the gold in this area. The Roman triumph is the theme of Trajan's Column
in Rome. There are mine networks stretching out underground the entire region, some even older than the Roman ones.
This soon to be crater, is a significant slice of history.
Politicians are struggling to sell what's left of the country, with former Communist party members still pulling the admini-
strative strings. The Gabriel Corporation Crisis is a final drop in a cup all too full. The Danube Delta's soon to be sold, parts
of the Black Sea coast are already property of Chevron and if turmoil continues there'll be a wave of exodus.
At the end of the day, all the corporate craters and political decay will be left to the ordinary "low-life" citizen to clean up.
Unfortunately we're all too comfortable sweeping reality under the rug.
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| Our government assures us that our future is in good hands with Gabriel Resources.Here's a cinematographic insight, detail- ing both camps' opinions on the project. Also, a great article (in Romanian) with a ton of sollutions to Romania's golden crisis. The article is written by a Romanian employee of the World Bank in Washington, a strong opponent of the mining scheme. |
Sleep tight dear Romanians!
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The Romanian government recently approved a law granting Rosia Montana Gold Corp. the right to start exploiting gold in the Carpathian mountains. The law was deemed of national importance, even though the contents of the contract between the Romanian state and the Corporation have not been disclosed to the public. This project will be the largest and most dangerous of its kind in Europe and the state will only obtain 6% of the gold exploits, while the above mentioned corporation will also uncover galium and silver, amongst other national resources. So far most of the country's dreaming about hell-knows-what-kind-of-a-pink-peachy-future as the Corporation has monopole on all television channels in Romania (as they've bought them over and played their tear-jerking commercials during prime-time). Here is a clearer outlook on the situation, in English & here's the Romanian translation from a Romanian member of the European Parlament |
Teleleu
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| Been calling up a variety of créateurs and creatures to show-case their sketchbooks for Vice magazine Romania. What was supposed to be a weekly dose of my dreary works, later oozed into this egregious collection of notable specimina from the local illustration/comics/visual arts fauna. |
while we whistle
working on While we wait #3, hectic as usual. if you want to check the mutant results of this experiment tune in for the launch during Noaptea Galeriilor here! Undeva pe Strada Amzei la nr. 5, lângă pizzeria dinspre Calea Victoriei.
movable and detachable improvisation i made for tonight's exhibition of customized boards at Ne placa
ce faci. started out as a ceremonial mask inspired by Oceanic and American-Indian artwork, went through
Pitagora's pentagram propeller and culminated in a scale of mystical opposition and ballance. well, you
catch my dizzy drift...there was a whole lot of metaphysical mechanics involved ;)
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| We're too busy queueing for a Happy Meal to realize what we've left behind. All the pictures above were shot at The Natural History and Archeology Museum in Constanța. Sau despre cum suntem prea preocupați cu inte- grarea în finit să ne mai uităm înapoi . Când timpul se măsoară în bani nu ne mai permitem să stăm pe gânduri decât în rate. |
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Shit-squirting is the preferred sport of politics. Unlike your average game of mud-fighting, the traditional crap-tossing is back on all Romanian TV stations. Same old shit's as fresh today as it was back in Basquiat's time. This turn round it's party A drowning party B in manure. And even though the popular Antena 3 TV channel's basking in prime-time glory, whilst sinking former president Basescu's shit-ship, its affiliation to the CNN network doesn't smell like dandelions either. Basescu should've drowned long ago, but hey, i guess his slow demise makes a grander come-back for Iliescu's fan club at USL and turns former prime minister Bombonel Năstase into a national hero, through his recent incarcera- tion (at Basescu's request). This has been one of the toughest posts for me because day in day out all my family and friends seem to be discussing are the upcoming elections. I'll vote on Sunday but i'm afraid that Romania's still in the midsts of the familiar ball game between the U.S.A., Russia and the E.U. regardless of a Basescu, Iliescu or Antonescu. Rosia Montana, i expect, might still get blasted off the face of the map, but anyway...perhaps Arthur C. Clark's quote, from Jawaharlal Nehru, makes more sense than my scato-scented ramblings. |
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