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CALIN DAN Memory Tags (A Lounge)
31 August – 14 October (extended). Exhibition
24 - 31 August. City Tags Workshop 
4pm Friday 31 August. Artist Talk |
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Calin Dan's mode of art resists easy categorisation. Not quite cinema yet filmic in it's references and execution, the audio-visual narratives engage the viewer in stories embedded in an Eastern European, post-Soviet perspective. The stories are often culturally unfamiliar, yet entice the viewer to stay and watch a little longer with ordinary 'in-the-world' imagery and situations - a tendency the artist has tagged Emotional Architecture. Dan writes that his videos "are tactically planned and brought into shape as film productions, but strategically they focus on the cracks that a film leaves open and unfilled, with uncertainties and vibrations of everyday life and its ambiguous poetic values".
A selection of Dan's video works will be installed at the Experimental Art Foundation from late August 'til early October 2007, including works not seen before in Australia. Calin Dan will also lead a workshop titled ‘City Tags’. Art students and artists from South Australia and interstate will take part in the workshop. In keeping with his ongoing interest in ephemeral architecture, urban sub-cultures and zones of latent conflict, Dan and the workshop participants will examine the city via tagging practices and cultures, through video, still image, and audio explorations. See below for more details.
Artist Talk and Lecture
Experimental Art Foundation
4pm Friday 31 August
Calin Dan will talk about his work and Irina Cios, Director of the International Centre for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, will give a lecture on eastern European contemporary art.
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image credits from top, Calin Dan Trip 2006,video still; Sample City 2003, video still; RA, 2000, video still |
Calin Dan
City Tags Workshop
24-31 August 2007
Amsterdam-based Romanian art critic, curator and artist Cãlin Dan was in residence at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, 22 August-1 September.
As part of his residency, Cãlin Dan lead a focused six-day workshop that examined the city (Adelaide) via tagging practices and cultures through video, still image, and audio explorations. Thematics include ephemeral architecture, sub-cultures, and zones of urban conflict.
Thirteen South Australian and interstate artists took part in the workshop which was produced in association with the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, and assisted by the Helpmann Academy. Calin Dan worked closely with each of the artists in one-on-one engagements and together as a group.
Some of the work produced from the workshop…
(From left) Margit Brünner, made 'atmo. port dock 2 ' (video 03:06 mp4). Click image to view (video will open in a smaller window). image Margit Brunner, video still from atmo
Tristan Louth-Robins has a daily report and images and sound on his blog. Once it loads scroll down to the entry under 'soniferous sub-sites'. image Tristan Louth-Robbins, City Tags workshop, day 2, still from blog <tristanlouthrobins.blogspot.com/2007/08/eaf-city-tags-27807-day-2.html> |
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Calin Dan is assisted by Hand Milked Visions Foundation, Amsterdam, Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest. Irina Cios is assisted by the Mobility Fund of the Romanian Ministry of Culture. City Tags workshop is produced in association with the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia and assisted by The Helpmann Academy. The EAF is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the South Australian Government through Arts SA. The EAF is also supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. |
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