Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

The main character of the story is a red two dimensional model of a tractor that during all the duration of the film is travelled by the artists into a relocated landscape and than into the city of Iasi, Romania. At unforeseen moments in time, the tractor is witnessing a lunch with the artists or it has a couple encounters, more or less violent, with two monuments in the city: The Independece Statue and the Monuments for the victims of the Communism. On the sound track one can listen obsessive excerpts of the Romanian Television in 1989 live broadcasted and than taped by an anonymous. The tape was found 25 years later on the flea market and it`s sound is overlapped with sounds generated by an analogue low-fi synthesizer.

Dan Acostioaei (born 1974) lives and works in Iaşi, Romania. He is a visual artist and he holds a teaching position at University of Arts ”George Enescu” in Iaşi. Alongside a group of artists and philosophers from Iasi and felow visual artist Matei Bejenaru, Acostioaei is a founding member of Vector Association. Since 2001 this artist run institution promoted and supported the local emerging contemporary art scene and organised the Periferic Biennial in Iasi, Romania. Acostioaei`s works focus on the identity models of the Romanian society in transition and on the ideological boundaries between the economic sphere and the conditions of artistic production within former Eastern Bloc. His projects were exhibited în One Sixth of the Earth - Ecologies of Image, MUSAC, Leon, Spain (2012), Transitland: videoart in Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2010), Illuminations, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London, U.K. (2007). The visual artist and independent curator, Florin Bobu was born in 1978 in Tecuci (Romania) and lives in Lasi (Romania). He has a degree from the Academy of Visual Art and Design (The Netherlands) and has been involved in several contemporary art events in Rotterdam, Munster and Antwerp. Cristina David (born 1979) started her artistic training at the Art Academy in Bucharest and completed her MDA at the Art Academy in Bergen. Video art is her prime choice of artistic medium. Cristina also works with photography and installations. Her often humorous texts and images are related. The stories come from day-to-day life. In her texts, she blends her personal experiences and thoughts. Cristina David has said that her stories often emerge from her impatience at the slow motion of daily life. LIVIA PANCU (born in 1980) is a curator based in Iași, România. Since 2005 she has been a member of Vector Association, and, from 2011 to 2012, its director. She is currently one of the Co-directors of tranzit.ro, part of the international network tranzit.org. She graduated the Curating Contemporary Art department of the Royal College of Art in 2009. In April 2012, Vertical Site (with Florin Bobu and George Doros), an ongoing project based on her PhD research (The Socialist Decorations and the Process of Thermic Rehabilitation of the Housing Blocks Facades build between 1950 and 1990 in Romania), was launched and curated by the 1+1 association. Most recently she has written for the Self-Organised Subjects anthology, Open Editions, Stine Hebert & Anne Szefer Karlsen (Eds.): The Almost Institution (2013). Her research is based on understanding the different internal mechanics of contemporary art organizations located in cities that are not governmental or financial capitals. Currently she is preoccupied on how to inherit or dissolve institutional heritage.