Emotional architecture 3
Between September 2005 and May 2007 Călin Dan has been involved in a collaboration with the inmates from the Colibaşi Penitentiary (Romania), in the frame of a project commissioned to him by the Office of the Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands (Atelier Rijksbouwmeester). The first outcome of this process was a theatre performance reflecting on the human condition of the criminals in modern Romania. Written and directed by the artist, the play Carne / Cane was performed in May 2007 by a group of inmates for an enthusiastic audience, on the stage of the theatre Odeon, in Bucharest. The second outcome is Wings for Dogs (2009), a video-essay about the contemporary perception of timeless themes such as responsibility, crime, destiny and punishment. MNAC presents the third step of the project in form of a video installation concentrating the content of about 60 hours of conversations with the inmates. The exhibition brings in the rooms of the former Palace of Ceausescu the stories of the victims of his regime; the videos are actually dynamic books where text and images compose a time-based puzzle. Props from the theater performance and beds from the overcrowded dormitories of the penitentiary are set in dialogue with the luxurious decoration of the walls and floors.~~The publication Emotional Architecture 3 has been launched in the exhibition space on January 27 2011. The book has 250 pages with texts and photographs documenting the research in the penitentiary, the collaborative work with the inmates (including the preliminary interviews), the script for the theater play, and the final outcome of the process.~
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Emotional architecture 3
Between September 2005 and May 2007 Călin Dan has been involved in a collaboration with the inmates from the Colibaşi Penitentiary (Romania), in the frame of a project commissioned to him by the Office of the Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands (Atelier Rijksbouwmeester). The first outcome of this process was a theatre performance reflecting on the human condition of the criminals in modern Romania. Written and directed by the artist, the play Carne / Cane was performed in May 2007 by a group of inmates for an enthusiastic audience, on the stage of the theatre Odeon, in Bucharest. The second outcome is Wings for Dogs (2009), a video-essay about the contemporary perception of timeless themes such as responsibility, crime, destiny and punishment. MNAC presents the third step of the project in form of a video installation concentrating the content of about 60 hours of conversations with the inmates. The exhibition brings in the rooms of the former Palace of Ceausescu the stories of the victims of his regime; the videos are actually dynamic books where text and images compose a time-based puzzle. Props from the theater performance and beds from the overcrowded dormitories of the penitentiary are set in dialogue with the luxurious decoration of the walls and floors.~~The publication Emotional Architecture 3 has been launched in the exhibition space on January 27 2011. The book has 250 pages with texts and photographs documenting the research in the penitentiary, the collaborative work with the inmates (including the preliminary interviews), the script for the theater play, and the final outcome of the process.~
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Emotional architecture 3
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