Syndicate: subREAL - Interviewing Helsinki

[calin dan <calin@euronet.nl>]

subREAL's most recent project, "INTERVIEWING THE CITIES - Helsinki", opened
on January 31 and is on view at the gallery of the International Center for
Contemporary Arts (ICCA) Bucuresti.
A rich selection of the project is printed in the the latest issue of the
cutting edge Romanian art magazine "Balkon". Officially lauched on the same
occasion, "Balkon" no. 5 focuses on Finnish state of the art cultural
affairs, and is published with support form the foundations SINDAN (Cluj-
Bucuresti) and FRAME (Helsinki). (English version  is included)

For co-ordinates of gallery, program, opening times and other info -
irina@icca.ro

For Balkon-related issues -
redactia@balkon.ro

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INTERVIEWING THE CITIES
- subREAL -

A sequel to the projects "The Art History Archive" and "Serving Art",
"Interviewing The Cities" aims at documenting private histories in relation
with institutions (political, cultural) and sites (architectural, natural).
The project is structured in three steps; main medium - b & w photography;
main strategy - interaction with people and environments. The outcome is a
subjective record to certain ways of building private and collective
memory, of defining human identities and the way they relate to
institutional representations of power politics.
The fulfillment of the project depends on the support of local art
communities and institutions.

Steps:
1. "Re-enacting....". A series of double portraits of "visual communities"
(artists, curators, critics, collectors, architects, etc.). Using the
semiotic filter of technical photography, "Re-enacting...." recycles the
knowledge from the "Serving Art" series as a procedure for documenting the
role of the human factor within the art mechanisms.
2. "Framing..." An exploration of urbanism, as manifest in the historical
development of representational buildings, cityscapes, parks etc. And a
visual research on the relation between nature and city through landscape
design. Inspired by the clich?s of institutional tourism, the series is
illustrating the connections between architecture/natural habitat and Power