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24/5/2012

Punk, Ash and Holocaust

Club Electro Putere, Craiova

Participants: Punk Movement from Craiova, Cristian Comosteanu, Romeo Tiberiade

Curator Electroputere

"Punk, Ash and Holocaust" is a project that highlights events and situations displaying different modalities of subjectivisation, freed from any form of cultural fetishism or artistic engagement.

This project - exhibition documents three situations deeply rooted in the local history of the city of Craiova (Romania) which create broader scopes of interrogation. "Punk": in the years that followed the 1989 revolution, a couple of hundred young people form an organized group trying to build an identity in a society devoid of role models and marred by a crisis at the level of social relationships. "Ash": Cristian Comosteanu is a young engineer who was forced after graduating from university to get a job as a watchman at an industrial lake where all the residues coming from a thermoelectric central station were discarded. In order to put up with the difficult working conditions, with isolation and marginalization, he regularly documents, using the medium of photography, the various transformations that the lake and the surrounding landscape undergo. "Holocaust": Romeo Tiberiade is a Rroma citizen who wanted to solve a personal problem related to the history of his community by making a documentary film based on the testimonies of those who survived the Holocaust.

These three initiatives can be understood not only as modalities of subjectivisation in relation to the contemporary socio-political space but also as ways of revaluating the past. They can also be considered as forms of resistance that help individuals and entire communities define themselves as subjects placed at the fringes of knowledge and power regime.

Electroputere is an artistic group based in Romania and founded in 2011 by Alexandru Niculescu and Adrian Bojenoiu . The group embraces an artistic practice primarily inspired by the local context, situated at the limit between artistic production and research. By problematising the status of contemporary culture, Electroputere aims at decoding the existent forms of expression and communication in order to produce alternative cultural discourses.

Club Electro Putere is a Romanian centre for contemporary culture founded in 2009 by Adrian Bojenoiu and Alexandru Niculescu. CEP is located in the building where the cultural club of the independent trade union of Electroputere factory is (the locomotive and high-tension engines founded in 1949). The building was built in the 70s in order to perform cultural activities for the plant's working class, functioning at the same time as a control and propaganda platform of the communist party by 1989, the year of revolution.
Starting with 1989, the cultural activities of the centre began dramatically decreasing leading to its close down in 1995 (the year when people's preference for the medias and entertainment become more visible)
From 1995 until 2000, the space was being used as a bar, night club and fitness center, it was closed down until 2009, since then, the building acquired the status of a contemporary art centre.
The CEP activity is focused on inquiring into contemporary human practices concentrated on cultural manifestations. The purpose of the centre is to enable inter-human cultural exchanges by connecting different levels of reality and expression. The cultural activities of CEP question the status of contemporary culture having the aim of decoding the existing expression and communication forms in order to produce and promote alternative narrative structures.
From 2009, the CEP projects have mainly followed the artistic activity in Romania. At the end of 2009, CEP had initiated the Romanian Cultural Resolution project whose purpose was to question the cultural discourse of the Romanian art of the last two decades, including the participation of the most important artists, critics and contemporary Romanian curators.

Opening: Friday, May 25, 7 pm.

Club Electro Putere
Centre For Contemporary Culture Calea Bucuresti 56 200515 Craiova
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