Paid 25 RON (about 10 US dollars) to the man in charge of cleaning from my block of flats to help me carry a couch down the stairs from my apartment. This was a piece of furniture I had been sleeping on since I was 14 or 15. I bought a new bed two years ago and the couch was no longer used, being stored, springs broken, in the living room. It is the place where I have lived the most intense reveries and fears, but also the quiet afternoons together with the one I loved. More here.
Remade a performance by Allan Kaprow in a deserted park (Parcul Sticlarilor) on Vergului Street in Bucharest, accompanied by a girl whom I had talked to about love some time ago. More here.
My first solo show. Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. The final stage of a one month residency at SCCA Ljubljana.
The subject of my residency was the alternative cultural centre of Metelkova, a squat from the center of the city, created in 1993 within an abandoned military base that used to belong to the Yugoslav army, that retreated from Slovenia. My response to the given place was negative, because its visual aspect and the ideology connected to independence and autonomy seemed unacceptable.
Projection, 1,80 x 0,4 m mirror, red paint on wall, 2 x 3,5 m styrofoam modules painted in the colors of the rainbow, acrylic on styrofoam. Also produced a photo slideshow mounted on a TV set and a small 5,5 x 5,5 cm painting, acrylic on canvas, which are not documented in the photos above. More here.
Built a light installation for the old lighthouse in Mangalia, a small seaside resort on the Black Sea in Romania. Two numbers, 9 and 5, 2 m x 1 m each, built out of neon fixtures. The installation was connected to the electricity from the series of electric lights on the pier near the lighthouse.
In the evening at 9 pm the sun would set and the lights on the pier switched on along with my light installation. In the morning at 5 am the sun would rise and the installation switched off along with the other lights on the pier. The on/off cycle of the lights on the pier was controlled by a light sensor installed on one of the electric light posts. I mounted the number 9 on the western side of the lighthouse facing the sun set and the number 5 towards the sea facing the sun rise. More here.
On the 8th of June 2008, I recorded for three minutes the clouds that were passing before my window at the fifth floor of the block of flats where I was living on Dolenkjska Street nr. 40, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The youtube compression diminished the quality of the video too much, so in order to see the movie you have to download it from here.
A hundred photocopies from of an article about the ninja from Celje, taken from the 27th of August 1998 issue of the newspaper Novi Trednik, Celje, Slovenia. The copies were abandoned on Delavska Street, at number 20, where the ninja used to live before his house was demolished and replaced by an industrial storage facility. The 24th of May 2008 was a windy day, so the A3 sheets of paper were scattered on the street. You can read a translation here. More images here.
Baked a delicious cake in a tray shaped like the foundation of two warehouses from the town of Celje, Slovenia, that will be demolished in the near future to make way for a supermarket. The cake was eaten by people attending the Thursday evening dinner at Likovni Salon, between 19.00 and 20.00 hours, during the Admission Free 2008 festival of interventions in public spaces. I only explained the meaning of the shape to one person. More here.
Cut the wire that was supplying electricity to the fourteen advertising panels for the Slovenian army, placed in front of the city hall of the town of Celje, Slovenia, during the night between Sunday the 18th and Monday the 19th of May, around 2.30 am. I expected the panels to stay in the public space a long time after my intervention. To my surprise, during the morning of the 19th of May all the panels were loaded in a truck and taken away and the small public square became a free walking area once more. My contribution to the Vstop Prost / Admission Free 2008 festival of interventions in public spaces, whose chosen theme was 'forbidden'. More here.
Half of the windows from a room painted yellow. A deserted XIXth century mill in the town of Celje, Slovenia. More here.
For two weeks I wrote a diary. Each evening I posted an envelope with that day's text in one mailbox in the town of Celje, Slovenia. Each of the 14 addresses was chosen from a different street, so that the number of the street would match the date of the respective day. The envelopes contain the handwritten version of at least one page typed in word on the computer, for each day. All of the texts are in Romanian, so that the Slovenian recipients cannot understand what I have written. More here.
Round stones taken from the earth layers near the foundation of a demolished factory and arranged by size, in a circle of one meter in diameter on the site of the demolition. The shape of the stones indicates the fact that they were a product of erosion present in river or creek beds. More here.
My mobile phone's speaker was no longer working. Before abandoning it I sent one blank sms to everybody in the contact list. It took 62 minutes to send 176 messages to all of the 176 numbers. Six of them were not transmitted, as the numbers had changed. I received 8 calls and 23 messages to which I have not replied. The messages were sent on April 3 2008, after midnight, between 12.03 and 1.05.
The sad and angry crowd on the underground was making me anxious on my way to work. So I decided to carry an apple with me for one month during the journey between my house and my job. When I stood up I held it in my pocket. When I sat down I used to hold it with both hands. From the end of March to the end of April 2008. More here.
Black molotow graffiti marker on billboard. Romanian wording ('invizibil' = 'invisible'). On the rooftop of an underground station in Bucharest. More images here.
A piece of ornament from the House of the People (currently the Palace of the Parliament) in Bucharest, Romania, dismantled from the wall surrounding the building and sent by post to Kyrgyzstan. Plaster molding, 15 cm long x 12 cm wide x 5.5 cm high, 1 kg in weight. Read the statement here.
Empty pack of Kent Silver cigarettes, text added in Photoshop. Romanian wording. The familiar warnings related with tobacco smoking were replaced with a personal story. The following is not an exact translation, but a brief summary.
During one evening, I was eating in the kitchen and heard an owlet howl between the blocks of flats. It scared me a bit, as my grandparents were superstitious and once told me that owlets howl only when someone is about to die. I chewed my food trying to forget about this old superstition. Then I went out of the kitchen and turned off the lights and closed the door after me.
Outline of a street that was demolished by the Communist regime in the 80s. A number of 52 snow mounds with 52 candles lit inside them. Photo by Tudor Prisacariu. More here.
Four wooden poles, string, snow, four sheets of paper in plastic foils. Romanian wording ("atentie, cad turturi!" / "beware of falling icicles"). The intervention was 130 meters away from the nearest roof. More here.
Floor plan of a church that was demolished during the Communist regime. An area of the city razed to the ground in the 80s. 120 canldes lit in the snow. A remake of a Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor performance in a different setting, with different materials. Photo by Tudor Prisacariu. More here.
Obor tram bridge (in construction), 26 glass globes from a deserted glass factory, 26 candles.
