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new friends – get to know the Vector group! we were hosted by their gallery, spent a few evenings at their favorite hang-out, and visited the neighborhood in which they are involved with one of their most serious projects: cARTier. Vector is a group of artists and intellectuals who maintain a gallery space, organize an international biennial festival entitled Periferic, generate and sustain a local discourse around notions of the periphery (manifested, in part, through an up-coming publication). cARTier is a four-year pilot project in Romania in which this group works with tenants of apartment buildings in the Tatarasi neighborhood to develop collaborative, location-specific projects.
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rozalinda conducted a presentation and a performance workshop on saturday, from 3PM to 7:30 PM. 23 of those who came to the presentation stayed for the workshop, which we think is a huge success. the workshop was developed around a series of instructions involving impossible tasks, which participants were given 60 seconds to attempt. there was no talking, no consulting, no time to think, plan, to decide and only then to act. decisions were made as we engaged with our tasks, and not before.
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