Passing by
Organizer: Andrei Pripasu
Tutors: Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan, Maria Daria Oancea (studioBASAR), Tudor Elian
Guest: Alexandra Berdan
Team: Stanciu Razvan, Sescioreanu Alexandru, Radu-Mihai, Hodea Magda, Buzenche Sorin, Nistor Andreea, Alexandru Adina Diana, Toma Ionuţ Gabriel, Chisăliță Manuela, Atanasie Cosmin Mircea, Maftei Andrei, Raluca Gâlcă, Fetescu Claudia, Dobos Narcis, Bujoreanu Radu.
location: Alexandru Lăpuşneanu street, Iaşi, România
period: 12-17 Mai 2014
The workshop was initiated and coordinated by Andrei Pripasu; supported by Holver, Prima MG, Cărtureşti, ASAI and hosted in tranzit.ro/Iasi gallery space.
The workshop investigated areas found in the vicinity of some representational public spaces, places with a diffuse and ambiguous identity, placed at the periphery of the mental geography of the inhabitants. These anonymous territories function as transit and connection spaces, suspended between landmarks of the center and the rest of the city.
In the framework of the workshop we’ve tested on the spot ways of figure out the character and potential of such a species of public space, by actions of exploring, debating and lectures, followed by days of production, installation and organizing of a final event. Managed by the participants themselves, the event ‘Beyond Lăpuşneanu’ welcomed in the morning kids and parents to bring life into a playing corner of a green area bare of any public furniture. In the afternoon we’ve embarked into a walk around the flats, the passages, the places, its people and their stories, where we discovered from the drawings on the children stair, to the wish fountain, or the ruins of the iron castle and the invisible museum and the household of books, until the good hosts along the way. The day ended behind the Republica cinema, where ‘Those magnificent men and their flying machines’ - the movie that inaugurated the cinema back in 1958 - transformed the backdoor area in an open air amphitheater welcoming passersby, guests or neighbors from nearby flat
The destiny of some of the equipments produced in the workshop extended well beyond its closing, some surviving on their location, until their transformation, recycling or even relocation.
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