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Build Yourself a Small Situation Without a Future: Atelier 35 Bucharest

“Build Yourself a Small Situation Without Future: Atelier 35 Bucharest” is a long term collaborative research and exhibition project revisiting the history of Atelier 35 in Bucharest, Romania, a platform for emerging artists established by the Romanian Artists’ Union in the ‘60s.
Starting from the dialogue with the history of Atelier 35, the exhibition project ”Build Yourself a Small Situation Without Future: Atelier 35 Bucharest” aims at triggering acts of reflection and experimental engagement with the past activity of a vibrant place. At the core of the project is the belief that turning back to take from the past elements that are missing today, may help stimulate micro- changes in the contexts in which we are working in, but also to keep alternative histories alive.

10.10.24 Vernissage Situation No. 1 / No. 2, Atelier 35 Bukarest
14.10.24 Official reception / Storytelling evening, Atelier 35 Bukarest
19.10.24 Exhibition walk with Alexandra Moț, Atelier 35 Bukarest
24.10.24 Start of interventions of the young artists, Atelier 35 Bukarest
02.11.24 Vernissage Situation No. 3, Atelier 35 Bukarest
03.11.24 Exhibition walk with Magda Cârneci, Atelier 35 Bukarest
13.11.24 Final event / break performances, Atelier 35 Bukarest

Supported by: Erste Foundation, Goethe-Institut București, Institutul Francez, Uniunea Artiștilor Plastici din România, Swiss Embassy and Swiss-Romanian Chamber of Commerce

Media Partners: Revista ARTA, Zeppelin, Radio România Cultural, Modernism.ro, Propagarea

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(In)discrets

(In)discrets is a concert in the midst of the living, a comprehensive and immersive reverie about the fragility and vulnerability of the earth's soil.
 Zug-based composer Cyrill Lim and Geneva-based composer Noémie Favennec-Brun (CH) collaborate with textile artist Louise Hochet (FR) to create a concert installation that combines musical, sonic, visual and textile creations to question our connection to the earth and our collective desire for reparation and revitalisation.
In just three generations, the professions of farmer, rancher and forester have continued to change.
In just three generations, we have collectively lost our relationship with the earth, farming and horticulture, whereas our ancestors devoted much of their time to them.
In modern agriculture, our soils are impoverished and damaged by the combination of mechanisation and chemicals: overworked areas suffer and gradually turn into deserts. Formerly fertile soils become clouds of dust. 
This project aims to open up a dialogue between generations in order to question our heritage together. To create a space to re-establish relationships between generations and their actions, to invest the sensitive, the intimate, the oral tradition.
It aims to create links between music, textiles, knowledge of the living and the passage of time, the power of gestures and their transmission across generations.

February-April 2024 - Eco-educational workshops
9 May 2024 - Premiere, Basel KHaus
24 May 2024 - Concert as part of the colloquium Arts, écologies, radicalités, Mains d'oeuvres, Paris (version for solo cello and electronics).
29 April 2025 - Eve, scène universitaire, Le Mans - Concert with subsequent scientific mediation

Supported by the canton of Zug