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The Moldavians are born

Igor Mocanu is PhD student at the Art History and Theory Department from the National University of Arts in Bucharest. He has published on different platforms, such as CriticAtac, IDEA and he is an editor of Arta magazine, published by the Artists Union in Romania. He curated the project „Revisited Avantgarde. European Avantgarde in the National Film Archive of Romania” (2012-2014).

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castIgor Mocanu
cameraEduard Constantin
soundEduard Constantin
editingEduard Constantin
translationRaluca Voinea
categoryLectures
published12. 6. 2015
languageČesky / English
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The Moldavians are born
We are presenting the monumental commission for the Iranian Shah in Teheran year 1977. Before the contract was unexpectedly terminated a year later due to the coup in Iran, Czechoslovakia managed to make great profit and the then Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal acknowledged the economic contribution of Art Centrum, which was transferred in 1977 under the Federal Ministry of Foreign Trade and was thus saved from being closed down.
The two-year artistic research project deals with the role of the protest image and its possible impact on real social, political, and economic changes. Through its individual outputs, the project offers multiple perspectives on the use of visual or audiovisual documentation as a possible emancipatory tool of the people.