CALL FOR RID

atelier de pancarte pentru demonstratiile batranilor/elor in cadrul proiectului RID

cu Sara Lehn (DE) & Stefan Tiron (RO)

Invitati speciali: Akira&Nae (Sefeu)
impreuna cu persoane varstince din cartierul Rahova
& participanti la proiectul Varsta a Patra de la Caminul Moses Rosen

Atelierul va avea loc in perioada 18-20 noiembrie 2011 intre 11:00 - 17:00.

@subRahova

Strada Sergent Nutu Ion, nr. 2

Daca vreți să participați vă rugam să ne trimiteți un email pe adresa de contact: mimodrama [at] gmail.com.

Va invitam sa intram in actiune pe o tema amanata si nerezolvata. Cum putem pleda cauza batranilor si batranelor in societatea romaneasca actuala din perspectiva precariatului cultural? Cum putem contracara estetica dominanta a corpului tanar si energetic? Ce mijloace vizuale avem la dispozitie? Mai este posterbombingul o solutie in jungla marketingul de gherila? Cum arata astazi un comix activist?

Fie ca vrem fie ca nu, unii dintre noi traim cu sprijinul parintilor si rudelor in varsta. Cu toate astea putem vorbi astazi de un dictat al economiei de piata de a fetisiza tineretul invingator ca reprezentant al prospetimii, adaptabilitatii si flexibilitatii spiritului competitiv. Noua economie traieste din capacitatea de a consuma si transforma un corp tanar intr-un corp batran, la fel cum stie sa transforme un produs nou intr-un produs depasit. In paralel, cresterea economica si industria publicitara raman investite intr-o cultura a tineretii fara batranete, a obrazului fara riduri, a lifestyle-urilor extreme si a bunurilor cu termen de garantie din ce in ce mai limitat.

Toti cauta angajati tineri, artisti tineri, iar curatorii par alesi pe criterii neotenice din ce in ce mai pronuntate. In acelasi timp pensia a devenit un fruct oprit, si putini dintre noi mai spera cu adevarat la o batranete fericita si lipsita de griji. Dat fiind ca prezentul nostru este intim si demografic legat de un posibil pappy boom si mammy boom, consideram ca viitorul Europei apartine batranilor. In Romania de azi tinerii stau si batranii protesteaza in timp ce casele de asigurari ne ameninta cu noua generatie care imbatraneste. Am vrea sa urmarim impreuna de ce epuizarea, rigiditatea si anchilozarea au devenit termeni cheie care ilustreaza direct cat de profunde sunt panicile si psihozele gerontofobe ale sistemului economic si politic actual.

Sara Lehn, agit-prop berlinez, postere si organizare de activitati contraculturale la West Germany (Kreuzberg), coordonare de conferinte progresiste la Interflugs (UdK Berlin) http://www.interflugs.de/en/, co-conspiratoare la revista Panic Button (Slovacia), participanta la Sieg of Sonne Orakel (SoSO) http://www.anfanggutallesgut.net/.

Stefan Tiron, traficant de informatie, membru F.R.R. http://aerobix.blogspot.com/2010/10/frr-in-english.html , bursier www.monochrom.at, initiator Cozzzzzzzzmonautica, colaborator in cadrul proiectului de ecologie urbana/biologie invaziva www.ghettopalm.tumblr.com

Akira, membru fondator comix SEFEU, celebru mangaka din Brasov/Intorsura Buzaului, contributor la primul fanzin Manga.Inc, revista Otaku Magazine si CosplayGen, un lucrator neobosit intru zamislirea benzilor desenate http://dinauntru.blogspot.com/

Nae studiaza arhitectura sediilor de supereroi, initiaza revista COAPSE, membru fondator comix SEFEU, pictor de biserici, contributor Manga.Inc, Otaku Magazine, un lucrator neobosit intru zamislirea benzilor desenate http://sefeu.blogspot.com/

Varsta4 este un proiect de arta comunitara desfasurat impreuna cu rezidentii caminului de persoane varstnice "Moses Rosen", din august 2009 si coordonat de Paul Dunca, Alice Monica Marinescu, Mihaela Michailov, Katia Pascariu, David Schwartz. Programul se desfăşoară în parteneriat cu Căminul „Amalia şi şef Rabin dr. Moses Rosen” şi cu DASM – Direcţia de Ajutor Social şi Medical a Federaţiei Comunităţilor Evreieşti din România. Toţi artiştii antrenaţi în proiect lucrează pe bază de voluntariat. Pentru mai multe informatii: http://www.varstapatru.blogspot.com/

RID este un proiect initiat de Biroul de Cercetari Melodramatice, Stefan Tiron si Raluca Voinea impreuna cu Beate Köhler care va avea loc in perioada Noiembrie 2011-Mai 2012.

Proiect sprijinit de Goethe-Institut Bukarest.

Statement

Sometime in the 23rd century...the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything. There's just one catch: Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of carrousel.
Logan’s Run, directed by Michael Anderson, 1976

Today we are regulating the rigid borderlines of art ‘youthness’ on a daily basis with the help of in-built cultural expiration dates, artistic freshness certificates, forceful calls of up-to-dateness and a good dose of coercive dynamism. Biennials for example are always keen on trapping and showing off their youngest curators, or labeling themselves as exclusive and foremost dealers of “YOUNG” art. At the same time, the warranty of young or forever young is authenticated by universities, cultural institutes and mass-media.
The notion of youth/Jugend was a favourite example of the totalitarian systems and a symbol of the renewing capacity of a nation. The modernist project also relies on the concept of youth as a regenerative force involved in nurturing the triumphant dreams of progress and limitless growth.

The Workings of Youth
The vitality of the workforce is maintained by a ready supply of migrant workers, cheap labor and high birth rates. Exploitation in this sense is dependent on a perpetual supply of young bodies. Late capitalism needs to ensure a strict separation of age groups based on the temporal segmentation of life. A certain age group, for example under 30 is one of the desired engines of this lost productivity, renewable physical energy. Youth as a cellular concept identifies ageing as a biological process in which cells are failing to keep up with the ever increasing pace and acceleration of their environment. Thus, youth is just a selective and increasingly over-productive association of cellular automata powering our global economy.

The Arthritis of Youth
Youth has all the advantages it needs. Old age is only acceptable if it’s redefined as vintage. Vintage has come to signify the luster of preciousness, an anachronistic mark of distinction following the ultimate eviction of the old bodies from their newly recycled garments.
The threat of aging is an incentive of fearless consumerism - the only escape promised to a society with gerontophobic ideals. In the same way, the fear of wrinkled concepts drives the employment of a young creative class always ready to execute each time the necessary facelift.
However, the visual monopoly of the youth surfaced by advertising, magazine covers and popular TV shows, promoters of young talents, is countered by the unfaltering cultural gerontocracy. Old masters, professionals, experts and advisers serve in an army of moral guardians in charge of re-establishing our jumbled values.
In this context where age limits are constantly produced and enforced, where the biological expiration dates are the ultimate deadlines, we want to question these segmentations of life and the use of age as a tool of contemporary biopolitics.