Arriving in Cluj Napoca on July 6
Edyta Mąsior – Foot steps and footages
On 10th of July 2013 in Cluj (Romania) nearby the crossroads of Septimiu Mureşan and Trandafirilor we saw an abandoned place. It was a place where creative power saved on celluloid films turned to be a reason for destructive narration with an unhabited place.
PS. Behind the broken window of the place a tennis game was played.
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Beáta Kolbašovská – Abandoned Treasure
Seydou Grépinet – Intolerable Cruelty
Jakub Pišek – Twins of Cluj
Beáta Kolbašovská – Fragments of Cemetery
Lujza Magova and Beáta Kolbašovská – White glove
Special guest: Barbara Nawrocka
During 20th century a train line called Silesia Cracoviana Karpathy stretched from Warsaw all the way to the Black sea, thus connecting Central Europe from its north part to the most southern one. During this period employees of the railway companies had a kind of privileged status in the society. This high ranking was symbolically embodied in the white gloves they have worn while performing tasks their job have required. We take this fact a step further combining white gloves with aristocratic waving during despatching of the train.
László Milutinovits – War Ends, Struggle Continues.
The Little Entente and Central Europe in the 1920s.
(Lecture at Fabrica de Pensule, 9th of July, 2013)
The present article is looking for answers for the following questions. Why and how the alliance called the ‘Little Entente’ was formed after the First World War? What were its aims? How these conditions influenced Hungary?
As the First World War was about the come to its end, the leading powers and other nations in Europe were preparing to draw the new borders of the continent. The new borders were especially in the focus of the attention of all in Central Europe, where the old Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was about to fall apart due to ethnic, political and social tensions. However, these phenomena appeared all over Europe – after the long 19th century’s imperialist-capitalist era it was a time of social revolution, finally successful national movements. And last, but not at least, the new political order also succeeded to gain space in Europe, as Russia became the first socialist-communist country, which made the ruling European bourgeois elite quite worried. While the winners of the WWI gathered together in Versailles for a peace conference, the struggle continued in Central Eastern Europe, in the battlefields and in the fields of diplomacy as well. The Russian Red Army was fighting the interventionist armies of Western Powers, the White Tsarist Russian Armies and the Armies of the newly re-born Poland at the same time. Parallel, the leading politicians and intellectuals of nations living under Austro-Hungarian rule (fully, like Czechs and Slovaks, or partly, like Romanians and Serbians) were preparing to take steps in diplomacy and internal politics to gain at least autonomy, or even independence form the ramshackle old Monarchy. Key characters of these political and diplomatic manoeuvers were the Czech Edvard Beneš and Tomáš Masaryk, who later became not only the first President and Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia but also leading personalities of a new alliance to be called the “Little Entente”.
Kubriel & Łukasz Jastrubczak – Concert at Fabrica de Pensule, 8th of July, 2013
Jarosław Wójtowicz and Joanna Bednarczyk – Rendez-vous. Cluj-Napoca, 9th of July, 2013
According to the ideas of rendez-vous we arranged the meetings in our Mechanisms team. The proposal was, to choose in the blind chance the partners to meet in the different places of Cluj, chosen randomly by Joanna on the map. Only women could make a choice. If some of them would like to, they could choose one more partner. There were either couples and triangles. Rendez-vous gave the opportunity to know better each other and, by the way, to take the photos and shoot the short videos from the places of meetings.
Tomas Matauko, Jakub Pišek and Julie Chovin
How to drive an invisible car :
Camera and Editing : Tomas Matauko, Sound and Actor : Jakub Pišek, Actor and driver : Julie Chovin
László Milutinovits, Cristina David and Jarosław Wójtowicz
Exploring cities, finding borders and coincidencies
Text and pictures László Milutinovits.
In Cluj, me and Cristina and Jarek visited explored a small street near the main square. Mainly buildings of the famous Babes-Bolyai
University (A bilingual Romanian-Hungarian institution) are situated in the street, which is called after a French geographer.
His name was Emmanuel de Martonne (1 April 1873 – 24 July 1955). By some unbelievable coincidence, as I found out later,
he participated in the Paris Peace Conference about which I gave a lecture the day after in Fabrica. According to Wikipedia,
„during the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, he was an adviser of Minister of Foreign Affairs André Tardieu and Prime
Minister Georges Clemenceau. De Martonne was also secretary of the Comité D’études, which worked on fixing boundary issues following the war, especially in Romania and the Balkans.
He was familiar with Central Europe and Romania, as he had conducted studies in the Southern Carpathians earlier in his life.”
Otherwise, kids use the nearby square for skateboarding, in the shade of the statues of wise ancient historical figures.
So much about wisdom and universities. Meantime, a few wise-looking university people of position left the elegantly furnished kanteen
of the building, one of them wearing old-school white shoes from the ’70s. Big car, they also had.
Joanna Bednarczyk – Nils Clouzeau – Guillaume du Boisbaudry
Photo Nils Clouzeau
Łukasz Jastrubczak, Seydou Grépinet, Simon Quéheillard, Beáta Kolbašovská and Lujza Magova
Theory of relativity (Einstein street)
Roman Dziadkiewicz – MUNUS
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Roman Dziadkiewicz is carrying his box full of all his things on the streets of Cluj, then posts it to Krakow
Vasi Hîrdo – Feet
Valérie de Saint-Do – Random Encounter
On Sunday, July 7th, I was walking with Guillaume in the very beautiful botanical garden in Cluj.
I just found a small sculpture, made of wooden bows, and told Guillaume : it looks a lot like the work of Denis Tricot, a artist friend of mine in France.
Then we saw a big installation, and it is, in fact, the work of Denis Tricot ! Denis has been working for one year with Scena urbana (a group of architects) in Cluj, and will be back in september an in may 2014 to show a work in the pedestrial street ( a sound performance in his intallation, which is all about tension of the wood material). He has also worked with Miki, a member of the Fabrica de pensule.
I appreciate his work for a long time, but didn’t know about his projects in Cluj and it was a complete surprise to meet his installations.
The kind of random encounters and winks I like.
Tomas Matauko – Roma’s portraits
Valérie de Saint-Do – Brainstorming
To work together. To make it collective.
This is the whole object of Mechanisms for an entente.
How can we achieve this ? Which protocols can we imagine, to make 25 artists, searchers, writers, individuals cooperate in a collective work?
We talked about it for somewhat two hours in a kind of improvised meeting, in the French Institute of Cluj. And a lot of interesting ideas have been put on the table.
A masterwork of them was « game ». Which is amusing is that this topic derives from misunderstanding, or at least from playing on words. In french, the word « jeu » (« game ») is also used to describe the little dysfunctions or imperfections of a mechanism.
So, what kind of games could we impulse to put some grease in Mechanisms ?
Many were suggested. For instance, why could we not begin to work in small teams of three persons, designed at random, then join them in teams of six, then in two team of 12, etc ?
Also, many of us want to make interview or portraits of every participant of the group. Why could’nt we decide that everyone has to make one portrait (with every kind of medium, text, video, sound) of a participant, chosen at random ?
We precisely discussed about the best medium to do this, or to commit ourselves into a dialogue. Some of us think that it could be relevant to try « blind dialogues ».
A other keyword was recurrent in the discussion : « random ». Just let the events and exchange act on us day after day and make cooperation spontaneous. But will it operate with the 25 of us ?
The discussion is to be continued…
PS. The next day, Marta had a very good suggestion at breakfast : create a little choir to sing Mechanisms anthem. Thinking of it, to sing would be an excellent mean to break the language barrier. I imagine that everyone of us has already sung in a language he or she didn’t speak. So let’s sing together in Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, French… and more, even out of tunes !
László Milutinovits – Learn.Erdély!
The so called „kopjafa” is a traditional grave-sign of an ethnic group of Hungarians called the „székely” in Transylvania
(Hungarian: Erdély or German: Siebenbürgen). Székelys (Romanian: Secui, German: Szekler, Latin: Siculi) used to serve as the borderguards of Medieval and early modern Hungary, and they still form a majority in certain parts of South Eastern Transylvania.
There are a number of „kopjafa” to be found in the cemetery in the center of Cluj (Hungarian: Kolozsvár), where the photos were taken.
The carved wooden signs on graves have symbolic meaning – the way they are carved refer to the person who is buried there, and the column itself in tis shape symbolises a human, with a „head”, „body”, etc. E.g. a star can refer to a man, a tulip to a female, while a crown can refer to a leading personality, while a mace (weapon) to a person with a war-experience.
Flames can symbolise a wise man or woman, while there were of course religious elements as well – cross, turban, etc. Below, text was also occasionally carved, sometimes with ancient Hungarian „rovásírás” (runic writing).
Kolektyw Palce Lizać- Travelling Postcard #01
The postcard is to be sent from Romania to Hungary, from Hungary to Slovakia and then to Poland.
Every time it gets new address and new recipient and some additional local pictures for common postcard collage.
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Łukasz Jastrubczak – Several motives on letter S – Spectral composition with Sighișoara in the back
music : excerpt from „Credo for 9 celli” by Horațiu Rădulescu (first spectral composition)
“I have a fantastic idea, I will awake a spectrum of C on nine celli, up to the forty-fifth harmonic, like seeing a fresco from nine different distances at the same time.” It means the first cello is playing nine types of music, alpha, beta, and so on; the second cello plays the same fresco but from a nearer distance, so he has more time to look into the material, but he lost one type of music; and so on, the third will come nearer to this fresco, until the ninth cello is totally in the matter of sound, losing all the other eight “musics” and being involved only in one. And so you get different distances at the same time. *
*http://academia.edu/2152971/_
Julie Chovin – Treasure from the Fleamarket : Trainstation of Constanța
Seydou Grépinet – Car
Łukasz Jastrubczak – Several motives on letter S
Valérie de Saint-Do – Mechanisms Anthem
(freely inspired by Berurier Noir)
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Salut à toi ô mon frère Salut à toi chemin de fer Salut à toi le Polonais Salut à toi le Bordelais Salut à toi le Slovaque Salut à toi du pays basque Salut à toi le Hongrois Salut à toi le Roumain salut à toi le Parisien Salut à toi le chercheur Salut à toi le performer Salut à toi le curateur Salut à toi le reporter Salut à toi le sociologue Salut à toi l’anthropologue Salut à toi le photographe Salut à toi la chorégraphe Salut à toi l’architecte Salut à toi le poète Salut à toi l’historien Salut à toi qui sait rien Salut à toi Bucarest Salut à toi Budapest Salut à toi Cluj Napoca Salut à ti Oh Dracula Salut à toi Nowy Sacz Salut à toi Kosiče Salut à toi Varsovie Salut à toi Cracovie Salut aussi à Plavec Salut au fantôme d’Erzsebet Salut aux fils du communisme Salut aux filles de Mécanismes Salut à toi la Fabrica Salut à toi Tabačka Salut à toi Bakelit Salut aux documentaristes Salut à vous les artistes Salut à tous les activistes Salut à toi le fêtard Et salut aussi à Point barre Salut à toi la Gazeta Salut à toi la gueule de bois Salut à toi le kino wagon Salut à vous et mort aux cons |
Here’s to you O brother Here’s to you on the railway Here’s to you the Polish Here’s to you from Paris Here’s to you the Slovak Here’s to you the Basque Here’s to you the Hungarian Here’s to you the Romanian Here’s to you from Bordeaux Here’s to you Roma people Here’s to you the researcher Here’s to you the performer Here’s to you the curator Here’s to you the reporter Here’s to you the sociologist Here’s to you the anthropologist Here’s to you the photographer Here’s to you the choreographer Here’s to you the architect Here’s to you the poet Here’s to you the historian Here’s to you with no name Here’s to you Bucharest Here’s to you Budapest Here’s to you Cluj-Napoca Here’s to you Dracula Here’s to you Kosiče Here’s to you Nowy Sacz Here’s to you city of Warsaw Here’s to you city of Cracow Here’s to you city of Plaveč Hail to the ghost of Erszebet Here’s to you sons of communism Here’s to you girls of Mechanisms Here’s to you the Fabrica Here’s to you Tabačka Here’s to you Bakelit Here’s to you all the artists Here’s to you the activists Here’s to you in the bars Here’s to you the hangover Here’s to you kino-wagon Here’s to you all and fuck the morons |
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