“Spirited” is a laboratory workshop (20 – 23 March; later dates will be added) with two directions and processes: on one hand in relation with the medium we will be researching and imagining experimental radio formats and on the other hand in relation with the topic we will be looking at the role of clothing in asserting identities that go beyond the binary gender categorization.
Spirited will be quest for inspiration and emphaty to be found in gender narratives that rarely surface into mainstream (using as case studies performers, musicians and designers like Leigh Bowery, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, trans pornstars like Buck Angel and Allanah Starr, artists: del lagrace volcano, Eva & Adele) opening a conversation and taking them on a territory that is most of the time impalpable and in continuous metamorphosis.
Apparatus 22 is a transdisciplinary art collective founded in January 2011 by current members Erika Olea, Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea together with Ioana Nemes (1979 - 2011) in Bucharest, Romania. Beginning with 2015 we are working between Bucharest and Brussels.
Our work was presented in exhibitions and festivals at La Biennale di Venezia 2013, MUMOK, Vienna (AT), Brukenthal Museum Contemporary Art Gallery, Sibiu (RO), MAK, Vienna (AT), Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE), Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest (RO), Museion, Bolzano (IT), TIME MACHINE BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, D-0 ARK UNDERGROUND, Konji (BIH), TRAFO Gallery, Budapest (HU), Futura, Prague (CZ), Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL), Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE), Contemporary Art Museum (MNAC), Bucharest (RO), KunstMuseum Linz (AT), Osage Foundation (Hong Kong), Progetto Diogene, Turin (IT), Drodesera Festival, Dro (IT), Nest, Den Haag, (NL), Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (BE), CIAP, Hasselt (BE), Barriera, Turin (IT), De Appel (NL), Kunsthalle Wien (AT) etc.
Links studio visits (fall 2016) :
Turin with curator Clara Madaro
Bucharest with curator Sandra Demetrescu
Brussels with curator Evelyn Simons
