CCTeVezi
Proiectul CCTeVezi este realizat in 2008 in Timisoara. Intr-un moment aparte, in care si la noi CCTV-urile (Camerele de Supraveghere cu Circuit Inchis) incep sa fie din ce in ce mai in/vizibil prezente in spatiul public, dand fie un sentiment de siguranta, fie unul de paranoia, in functie de experientele fiecarui individ si raportarea sa la ideea de siguranta/autoritate.
Ideea de camera de supraveghere este ironizata aici de aparatul foto care, ascuns intr-un loc nu tocmai obisnuit, un cos de gunoi in piata centrala din Piata Unirii din Timisoara, in fata fantanii publice unde oamenii se opresc sa bea apa sau sa stea pur si simplu in asteptarea cuiva, surprinde, cadru dupa cadru, succesiv, in cele 10 fotografii, cateva dintre persoanele aflate in aria de “supraveghere” la momentul respectiv.
Locatia a fost aleasa deoarece fantana respectiva este locul de intalnire cel mai cunoscut in oras, un potential “punct strategic” pentru orice CCTV.
The CCTeVezi project was made in 2008 in Timisoara, Romania, in a certain contextual moment when in Romania CCTVs (Closed-circuit television surveillance cameras) start to be more and more present in the public space, creating either a feeling of safety or of paranoia, depending on the personal experiences of each of us and our way of relating to the idea of security/authority.
The idea of surveillance camera is being here ironically treated by the photo camera which, hidden in an unusual place, a trash bin from the central square from Piata Unirii (Timisoara), in front of the public fountain where people stop to drink water or simply to stay while waiting for someone, catches, frame by frame, successively, in the 10 photos, a few of the people being in the “surveillance” area at the respective moment.
The location was chosen because the fountain is the most-known meeting place in town, a potential “strategic point” for any CCTV.
Trace Ta Route
Trace Ta Route este o documentare foto a unei instalatii urbane, un obiect-instalatie. A fost conceput si initiat in toamna anului 2007 in Montpellier, Franta si a fost continuat in Bucuresti , in 2007, cand a participat la evenimentul Stret Delivery pe strada Arthur Verona, in 2008, la proiectul Roll-Up-Art si la Timisoara in 2008, in cadrul festivalului Studentfest.
Primul impact este de natura vizuala si estetica, avand drept scop imediat infrumusetarea strazilor orasului si oferirea unui mic deliciu vizual trecatorilor intr-un loc neasteptat (tenisi pozitionati in directia de mers, pe verticala unui perete). La nivel conceptual, proiectul se vrea un indemn la a lasa urme in spatiul urban (trace, in limba franceza inseamna urma) si de a trasa prin ele o ruta. O ruta personala, o ruta spre infinit (pozitia verticala), o ruta care poate intersecta rutele altor persoane prin povestile pe care le inmagazineaza in el obiectul-instalatie si anume tenisi uzati din colectia personala. Obiectului-instalatie i se adauga stencilul explicativ care contine numele proiectului Trace Ta Route.
Trace ta Route e un proiect care “inspira” la reflectie si prin care zidurile orasului expira-inspira printr-un obiect-instalatie asemeni unui plaman extern, care face legatura intre vechi (istoria zidurilor) si nou (intamplarile urbane zilnice), reluand un proces normal, respiratia. Papucii devin astfel un canal de comunicare intre doi emitatori diferiti de informatie, ei insisi ramanand purtatori de informatii prin traseele, rutele parcurse.
Trace Ta Route is a urban object-installation and also a photo documentation of this installation.The project was conceived and started in the autumn of 2007 in Montpellier, France and was continued in Bucharest, Romania in 2007, when it participated in the interdisciplinary festival Street Delivery. During this 3 days festival, a street from the center of Bucharest was taken out from the driving circuit (the street was closed for cars) andon the street various artists performed (concerts, graffiti, installations etc.) The project also participated in 2008, in the Roll-Up-Art project in Bucharest and in Timisoara in 2008, during the Studentfest art festival.
The name means in translation from French: “Trace your route” . The project is made so that it can be adapted in any city of the world and is a continuous work in progress. The first level of impact is always visual and aesthetic, its meaning being to bring color to the streets of a city, offering the passers-by an unusual visual contact with an object which they find in a different position than the ordinary(on the vertical). At the conceptual level, the project is an open call addressing all people to leave their own traces in the life of the city where they live and create an imaginary route. A personal route, a route towards the infinite(vertical), which can intersect or not the routes of other people through the stories that are deposited in the object-installation (used shoes from my personal collection). Each route has its own story, and it is traced at its own speed, as never 2 lives are the same. The installation-object is accompanied by the stencil which contains the name of the project, Trace Ta Route.
Trace ta Route is a project that should incite to reflection and through which the walls of the city inhale-exhale through the object-installation like through some external lungs linking the old history of the city (stored in the walls) and the new one (daily urban happenings). Simultaneously, the object-installation (shoes) stands as a communication channel between 2 different information sources and as a source as the shoes are still carrying information through the trajectories, the routes they comprise in their own “walking history”. The object-installation can also stand as a non-intrusive means of surveillance which stores the real memory of the city on an imaginary tape, an immaterial memory. Just as well the object-installation could hide a real surveillance camera.
