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The Open Practice Society is
\na project run by the Qolony Association – The Colony for Art and Sciences.
\nQolony is financed by Bucharest Municipality, through ARCUB. The Open Practice
\nSociety supports the infrastructure and the development of the Malmaison
\nWorkshops. Also, the project facilitates the access of the public to the
\ninitiatives of this community of active support for the young artists. 177-year
\nold Malmaison building, initially an army barracks, has a highly relevant
\nhistorical significance. In time,
\nMalmaison was an Officers Army School and a military tribunal. Also, it was a
\nprison during the Antonescu regime, as well as an investigation and detention
\ncentre in the early days of the communist regime. The Malmaison Workshops seek
\nto put the building back on track, making it a landmark of the city’s living
\ncircuit. The project inaugurates a new stage in the long history of the
\nbuilding. <\/p>\n
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As present, the Malmaison
\nWorkshops in Bucharest are an artistic community and a space jointly shared by
\nartists, workshops, projection areas and galleries. Open Practice Society equally
\ntargets the artistic community, the new, up-and-coming generation of artists
\nand the lay public in Bucharest. Through the talks given by prominent cultural
\npersonalities, artists of an international standing, a curator and a gallery
\nowner, One Practice Society is set to provide an alternative to the mainstream
\neducational curricula, offering pupils and students aged 16 to 20 the
\nopportunity to work with internationally -acclaimed artists. With details on
\nthat, here is a member of the Qolony Association and a broadcast journalist
\nwith Radio Romania’s Culture Channel, Mihaela Ghi\u021b\u0103.<\/p>\n
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We have
\ndispatched the information which is helpful for the youngsters, we have
\ndispatched it in high schools, the Nicolae Tonitza Fine Arts High School,
\nthe Fine Arts University in Bucharest, the Saint Sava National College, the Octav
\nOnicescu National College, and when the project was launched, a teacher
\nattended the event, based with the Saint Sava National College. We seek to make
\nour project known in all categories of milieus which include pupils and
\nstudents who may want to develop artistic projects. We lay emphasis on that
\nkind of practice, on the alternative practice which is not taught in schools,
\nbut which is part of the experience of the artists who got involved in that. What
\nwe’re doing right now is some sort of groundbreaking operation, that is we try
\nto make room for ourselves in that particular filed of education with a new
\nstyle, with a new system, which is off the beaten track, less conservative,
\nwhich implies learning by doing, that is learning and doing, letting imagination
\nand creativity work at full scale. We shouldn’t forget that today’s art is
\nassisted by technology and by alternative issues which are close to science
\nrather than artistic mastery. That is why there is a need for this visual
\neducation, for his artistic education of the youngsters, given that art will
\nhave a different form, a different manner of expression. It is normal for it to
\nchange, the world, as we speak, is a different one as compared to what it was
\n100 years ago, it is different even as compared to what it was 50 years ago, it
\neven is different from what it used to be 2 years ago. And such changes are
\nincreasingly generated by our interaction with the online environment.<\/p>\n
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The Open Practice Society includes
\nmentoring and practical work sessions carried with 9 youngsters, shortlisted
\nfollowing the call for registration. They are divided in three teams made of
\nthree members each. Each group is coordinated by one of the artists, and,
\nenjoying the support of the curator and of the gallery owner, work on the premises at the
\nMalmaison Workshops to develop artistic work, aimed at enhancing their
\npractical abilities. <\/p>\n
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Mihaela Ghita:<\/p>\n
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There are
\nthree mentor artists, Sabina Suru, working with holography, Floriama C\u00e2ndea, a
\nbio artist and one of the artists involved in the Fusion Air project and Larisa
\nCrun\u021beanu, specializing in sound and working on the borderline between video
\nand performance. So we offer a wide enough range for the youngsters who want to
\nlearn and try their hand in the artistic field. Earlier, I mentioned Sabina
\nSuru, who is interested in alternative photography and I should like to say that
\nshe had a very complex exhibition this summer, and exhibition of dance and
\nholography. As for Floriama C\u00e2ndea, she is a bio-artist working in living
\nmatter. In Fusion Air, an artists’ residences project we ran this year, Floriama
\nC\u00e2ndea tried some experiments with the researchers based with the a National
\nInstitute of Materials Physics. There are quite a few projects artists have
\nbeen trying to promote. Contemporary art, science-assisted art rather targets
\nthe mind and poses problems, triggers emotions and doesn’t leave you
\nindifferent. Such a work of art that does not necessarily have the painting
\nmastery of an artist is truly capable of raising ethical concerns.<\/p>\n
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Qolony is a non-profit
\norganization generating connections between art, science and technology. Qolony
\nacts like a bridge between professionals in those fields. Set up in 2019,
\nQolony is based on the conviction of its founders, Mihaela Ghi\u021b\u0103, Sabina Suru and
\nFloriama C\u00eendea, whereby the trans-disciplinary practices are the cornerstone
\nof the development of innovative ideas. Qolony supports and stages such events
\nas exhibitions, conferences, production projects, discussions between artists
\nand scientists, as well as artists’ residences, structured around scientific
\nresearch and artistic creation. <\/p>\n
(Translation by Eugen Nasta)<\/p>\n
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