Relaxed, summer - 2016
18 – 30 august, 2016
„Relaxed, Summer” is a project that came about naturally, and which had as its starting point the recordings capturing family life and relationships between members of the community in the P blocks on Pescărușului Street, somewhere between 1990 and 1996.
The event is, in fact, a recreation of the atmosphere of a birthday party for one of the children of the S. family in the early 1990s, using a combination of painting, installation, video, photography and happening. Birthdays, celebrated in personal homes, were a good moment for the cohesion of those „on the ladder” and the extended family, an approach that once stripped of memories appears as a desolate image of the helplessness of Romanian society at the time.
The sources of this exhibition project belong to an aerial research revealed to the public in the exhibition „Post-industrial Red” (2012), in which a version of the video „Summer party ’95”, which was part of a two-channel installation, was presented.
The invitation to the public is to participate in a pseudo-party, in a pseudo-dinner, in a relaxed atmosphere, practicing the recovery of interpersonal relationships.
Flavia Lupu
Nu, pogodi!
No, pogodi! is an animated series produced in the Soviet Union by Soiuzmultfilm . The first episode was made on 14 June 1969 and the last on 7 October 2006. It had several writers over the years: Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin and Aleksandr Kurlyandsky (for the 2005 and 2006 episodes), the pilot episode was directed by Gennady Sokolsky. The original screenplay was written by Felix Kandel,
The series presents the comic adventures of a mischievous wolf – Volk, who tries to catch (presumably with the intention of eating) a rabbit – Zayats, a kind of Soviet Tom and Jerry. Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, the first writer of the series, says that although his cartoon appeared in 1969, he first saw an episode of Tom and Jerry in 1987, when his son, who would become the director of the final episodes of the series, bought a video camera.
Vyacheslav Kurlyandsky’s son Aleksey Kotyonochkin made two more episodes in 2005 and 2006. The 2006 ones were first shown at film festivals, but in 2007 they became available to the general public in Pyatyorochka and Perekryostok supermarket chains.
In a 1970 episode of No, Pogodi! the bunny runs through the frame with a bunch of balloons in his hands coloured red, yellow and blue. The sequence was cut during editing by the TVR censorship committee, Irina Margareta Nistor recounts in an interview, because the committee members thought it was an allusion to the Russians controlling Romania.
No zaietz pogodi!, cried by the big bad wolf, is one of the first memories I have of the time when I lived on Pescărușului Street, in one of the blocks P. We were probably around 4 years old.
After 1990, „Captain Planet”, „The Ninja Teats”, „Candy” and „Sailor Moon” started to be shown, the first mentioned played a major role in how the games between the kids in front of the block were playing.