Saturday, November 21, 2009, 19.00
SCREENING FOLLOWED BY A Q&A SESSION WITH IOANA NITU AND SILVIA VASILESCU
ECONOMY OF EFFORT
Curators: Ioana Nitu & Silvia Vasilescu
Participants: Valerie Soe, Gabriel de la Mora, Diane Nerwen, Les Leveque, Mumia Abu-Jamal (Prison Radio)
There is a distortion/contradiction between the things we want to believe as true and the things that are true (although accurate would be a better term), all coming from the information we take as right without confronting it's veracity .
The deficient or insufficient models of reality are just products of what W. Lippman counted as factors of the economy of effort : "...the limitations of social contact, the comparatively meager time available in each day for paying attention to public affairs, the distortion arising because events have to be compressed into very short messages, the difficulty of making small vocabulary express a complicated world, and finally the fear of facing those facts which would seem to threaten the established routine of men's lives."
A project like this might have an educational purpose, ideally to undo the errors caused not by the fiction or reality presented, here, with an evident conclusion, but by the fiction within our heads, the cause as well as the environment of all misleading information. And also, needed to be added, if it's not part of our history, what is wiser to choose, with the lack of time in the equation, empathy or indifference?
Ioana Nitu (b.1986) graduated from the National University of Arts, Bucharest. She was the assistant director at PAVILION UNICREDIT. Since September 2009 she was appointed as executive director of Bucharest Biennale.
Silvia Vasilescu (b.1986) graduated from the National University of Arts, Bucharest, and, currently is the Publication and Education Manager at PAVILION UNICREDIT and project manager of the educational projectFree Academy. She was the assistant curator of the project "Exploring the Return of Repression".
Image: Valerie Soe, video still from All Orientals are the Same, video, black/white, 1' 30'', 1986. Courtesy of the artist
Participants: Valerie Soe, Gabriel de la Mora, Diane Nerwen, Les Leveque, Mumia Abu-Jamal (Prison Radio)
There is a distortion/contradiction between the things we want to believe as true and the things that are true (although accurate would be a better term), all coming from the information we take as right without confronting it's veracity .
The deficient or insufficient models of reality are just products of what W. Lippman counted as factors of the economy of effort : "...the limitations of social contact, the comparatively meager time available in each day for paying attention to public affairs, the distortion arising because events have to be compressed into very short messages, the difficulty of making small vocabulary express a complicated world, and finally the fear of facing those facts which would seem to threaten the established routine of men's lives."
A project like this might have an educational purpose, ideally to undo the errors caused not by the fiction or reality presented, here, with an evident conclusion, but by the fiction within our heads, the cause as well as the environment of all misleading information. And also, needed to be added, if it's not part of our history, what is wiser to choose, with the lack of time in the equation, empathy or indifference?
Ioana Nitu (b.1986) graduated from the National University of Arts, Bucharest. She was the assistant director at PAVILION UNICREDIT. Since September 2009 she was appointed as executive director of Bucharest Biennale.
Silvia Vasilescu (b.1986) graduated from the National University of Arts, Bucharest, and, currently is the Publication and Education Manager at PAVILION UNICREDIT and project manager of the educational projectFree Academy. She was the assistant curator of the project "Exploring the Return of Repression".
Image: Valerie Soe, video still from All Orientals are the Same, video, black/white, 1' 30'', 1986. Courtesy of the artist