mObile gallery focAR group | Alina TUDOR & Razvan NEAGOE
URBAN TRACES - TELEPHONE | The bank of images - PUBLIC TELEPHONE http://oberliht.org.md/GM.html a side event to the INTERVENTIONS3* project http://oberliht.org.md/interventii3.html July 1 - 31, 2008 poster (print and forward): http://www.oberliht.org.md/GM/program/2008/07_focAR/focarafis_en.pdf The Telephone has become an exponent for urban society. It is a part of our life; it creates connections between us and helps us in making relations. There are telephones inside every apartment, on main streets and boulevards there are telephone booths and every person has a mobile phone at hand. Telephone means motion and it expresses the identity of the one who uses it. We start up from the idea that the identity cannot be anything else but the object of a horizontal analysis and cant be simply defined as an urban artefact. It represents a cultural sign as long as the virulent changes affecting all the social structures register as a natural answer a form of resistance over the all these mutations. TEL. continues the series of unconventional spaces as part of the Urban Traces project. Following the interactive Up in the flat theres a house and Courier projects, this one brings in front a small but sizeable space, which is ignored. We have chosen the public phone because it is getting sick of daily urban life syndrome. It has become a place for passers by to have rest, a shelter to hide from the rain it is vandalised and almost none of the phone booths has the door. This project is a warning sign regarding the collective indifference that is representative for big cities. STATISTICS In present in Bucharest there are about 7.600 public telephones, 400 more than it was in 2000. On the country level there are at least 50.000 public telephone posts installed, out of which 12.500 in the rural areas. According to the Penal Code, articles 217, 219, damaging a phone booth represents an illegal act penalized from 1 to 3 months of imprisonement. If there is a damage or degradation registered due to arson, explosion or any other similar act and if it results in public danger the penalty can be from 3 to 15 years of imprisonement. Jurnalul National (27-05-2005) a project by Oberliht Association http://www.oberliht.org.md * The INTERVENTIONS3 project is organized in partnership with UNAgaleria/Bucharest and STATE of EMERGENCY - magazine for literature, art and attitude, with the financial support of the Latin Union (office from Republic of Moldova), Romanian Cultural Institute through the CANTEMIR Program, European Cultural Foundation and Henkel Romania. -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://www.oberliht.org.md . . . . . . . . . . . http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre