During our Erasmus experience in Cluj-Napoca (RO), we decided with a small group to create art works around a common theme : a place we discovered and called the Abandoned Communist Cinema. We used to go there to play around, jump in huge stacks of film strips and find inspiration. 
Angela Kallo and Diana Dragau Chirila, teaching Installation and Performing Arts at the Universitatea de Arta si Design encouraged us to come together as a collective of artists in order to create this exhibition. 
My role as organizer and curator of this project was to make sure everything was done right and in time and that each artwork had the opportunity to live and exist among other works.
Beside our personnal works, we had to face the usual challenges you meet when organizing an exhibition : clean another abandoned space called Cetatuie's Arsenal so we could exhibit, divide the space for everyone's work, create posters and leaflets, collaborate with the school and the different parties involved with the help of our coordinators.

Our main focus in this exhibition was to let people have the same experience we had when discovering the Abandoned Communist Cinema : walk everywhere, discover every corner of each room, play with filmstrips, touch with our hands the different materials around us that invaded this odd space. Also, we did not want to recreate the cinema, but we wanted to create a new space expressing our feelings towards it.

Our exhibition was part of Zilele Cluj City Days, Scena Urbana. We got promotion in the newspapers, radio and television TVR Cluj made a documentary about us. Romanian critiques said Cluj had not had such a thing for the last ten years.

"It's not a school project, it's contemporary art".

 

 

 

 

This Behance presentation will never represent the emotional power 
and the variety of this exhibition, I apologize for this.