LOADING OPEN LAB

Performing Clowning Pinocchio by Theo Pelmus

2010-08-24T05:43:00.000-07:00

live feed web cam performance from Loading Open LAB ,Bucharest, Romania
16.08.2010
9 am Canadian time, 4 pm Romanian time

This project is based on the idea of performativity of the character Pinocchio. Pinocchio is performed through a clowning strategy.
The character travels in order to define his identity. The normativity of his identity is dictated by the environment in which time and space places him.
The project has two components: poster action and live ...feed web cam performance.
The poster action component consists of placing posters in the cities that I have visited during my trip to Romania. So far I have covered eight cities and one city that used to belong to Romania, Balcic (now belonging to Bulgaria). The posters portray two representations of Pinocchio: one comic and the other one disturbed. Both of them represent the failure of representation of identity. But this failure succeeds to define his deformed and incomplete self. Being Romanian means to fail throughout history. Romanian society is contradictory and illogical. Satire, comedy, disturbance, beauty, garbage and luxury coexist.
Traveling is a key factor in this project. After five years I returned to my native country Romania to revisit the past, present and future. Romania is still in a failing status. The economy does not function in a smooth manner. The burden of bureaucracy and inequality is a constant reality. I visited nine cities in a search to find differences and place my Pinocchio identity in a Romanian context.
What does it mean to be Romanian? The most appropriate answer is to perform Pinocchio. I left my family in order to discover. I have been swallowed in the big Canadian belly. There I have been performing my roles, clown, gold leaf face, disturbed character and Pinocchio. All these characters have a poetic and abject language. Pinocchio in order to become in being had traveled through all the other characters that were before him. Traveling implies creating distances; leaving and approaching. Through the poster action of this project temporary spaces are marked as if marks are left on a trail in order to not become lost. The action of being photographed with the photographed character is meant to create another realm of the reality of the Pinocchio character.
When the destination is reached Pinocchio has to communicate back, to mirror past and present, to mirror the starting point of his trip with the final destination. The live feed performance is meant to translate this communication between two spaces. But through this process privacy is not anymore a matter of being someone. Everyone on the Internet can see him communicating as if he is an archetype of identity. He is telling a story of becoming human from and inanimate object, becoming an identity from a non-identity. Performing Clowning Pinocchio contextualizes Theo Pelmus in a space between Romania and Canada.

www.theopelmus.com

Live web cam stream performance de Noaptea Muzeelor

2010-05-12T00:07:00.000-07:00

performance de Magda & Bogdan Pelmus de Noaptea Muzeelor
15 mai 2010 / 7 pm
locatie : Loading Open LAB (Bucuresti) & Muzeul d e Arta Brasov
str. Elie Radu nr.1 colt cu Splaiul Independentei /actiunea va avea loc pe trotuarul de pe Splaiul Independentei si va fi transmisa live prin web cam pe peretele Muzeului de Arta Brasov

Betoane si Eroi de noaptea galeriilor

2009-06-15T05:11:00.000-07:00

Safe Mapping AKA They Are Watching! / parallel event Bucharest Biennale BB3 / 2008

2008-06-02T00:09:00.000-07:00

Bucharest Biennale BB3 Pavilion / contemporary art magazine

artists : Magdalena & Bogdan Pelmus aka Loading Open LAB / Bucharest RO

Theo Pelmus , Faisal Anwar & Ulysses Castellanos , Ottawa & Toronto CA

GREY MAN FOR SALE by Magda & Bogdan Pelmus / actiune in vitrina Kenvelo/ 28.04.-06.05. 2008

2008-04-30T06:41:00.000-07:00

Grey Man For Sale de Magda & Bogdan Pelmus
actiune in vitrina frostului Kenvelo din Bd-ul. Regina Elisabeta (Universitate)
vizibila in perioada 28 aprilie - 6 mai
Atelier in Tranzitie / 2008

GAME OVER by Magda & Bogdan Pelmus(RO)/multimedia interacting project/June 1st 2007,7.00 pm

2007-05-28T03:48:00.000-07:00

BOOM ! - video 4'57 Bogdan Pelmus
GAME OVER - slideshow 4'40 Magda Pelmus

GAME OVER
Concept by Magda Pelmus

A recent study made by the association Children of the World Protected Inc., in U.S, shows a monstrous proportion of the juvenile violence face to normality. According to this study 96, 72% of the children have tendencies to become violent and 63, 58% are potential serial criminals, the rest of 37% being a serious danger not only for the society but for themselves too, the study showing that they have suicidal tendencies.
In the spring of 2007, a test was made on 100 subjects of different nationalities and from diverse social categories, with ages between 3 and 16. The test shows that 99, 82% of them are attracted to violent games and movies with violent content, dirty language, sexual scenes, guns, crimes, so on.
The monstrosity doesn’t stop here. Over 93% of them have had the wish to imitate what they have seen and more than 78% of them resorted to vandalism, 62% to verbal and physical abuse, street fights, 19% of them suicide and 13% to homicide. Those are real numbers that scare us.
Same kind of test was made twenty years ago, in 1987, and the numbers reveal us that then only 23% of the minor subjects had developed violent tendencies, from which only 2% had developed suicidal tendencies and 1, 02% criminal tendencies. From here we may say that children traumas made by society are strongest today then before.
Not longer than last year we were witnesses at numerous facts of vandalism and juvenile criminality over all continents. The juvenile criminality phenomenon is increased by the violence excessive promoted through: movies, games, family ignorance, mass media, playgrounds, schools.
A study ruled in 2004 on pupils showed that 2, 5% of 11-12 years pupils have had consumed marijuana at least once and 0, 4% heroine, 0, 3% ecstasy, 0, 2% cocaine and 0, 1% LSD. Constant consumers of marijuana had self declared 0, 1% and of cocaine also 0, 1%. Offences made by minors are increasing and diversifying in forms, this way being born new types of offences like the electronic kinds of. In 2005 from the amount of 59.105 charges, 11.400 were charging minors (and 2.188 were for violence). From the amount of charges on minors robbery is almost 80%, piratical offences 12%, physical violence 3, 59% and prostitution 0, 6 %.
In 2005 on national level were functioning 36 prisons from which only 2 for minors and young people, also 3 centers for readjustment and 6 hospitals penitentiaries. The number of convicted children was increased, in 2004, at 851(681 being in the penitentiary’s custody and 170 in the readjustment centers custody). The penitentiaries for adults have special sections, for minors, those holding the majority of the convicted minors.
“Knowing that in present the percentage is increasing threatening, we appeal to the mature ones, of those who have the power of information, of culture people and not in the last place of mass media to ask for your support fighting to erase violence and juvenile criminality. For this we ask to be interdicted the news, movies, games and any other kind of activity with a violent character. GAME OVER!” said today Jonathan Smash , president of the corporation Union for a Better Tomorrow , in a press conference that was taking place with the J3 summit for fighting against juvenile criminality.

THIS PAGE CANNOT BE FOUND by Octavian(Dk)/ multimedia installation - May 3rd , 2007 , 7.00 pm

2007-04-29T10:03:00.000-07:00

Va invitam bla bla bla vernisajul proiectului This Page Cannot Be Found,proiect interactiv video installation, drawings on paper , lapte si miere, alkavit de Danemarca si bere.

Artistul va fi present.Octavian educat la Bucuresti si Copenhaga,active in cimpul muncii artistice ,initiatorul galleriei de arta contemporana Katharsis din Copenhaga si a proiectelor de colaborare intre cele doua tzari prietine si e.u.rizate.:FUZION INTERNATIONAL SI GLOCAL.

Artistul va fi omnipresent.

Va fi deschis la public

La discutii marunte birfe smenuri susanele.

Va juca teatru

Va fi sarmant

Se va umili

Se va enerva

Se va distra

Se va duce sa faca pipi des

(din pricina berilor multe)

se va conversa numai cu cei importanti

se va tine la distantza de provocatori

va fi echidistant.

Se va da in vint dupa dame influente si batrine si bogate

Va vorbii cu orice politician indiferent de coloratura si pe limba lor

va da dovada pe alocuri de badaranie si superioritate

Va da dovada de altruism fatza de confratii care nu au ajuns undeva

Va fi mereu senin

Va fi deschis ptr. Toti indiferent de etnie religie sex convingeri politice

Curtinitor cu cei puternici

Autoritat cu ignorantii

Guru cu adeptii

Hedonist cu hedonistii

Sofist cu sofistii pesimist cu pesimistii liberal cu liberalii

Comunist cu comunistii intolerant cu nazistii

Socialist cu socialistii

Democrat cu democratii

Sexual cu impotentii impotent cu delicventii superior cu complexatii

indiferent cu confratii

Sfidator cu birocratii

Vagabond cu securistii securist cu machiavelistii

Vinzator cu proBushistii si DUIOS CU FARMACISTII.

IA MAI MINATI MAI !

Octavian 2007

THIS PAGE CANNOT BE FOUND by Octavian(Dk)/ multimedia installation

2007-04-29T10:02:00.000-07:00

This page cannot be found 12'00" - still image

President 30'00" - still image

POLLUTION -project by KO.KE.M / INTERart 2006/ Friday 27th April 2007 , 19.00

2007-04-23T10:55:00.000-07:00

The period we live in causes more a mental and physical indisposition rather than making us feel content and fulfilled.Pollution in both its obvious and hidden forms-is present in our everyday:
- the changes needed to adapt to consumer society
- the loss or change of values
- superficiality, poverty and lack of culture
- pursuit of material goods
- lack of time, pseudo-cultural consumerism
- false freedom, so on

All the above factors present us with the circumstances that lead to mental and physical pollution. The achievements with the help of institutions, cultural programs, foundations and cultural centers promote, protect and create cultural values ; as well as artists through their peculiar approach and handling of the situation - professional associations and contemporary artists raise the awareness of pollution amongst various social problems through their own experience.
by KO.KE.M , INTERart 2006

POLLUTION

2007-04-23T10:39:00.000-07:00

ROCA -real time web cam stream double performance double location ,March 31 ,2007

2007-04-03T06:24:00.000-07:00

Theopelmus versus Bogdan Pelmus

locations: LOADING_OPEN LAB , Bucharest, Romania + Petite Mort Gallery , Ottawa , Canada

hours: 10 pm - Romanian time + 3 pm Canadian time

In 2006 La Petite Mort Gallery hosted the hotly debated performance Romanian Wound-Canadian Wound, where the artist was permanently branded with the 2 flags Romanian and Canadian. Not one to shy away from the prickly subject of displacement and belonging , Theopelmus will perform live with his artist-brother Bogdan Pelmus in Bucharest , via web cam at the Closing party of the show Evolving Identity on March 31 at 3 pm(Canadian time).They will both walk on a white tightrope , doing their best not to fall off . It's you who will decide if you watch 2 men facing each other or just one man facing a mirror.
"Being the same , being in the same space , being in the same time , if I ask my brother from Romania what time is it , I'll be told that is 7 hours ahead . I never understood why has to be different time in different places . I thought that being able to speak with the other at a certain moment doesn't affect the time. Once I have the opportunity to speak with him , I would aspect to be told that his watch and my watch run the same. I'm sure that it's not a problem of time but one of broken watches ."

Bogdan Pelmus performing in Loading_Open Lab, March 31 , 10.00 pm/ Bucharest , Romania - ROCA double perfor mance double location

2007-03-17T08:39:00.000-07:00

Theopelmus performing in La Petite Mort Gallery , March 31, 3.00 pm /Ottawa , Canada -ROCA double performance double location

2007-02-20T04:13:00.000-08:00

TANGONATOR'S KITCHEN - interacting performance

2006-12-01T01:41:00.000-08:00

"TANGONATOR" by GEORGE FOCSA -opening event in LOADING/ 27 November 2006

2006-11-07T02:26:00.000-08:00

Opening event in Loading-open lab :
" TANGONATOR " long-length film written & directed by George Focsa / Monday 27 . 11 . 2006 , h. 18.30

George Focsa , film director & writer , is going to show you , in Loading , the side-scenes of "Tangonator" and he's going to experiment and work at his film live.
Behind the scenes you'll see G.F. in the magic mirror working with his team , interviews , beautiful pictures .

George Focsa started to work at "Tangonator" since 2003 and he's still working at it.
"Tangonator" is a dramatic long- length and independent art movie , "a story about love , sex , friendship , death , together with many Finn tangos and beautifull landscapes ".

curators : Magda & Bogdan Pelmus

EGOCOMIC by KELEMEN ORS CSONGOR / 27.10.2006

2006-11-03T10:03:00.000-08:00

photos from Kelemen Ors Csongor's opening event "EGOCOMIC " in Loading-open lab / 27.october.2006 , h. 18.30
curators : Magda & Bogdan Pelmus

2006-10-29T04:57:00.000-08:00

multimedia & performance
location: Loading-open lab
credit : Kelemen Ors Csongor

2006-10-12T03:08:00.000-07:00

friday 27 .10. 2006 / h : 18.30
" EGOCOMIC " /multimedia & performance
artist : Kelemen O. Csongor

curators: Magda & Bogdan Pelmus

SANATORIU DE ARTA CONTEMPORANA

"A: Buna ziua . Ce doriti la masa ?
B: Nu stiu , ceva usor .
A: Atunci va recomand specialitatea casei : inspirati adanc .
B: Si la desert ?
A: Expirati .

B: Miroase urat !
A: Plamanii dumneavoastra ."

Kelemen O. Csongor
traieste si activeaza in Miercurea Ciuc , Ro

I'M GOING GLOCAL / part 3-RO / SURSA group-performance in LOADING - open lab / 30.o9.2006

2006-10-06T02:34:00.000-07:00

Glocal History - Concept

HISTORY : 1 . the developmental process of society's phenomenon;
2 . a science that studies (investigates) the complex development of society , a nation and so on .

The History requires : facts , attitudes , evolution , transformations(changes) , essences(substances) , effects (consequences) , attributes , transitions , (equi)valences and so on.
Scraping the History and tacking pictures of each other through the History , the 2 characters having distinct valences - one GREY and the other one MULTI COLOURED- are not only approaching the identity destruction but also of identity maintenance and the consequences borne by the LOCAL History as the result of GLOBAL expansion and of turning into GLOCAL History.
At the same time , by taking photos , the 2 characters are seeking their ( new) identity , they are comparing themselves with each other , they are (self) investigating each other , and they are looking at each other through the mirror , seeking their ( equi)valences.

The HISTORY is ( re) created / WE are ( self) included .

concept : Magda Pelmus
curators: Octavian Neagu (DK) & Saskia Te Nicklin (DK)
credit : SURSA group

Glocal History -no. 3 performance / SURSA group(RO)
location : Loading -open lab , Bucharest , RO
credit : SURSA group (RO)

I'M GOING GLOCAL / part 3 /Opening in LOADING-open lab / RO

2006-10-06T01:01:00.000-07:00

events:

1. webcam opening by Octavian Neagu (DK) ;

2. Glocal History / performance no. 3 , SURSA group(RO) ;

3. movies marathon projections ;

4. online-webcam debates with curators .

location : Loading -open lab, Bucharest , RO
credit : SURSA group (RO) /Loading team board/ curators Octavian Neagu & Saskia Te Nicklin (DK) & all the artists involved in the project

I'M GOING GLOCAL / part 2-RO /SURSA group -performance

2006-10-02T06:36:00.000-07:00

location: KO.KE.M. - Contemporary Art Museum , Miercurea Ciuc, RO
Glocal History / performance no. 2 /SURSA group(RO)
credit : SURSA group (RO)

I'M GOING GLOCAL / part 1-HU/ conference & views

2006-10-02T06:14:00.000-07:00

location: Danish Cultural Institute, Kecskemet, HU

I'M GOING GLOCAL /part 1-HU/ Octavian Neagu(DK)-untitled performance

2006-10-02T03:07:00.000-07:00

untitled performance-Octavian Neagu(DK)
location: Danish Cultural Institut, Kecskemet, HU
credit : Octavian Neagu (DK)

I'M GOING GLOCAL / part 1-HU/SURSA group-performance

2006-10-02T01:57:00.000-07:00

location: Danish Cultural Institut, Kecskemet, HU
Glocal History-performance no. 1/ SURSA group(RO)
credit : SURSA group (RO)

MAP - Where to find us

2006-09-25T03:01:00.000-07:00

OPENING show

2006-08-17T12:28:00.000-07:00

"I'm Going Glocal" /30 september 2006 /h: 17.00
-video projections-
-performance-
-debates-online
further info on :
www.glocalproject.blogspot.com

draft :SURSA group's performance "Glocal HISTORY" /concept Magda Pelmus

ABOUT

2006-08-17T12:11:00.000-07:00

Loading Open LAB is an underground open studio exhibiting under construction contemporary art & neo contemporary art projects and experiments , for 1 day / month dot
Loading Open LAB is a cultural space , non commercial , non profit dot
Loading Open LAB is a loading field dot
Loading Open LAB is a laboratory for the research of the contemporary art phenomenon dot
Loading Open LAB is suggesting , debating and transcending boarders dot
Loading Open LAB doesn't exhibit finite projects dot
Loading Open LAB is working with any kind of expression dot
Loading Open LAB is under construction dot

After the show you can see the documentation of all the exhibited projects here .There is no particularly program for visiting the gallery.For that you should simply mail us first before coming , at loadinggallery@yahoo.com or at loadinggallery@gmail.com or calling on 0721.984670.

Please send your projects, followed by short CV on loadinggallery@yahoo.com or loadinggallery@gmail.com

open call/no deadline

BOARD & CONTACTS/ADDRESS

2006-08-16T03:26:00.000-07:00

team board :
Bogdan Pelmus /RO / www.bogdanpelmus.blogspot.com
Magda Pelmush /RO / http://onemorebox.blogspot.com
Theo Pelmus / CA / www.propound.blogspot.com

address:
LOADING Open LAB
underground open studio
str. Elie Radu no. 1
sector 5 /basement
Bucharest RO

contact :
loadinggallery@yahoo.com
loadinggallery@gmail.com

...PLAYING!

2006-08-15T15:50:00.000-07:00

INSIDE VIEW

2006-08-15T07:34:00.000-07:00

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