http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CsW5ULYfTM

a aparut dezinterzis, o platforma de idei urbane

The main thing I have to mention about this clips is that I enjoy doing them as a personal recreation since I am my own client. The versions for concert do evolve each time. I can’t stop tinkering around. And I also love to interconnect them.  less talk and more video:

Aievea – Joy of life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1PkfaS3vH8

Aieva – Azi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UddKHJn9nG4

Aievea – Am uitat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgNpmtaN6yk

Aievea – Slowly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvUrBH22kv4

Aievea – Papillon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAwp8ZYx3vY

Tocmai ce a avut premiera si piesa Opinia publica la teatrul din sibiu. Este una din piesele cele mai solide conceptual la care am lucrat pana acum si sunt foarte fericit cu ce am reusit sa producem. A fost una dintre putinele piese la care toata lumea de la scenografie pina la muzica, regie, coregrafie a tras tare. nu a avut timp nimeni de politici, de cine isi impune ideea lui preferata sau cine ce credit isi ia.  Toata lumea pur si simplu a dat si cristi a reusit sa imbine toate elementele ceea ce nu e usor. Cred ca este o piesa completa.

si un trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhe0eOFDE5s

si daca doriti mai multe amanunte si detalii

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZGfbrLY5P4

the anniversary of 50 years. Romanian national television. long and strange history. For the event I was in charge of the whole video starting from the tv screens at the entrance, to the projections on the television tower, from the visuals made live to the reel of 2007 season. It was a great project and it remained a cornerstone in the events landscape and it was all possible because of the team : dragos buhagiar (stage designer) and vlaicu golcea (sound)

from a 70′s work book photographed by harald scherz

the video came as a response to the romanian political turmoil of summer 2007, the 322 referendum (parliament vs president)

“The artist Daniel Gontz has realized it as response/ statement against the serious turmoil during the summer 2007 resulting from the impeachment referendum of the then President of the Republic Traian Basescu.(2) In the video there is the spotless and evident disapproval of the Romanian artistic world in front of those facts and events: at the beginning, on the background of the images, it is visible the table lamp designed by Vlad Nanca (with the inevitable pop-stylized forms of the Dacia) and then a photographic work by Gontz himself as a reply/homage to a piece of the group subREAL (formed, in the Nineties, not only but also by Calin Dan and Dan Mihaltianu); the video finishes with the gallerist Dan Popescu, who brutally breaks down the Television of State with a hammer. ”
by Eleonora Farina as presented on “Playlist” at Neon>campobase

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wINy7uTT3vc

The blue spots signalize the aesthetic earthquake that has been shaking the Romanian cities for the past 15 years. The elements involved in this cataclysm are noiseproof window panes, rigips, sandstone, the residual space left behind by the communist urbanism, a plethora of glass facades, fractions of the television’s visual culture, euphoric demolitions, cages for bodyguards, plastic plants, black marble, adornments made of stainless metal and ideas about architecture that defy any norm by means of which a city exists and develops usually. It felt imperative that I react to the suffocating ugliness of numerous buildings that were constructed in these last few years.

The spots indicate danger and I believe that the peril of aesthetical degradation is just as menacing as the risk of an earthquake. The red spots tell you to stay away, the blue ones urge you to take a stand.

A project by Daniel Gontz and Gianina Carbunariu

The performance suggests a contamination between the different times of recent history, an ambiguous gesture that can cause panic or joy, an attempt at reviving the tissue of the city affected by necrosis, an advertising campaign for a missing product, a question about solidarity in the torpid Romania of 2007.

the performance was sponsored by chivas and supported by h’art gallery

I will also promise to be faster with the updates.

SubReal – Framing Bucharest

Vlad Nanca and Daniel Gontz

“The remake of the two photographs closes, in a sense, an era: it renders the model classical by the fact that it has triggered a reproduction. It forces the previous generation into a “master” status, untouchable but also distant. Gontz’s maneuver simulates the canon – first reproduced, then pushed away through acts of differentiation. “

“the relation between national tv and romanian history for the last 50 years .”
all images were made on lenticular prints creating the illusion of video sequences. Most of the installation has been stolen by the employs of TVR

“A project that interrogates contemporary forms of knowledge production and distribution. It also indicates the rather unflattering fact that these processes today resemble knowledge marketing. “Knowledge is power” has been interpreted differently in recent years, after Lyotard’s statement that knowledge and power are “two sides of the same question”.  In Gontz’s manipulated photographs of supermarkets, the product types have been re-labeled as academic disciplines. And we can safely assume that the giant retail store is surrounded by smaller ones, trading in niche forms of knowledge and all sorts of specialist products – the new delicatessen of thought. The supermarkets suggest that forms of production and division of knowledge proliferate today in accordance with maps not necessarily academic, with new interests, instruments and criteria, that the gap between radicality and advertising progressively diminishes..”

by Mihnea Mircan

The project of a virtual traveling agency is an ironic analysis of the Romania political scene and of its reflection in the media. Our proposal of a political tourism agency is similar to the extreme sport tours or the cultural traveling packages. We address to those who wish to witness and experiment the transition from communism to democracy, the development of democracy and how the transition actually feels like. Surely all this is purely fictional and this agency is solely an art project.

http://www.mip.at/creations/interventionen-in-progress-40

“The space created by the installation shows individuals in everyday situations within their identity generating environment. It is a project about privacy and contemporary living, about intrusion and illusion, about the visible ego.” by Cosmin Costinas, curator

“this Hamlet is sited in simultaneous narratives: in the theatrical one, ranging from live performance, to Brecht captioned interludes mike-announced by Hamlet or Horatio in stand up comedy style, to the drama therapy session The Murder of Gonzago in which Hamlet forces everyone to play a part; and in the media one, ranging from film projection and computer animation to videoart, complete with diagetic sound, as in the banquet for Claudiu’s coronation, the Hamlet-Ophelia love story, or Ophelia’s madness scene.”  by Nicoleta Cinpoes

reviews:

“The (inter)play’s the thing:” “Hamlet”, Sibiu, 2008
Nicoleta Cinpoeş, University of Worcester, UK

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