Atelier • Andrei Nacu: Cartea de artist ca instrument pentru istoria potențială

Name: Atelier • Andrei Nacu: Cartea de artist ca instrument pentru istoria potențială
Start: 2025-10-23T11:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-10-24T13:00:00+03:00
Location: Facultatea de Arte Vizuale și Design, UNAGE Iași

Schedule

Thu, 23 Oct, 2025 at 11:00 am to Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 at 01:00 pm

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Location

Facultatea de Arte Vizuale și Design, UNAGE Iași | Iasi, IS

(𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖾𝗇𝗀𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗁 𝗉𝗅𝖾𝖺𝗌𝖾 𝗌𝖼𝗋𝗈𝗅𝗅 𝖽𝗈𝗐𝗇)

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Institutul de Cercetare Multidisciplinară în Artă, împreună cu Specializarea Artă Murală din cadrul Facultății de Arte Vizuale și Design a Universității Naționale de Arte „George Enescu” din Iași, organizează atelierul de producție:

CARTEA DE ARTIST CA INSTRUMENT PENTRU ISTORIA POTENȚIALĂ
susținut de artistul vizual Andrei Nacu

Joi și Vineri
23 și 24 octombrie 2025
Orele: 11:00 – 13:00
Corpul A, FAVD UNAGE Iași
Specializarea Artă Murală

Atelierul de producție susținut de Andrei Nacu în cadrul proiectului de cercetare „Imperative ale Schimbării Sociale” investighează cartea de artist ca spațiu critic pentru articularea memoriei și a istoriei. Inspirat de conceptul de „istorie potențială” formulat de Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, atelierul propune o reflecție asupra modului în care imaginile și arhivele pot fi reinterpretate și revendicate ca instrumente de cunoaștere și acțiune socială.
Într-un context în care istoria vizuală este fragmentată de fluxuri mediatice, algoritmi și narațiuni oficiale, atelierul explorează posibilitățile cărții de artist ca formă de reconfigurare a memoriei colective. Participanții vor lucra colaborativ cu materiale fotografice, documente personale și arhive publice, urmărind să regândească imaginea ca loc de întâlnire între memorie, afect și politică.
Procesul de lucru va pune accent pe adoptarea unei perspective critice asupra imaginii, concentrându-se pe editarea, designul și materialitatea cărții. Prin sesiuni de discuții și exerciții practice, atelierul încurajează o formă de învățare prin experiment, în care conceptele se clarifică prin proces, nu doar prin rezultat. Cartea devine astfel un instrument de gândire și de negociere a istoriei, un spațiu intermediar între document și ficțiune, între arhivă și narațiune, între trecut și prezent. Atelierul funcționează atât ca un laborator de idei, cât și ca un cadru colectiv de explorare vizuală, în care limitările temporale și materiale sunt folosite ca puncte de pornire pentru inovație conceptuală.
Atelierul se desfășoară pe parcursul a două zile și se adresează studenților FAVD interesați de cercetarea vizuală, de relația dintre artă și arhivă și de potențialul imaginii de a genera noi forme de gândire critică și socială.

Andrei NACU (n. 1984, Iași) este un artist vizual stabilit între Londra, Marea Britanie, și Iași, România. Practica sa artistică explorează intersecția dintre memoria personală și istoria socială, analizând adesea tensiunile dintre intimitate și colectiv prin fotografie documentară, albume de familie și arhive fotografice. În lucrările recente, Nacu își extinde practica incluzând video-ul, instalația și performance-ul, concentrându-se pe dimensiunile politice ale artei, pe etică și pe limitele reprezentării. Lucrările sale analizează critic modul în care narațiunile personale se împletesc cu contexte istorice și sociale mai largi. A studiat fotografia la University of Wales, Newport, Marea Britanie, și la Universitatea Națională de Arte „George Enescu” din Iași. Anterior a fost Archivist & Photo Curator la Royal Anthropological Institute din Londra, iar acum își desfășoară cercetarea doctorală la Royal College of Art.
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Atelierul este deschis tuturor studenților FAVD în limita locurilor disponibile, cu prioritate pentru studenții specializării Artă Murală. Pentru declararea interesului vă rugăm să trimiteți un email la adresa: [email protected].

Proiectul de cercetare „Imperative ale schimbării sociale” este manageriat de către lector univ. dr. Andrei Timofte, fiind finanțat de Institutul de Cercetare Multidisciplinară în Artă din cadrul Universității Naționale de Arte „George Enescu” din Iași prin intermediul granturilor interne de cercetare pentru anul 2025.

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The Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art together with the Mural Art Department within the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design of the “George Enescu” National University of Arts from Iași are announcing the production workshop:

THE ARTIST’S BOOK AS A TOOL FOR POTENTIAL HISTORY
with the artist Andrei Nacu

Thursday & Friday
October 23 & 24, 2025
Hours: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Building A, FAVD UNAGE Iași
Mural Art Department

The production workshop conducted by Andrei Nacu as part of the research project “Imperatives of Social Change” investigates the artist’s book as a critical space for articulating memory and history. Inspired by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s concept of “potential history”, the workshop proposes a reflection on how images and archives can be reinterpreted and reclaimed as tools for knowledge and social action.
In a context where visual history is fragmented by media flows, algorithms, and official narratives, the workshop explores the possibilities of the artist’s book as a form of reconfiguring collective memory. Participants will work collaboratively with photographic materials, personal documents, and public archives, seeking to rethink the image as a meeting ground between memory, affect, and politics.
The working process will emphasize adopting a critical perspective on the image, focusing on the editing, design, and materiality of the book. Through discussions and hands-on exercises, the workshop encourages a learning-through-experimentation approach, in which concepts are clarified through process rather than outcome. The book thus becomes an instrument for thinking and negotiating history, an intermediate space between document and fiction, between archive and narrative, between past and present.
The workshop functions both as a laboratory of ideas and as a collective framework for visual exploration, where temporal and material limitations serve as starting points for conceptual innovation.
The activity takes place over two days and is intended for FAVD students interested in visual research, the relationship between art and the archive, and the potential of the image to generate new forms of critical and social thought.

Andrei NACU (b. 1984, Iași) is a visual artist based between London, UK, and Iași, Romania. His artistic practice delves into the intersection of personal memory and social history, often exploring the tensions between the intimate and the collective through documentary photography, family albums, and photographic archives. In his recent work, Nacu expands his practice to include video, installation, and performance, with a keen focus on the political dimensions of art, ethics, and the limitations of representation. His work critically engages with how personal narratives intertwine with larger historical and social contexts. Nacu studied photography at the University of Wales, Newport, UK, and the “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, Romania. He previously served as Archivist & Photo Curator at the Royal Anthropological Institute in London and is currently pursuing a PhD in Arts & Humanities Research at the Royal College of Art.
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The workshop is open to all FAVD students, subject to the availability of places, with priority given to students from the Mural Art department. To declare your interest, please send an email to: [email protected].

The research project “Imperatives of Social Change” is managed by teaching lecturer Andrei Timofte, and funded by The Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art (ICMA) within the “George Enescu” National University of Arts from Iași through the internal research grants for the year 2025.

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