REMIX ID*, project created by META Spațiu Association, is one of the most valuable Romanian initiatives to recover the traditions and history of the ethnic communities of Banat, and will be presented in Austria to the Viennese public.
Therefore, from 24-30 June 2024, the life stories, influence and ethnic heritage of the ethnic communities of the Banat region and Timișoara, which have decisively influenced the mentality and collective identity of Romania, especially in the western part of the country, will be the subject of an exhibition by the artist Renée Renard in Vienna, at Eindorf Kunstraum gallery.
During the period in which the exhibition, accompanied by a Remix ID video installation, will be on view, the Viennese public is invited to participate to workshops, presentations, concerts and conferences on the impact that multiculturalism in the region has had and is having on the present and future of Timișoara and the Western region, held by Mirela Stoeac-Vladuti, Olga Török, Cristian Vicol, Renée Renard, Denise Parizek, Miruna Robescu and others.
REMIX ID - VOICES OF FREEDOM focuses on how minorities in Banat, nostalgia for the Central European past, and the (often traumatic) ethnic emigration of the 1970s and 1980s generated a dissident sentiment among Timisoara's inhabitants, one of the driving forces behind the anti-communist revolution that started in Timisoara on 15 December 1989.
Remix ID is a Romanian cultural project of the META Spațiu Association, whose aim is to recover, through collaborations with music producers, composers, visual artists and writers, the traditions, music, customs, and history of the ethnic groups of Banat, one of the most diverse and multicultural areas of Europe. Started in 2018, the Remix ID project thus aims to create a dialogue between the vibrancy of the village and the frenzy of the city. Created together with artists who have been documenting the cultural typologies of rural and urban environments for 6 years, its activities superimpose the technologized world over the archetypal countryside life of today and the past.
In 2019, Remix ID received a mention from the Austrian Ministry for European and International Relations in the "Intercultural Achievement Award" for bridging "past and present using art and technology by reproducing the stories of the ethnic groups of Banat - a place of diversity, intercultural exchange and cohabitation. The documentation and interviews they have taken with representatives of the various historical ethnicities facilitate access to these traditions for those interested, especially for young people, by remixing music and transforming traditional symbols and objects into contemporary art."
Full programme of activities:
Monday 24.06.2024
18.00 Open Doors Vernissage
19.00 Vernissage "Voices Of Freedom", Artists Renee Renard and Remix ID
19.30 Workshop "Schwabenhaus" by Miruna Robescu for children (workshop for children aged 7 to 12 in German, English and Romanian)
20.00 Presentation of Remix ID in the context of the Revolution in Timișoara 1989 by Olga Török
20.30 Remix ID Music by U.Kustik
Thursday 27.06.2024
19.00 Guided tour and artist talk by Renee Renard
Friday 28.06.2024
18.00 Guided tour by Mirela Stoeac-Vlăduți (Remix ID Timișoara)
18.30 Art talk "Voices of Freedom" by Mirela Stoeac Vlăduți (Remix ID- Timișoara) and Denise Parizek (Pogmahon-Wien), special guests Virgiulius Moldovan and Gabriel Kohn.
Saturday 29.06.2024
11.00 Conference Disintegrating worlds - the literature of the ethnic people of Banat and the feeling of the '89 Revolution in Romania by Cristian Vicol, PhD (Remix ID- Timișoara)
Organizer: Asociația META Spatiu
Financed by: Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) – Cantemir Programme
Parteners: Eindorf Kunstraum, Pogmahon Company, Timișoara 2023
Media partners: forumul cultural austriac
Graphic: Josépha Blanchet
Website:https://www.remixid.ro/
Social media:https://www.facebook.com/remixedidentity/ &https://www.instagram.com/remixedid/
Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/@remixid402
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*This project is co-financed by the Romanian Cultural Institute, through the Cantemir Programme - a funding programme for cultural projects for the international environment.
The Romanian Cultural Institute is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used.These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.
