Why do you love Romania?
by dndjamo
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Title
Why do you love Romania?
Headline
immigration problems within the EU
Concept author(s)
Daniel Nicolae Djamo
Concept author year(s) of birth
1987
Concept author(s) contribution
I am the one who made the work. My art is mainly social, and it needs to be seen and felt by others in order to breath. What I do does not rest secluded from the world, it is not meant to be put aside just for the pleasure of one character, being the world itself, made to aid in changing some perceptions and healing wrongs, bringing to the attention of others things that pass right in their vicinity. I focus on the personal and group histories, stories and poems, while trying to understand different development processes (mainly socio-anthropological) and present them to those willing to hear and see.
Concept author(s) Country
Romania
Friendly Competition
Radical intimacies: dialogue in our times (2014)
Competition category
Visual communication practice
Competition subcategory
web / interactive
Competition field
nonacademic
Competition subfield
artist
Subfield description
The work debates Romania’s position within the EU and people’s perception of the waves of mass migration of recent years. After the integration within the European Union, huge numbers of Romanian immigrants took over the Western countries and managed to give birth to a silent animosity. http://djamo.weebly.com/why-do-you-love-romania.html The way Romania is perceived is quite different than how it used to be 8 years ago (unfortunately). Many Europeans didn’t know where to place Romania on the map before. Now they can. But they know little about the country and pretty much nsidering that the EU is a place of harmony, peace and understanding, we are all supposed to be equal within this union. In February 2014, during Rotterdam Art Week, I asked the people of the Netherlands, my brothers: “Why do you love Romania?” The work was made out of a table, a chair, some pencils, some pieces of paper with that question and a mailbox with my name written on it. http://djamo.weebly.com/why-do-you-love-romania.html
Check out the Radical intimacies: dialogue in our times 2014 outlines of Memefest Friendly competition.
Description of idea
Describe your idea and concept of your work in relation to the festival outlines:
The work debates Romania’s position within the EU and people’s perception of the waves of mass migration of recent years. After the integration within the European Union, huge numbers of Romanian immigrants took over the Western countries and managed to give birth to a silent animosity.
http://djamo.weebly.com/why-do-you-love-romania.html
The way Romania is perceived is quite different than how it used to be 8 years ago (unfortunately). Many Europeans didn’t know where to place Romania on the map before. Now they can. But they know little about the country and pretty much nsidering that the EU is a place of harmony, peace and understanding, we are all supposed to be equal within this union.
In February 2014, during Rotterdam Art Week, I asked the people of the Netherlands, my brothers: “Why do you love Romania?”
The work was made out of a table, a chair, some pencils, some pieces of paper with that question and a mailbox with my name written on it.
http://djamo.weebly.com/why-do-you-love-romania.html
What kind of communication approach do you use?
Participative.
What are in your opinion concrete benefits to the society because of your communication?
Underlining the problems of the EU and the massive right wing movements that started growing within the western countries.
What did you personally learn from creating your submitted work?
That I should be listening much more to others.
Why is your work, GOOD communication WORK?
Because it uses others to create the content, offering them absolute freedom of expression.
Where and how do you intent do implement your work?
I did it in the Netherlands. To be done in Austria, Germany, England, Italy and Spain.
Did your intervention had an effect on other Media. If yes, describe the effect? (Has other media reported on it- how? Were you able to change other media with your work- how?)
No.