What is your story, how did you get to live in a center for domestic violence survivors? I have been married for 18 years, it was a marriage out of love, we had a child and it was ok until the greater responsibilities came, with the child, the kindergarten, the school, all of these. Then the real problems started, without notice, so I believe it is a thing that takes you by surprise, or if you do realize it is happening, you say to yourself: ”maybe we’ll manage, after all”, but in the end you see that you don’t. I…
IUDITH ARDELEANU I’m a humble person. Still, I imagine the house of the future like this: bedroom, dining room, hall, kitchen, a terrace with window shades and flowers. A flower garden in front of the house. All built on the ground. The rooms will have big windows. I’m against air conditioning which only blows the dust. Regardless of how far this future is, the important thing is to breathe clean air. I have the cult of clean air, of clear sky. The cleaning will be done by different machines, but is important for the people to be present, to be…
By Alexandra Banu, Alexandru Boicu, Alexandru Marian Stancu, Alina Bușă, Andreea Vidroi, Bianca Fieraru, Bogdan Petre, Denis Aptiș, Denis Boicu, Ionuț Dedu, Leila Aptiș, Mario Oncescu, Melisa Nicolae, Mihaela Chiscov, Nicoleta Mitran, Rebeca Tudorache, Selgean Aptiș, Ștefan Mutcu, Tudania Aptiș In March and April 2016, for four weeks, several students in the elementary school number 136 from Ferentari district in Bucharest participated in a workshop held by members of the G.A.P team, where we have all shared our wishes, aspirations and ideas about the future of dwelling. The children are members in the Alternative Education Club, founded in 2010 by…
Cristi J. about living and working abroad in the 1990s Like many Romanians, after the Revolution, Cristi went to work in Germany. He crossed the border, he occupied an abandoned house, and passed by Rostock in the very night when some hundreds of fascists were attacking a home that was sheltering thousands of migrants and asylum seekers from Eastern Europe (including Romania). I went to Germany in 1992-1993. A sister of mine had went there with her husband and we were talking on the phone every night and she was going on and on about how we should come too,…
Interview with Liliana Nechita Liliana Nechita (b. Angheluță) was born in 1968 and she is currently living in Italy. Back in 2013 “Avantaje” magazine published her testimonial in their “The exodus of the mothers” project and by 2014 her book “Bitter Cherries” was printed by Humanitas. How long have you been living in Italy and what kind of jobs did you have? I’ve been living there for more than 9 years and I’ve worked all sorts of jobs, I didn’t pick and choose, I couldn’t afford that. What made you to write Bitter Cherries? I began writing Bitter Cherries the…
From the 19th of September until the 10th of October, GAP team holds a series of workshop sessions, focused on developing various methodologies and understanding practices, centered on a socio-political approach on contemporary art.
