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- 15 August 2002 The Singeorz-Bai Sculpture Symposium
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An artist talkiing about his work to regional television We arrived halfway through this on the morning of August 8th. To what we made Our invitation had been vague and so we had no idea and little expectation and were surprised that it was so well organized, that things were in full swing. |
 Christophe Doucet on the right and his sculpture which he later called "Laura" after a brand name on the chocolate we got with our beverages. He had burned out the centre. Click for more about this work. |
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But it was the assistants who were working so hard. Here on the left is Dan after sharping the blades and on the right is one of the artists (M) watching while another assistant (in the photo on the right) work on his sculpture.
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 by the time we arrived; Ionel Cojacariu (Bucharest) sanding his sculpture; Miron Duca (Bistrita) in the background and an Orthdox (seated) priest watching. |
Left to Right: Dan (assistant) standing; another assistant helping ????? (Bistrisa) who started out as an assistant but was making a sculpture of his own
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Some photos taken by Christophe before we arrived. |
 More photos taken by Christophe before we arrived. Ionel inside a cane form made by Maxim. |
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...more to come... in november or december... |
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| On arriving Sen went straight to work.
A day after our arrival, Maxim had organized ten kilo of rice and glue for Sen's work. |
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Sen's
poetic gesture, blowing rice onto bark. |
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Click on the image for a larger view of the 'riced' tree (80kb). Go to Sen's site where this work is discussed in more detail |
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August 9th: Left to Right: Sonja, Dudu (the translator) and Dan (one of Sonja's two assistants) 
Photo: Leidi Haaijer. |
Of course, the one who really did the hard work was the man with the chainsaw. Photos: Leidi Haaijer. |
Sonja
hard at work. |
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 Click on the image for an larger view To August 23rd |
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August 15th: The performance, A Rite of Passage  Photo: Christophe Doucet. |
 Photo: Christophe Doucet, France. |
Left to right: Dudu, (the shearer), Toroa (the man-boy), and Sonja (the mother in black)
For the opening of the Sculpture Symposium, we did the performance 'A Rite of Passage'. Here my long-haired 11-year-old son sat while Tudor Cordos cut all his hair off. At first the crowd wanted him to stop, but later they were encouraging him to do a better job! Toroa is at the point of moving from childhood to adulthood and the cutting of his hair, which I then collected and spread out onto successive pages of an illustrated book of Romanian folk tales, symbollised this passage. |
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The idea for this performance began when discussing Dudu's own shaven head and Toroa's abundance of hair and that now Toroa was about to enter High School, the need to cut his hair so he wouldn't look so child-like.
So we decided to turn the necessary haircut into an performance during the opening of the Sculpture Symposium on August 15th. Dudu cut, while Sonja caught the hair in a bowl and then sprinkled the successively shorter hairs onto the open pages of the book on Toroa's knees. |
 A More detailed account of the performance |
| Meanwhile on the right (behind the table) Tama was engaged in pouring water into bottles, from the park restaurant, and then blowing over them.
He was engaged, doing research according to and with the confidence of his child-world rules. |  Photos: Christophe Doucet, France. |