SURSA group/ARTISTS photos & contacts

BOGDAN Pelmus

















FLORINA Nita














MAGDA Pelmus


















contact:
florinna01@yahoo.com
magdapelmus@yahoo.com
pelmusbogdan@yahoo.com

SURSA / MANIFESTO

SURSA / Launch movie

movie frames from SURSA/Launch/2001

foot note : The Launch movie contain frames with talking personages from diffrent and many kind of social area : a romanian newspaper seller woman, an hungarian artist in his studio, a romanian cosmetician in her beauty saloon, an romanian homeless intellectual, an supermarket romanian seller woman,an software german engineer, 2 school girls on the street, an american software engineer, 2 romanian lovers, a romanian poet, 2 bulgarian artists in a bar; romanian flag in the wind(slow motion) and Madonna's mouth & teeth in a big slow motion smile . All those personages read and speak loud and clear (in their native languages) our group MANIFESTO , in fact some of them only parts of it only the foreigners speak the entire MANIFESTO .

credit: SURSA group

SURSA / Launch

Razvan Alexandrescu










Magda Pelmus













Florina Nita













Magda Pelmus

Bogdan Pelmus

frames from SURSA/Launch/2001

credit: Sursa group

ZONE / concept

"Portion from an area, from an ensemble, from an whole, (de)limited on the base of some distinctive characteristics,of some special circumstances, of a determined destination, e.t.c.."
"Band of frequency in which the oscillations have some common characters."

ZONE 1: NATURAL-HUMAN-MYSTERY

ZONE 2: GOOD TASTE-TASTE GOOD-KITSCH

ZONE 3: PUBLICITY-COLD-DRY

ZONE 4: TO CROWD-TO DEGRADE-TO DISINTEGRATE

This project present a synthesis of the individual and group concerning.
The action involves snapshots/projections of slides and a movie projection in the same time on the same wall. It's almost like a competition between us and our zones.
Creating relations between static(images) and "permanently running" images, the projection has a direct perception. "Side by side" and slide by slide this images make sense, creates a link.
The painting-object's static presence, which cannot be moved from its determined place in the exhibition room,it's going to be transformed by the succession of the slides into a movie, into an action !
The intention begins to be clear with the images brought from outside world( street, nature, media) to support the painting -objects. Those outside images developed the process of making the final object.

foot note :
* relation between:-slides projections;
-movie & slides.
* "game" between individual personality; trying to surprise each other in the time of the action,just by "seeking for" images on slides;
*movie-flashes of moving images;
The movie is going to look like something "anonymous" (unsigned),the intention being to create a link between different zones.
*slides-static images "rolling over" ;
The slides includes images of individual works in relation with images of the social area/zone.

SURSA group/2001

ZONE

frames from ZONE/2001
action-dia-video
artists/performers:Magda Pelmus, Florina Nita, Bogdan Pelmus, Razvan Alexandrescu
credit: SURSA group

ECCE HOMO / text

..."I agree: man is an animal, an animal eminently creative, whom it is meant to aim awared to a target..."

"Man from the catacomb" by F.M. Dostoievski

........................................................................................................................................................................

.............PULS...................PULS......................PULS...........................PULS..............................PULS....

matter.....................matter.....................matter......................matter......................matter...........

......................SOCIAL......................................SOCIAL..........................................SOCIAL......................

SPIRIT..................................SPIRIT..........................................SPIRIT..............................................

.........................HOT....................................HOT...........................................HOT..................

.......portrait...........................portrait....................................portrait.......................................portrait..

...H....................H...............H.................H.................H..................H.................H..................H................

life............life...........life..........life.............life............life.................life..................life.............life...........

.............................................T... R ...A... N... S ...P... A ...R ...E... N ...T..................................................

presencePRESENCEpresencePRESENCEpresencePRESENCEpresencePRESENCEpresence

... F A L U S ....

..................................................VID..............................................................

warm..............warm...................warm.........................warm....................warm.........................warm

........................................................SISIF.........................................

...............................?................................................EMPTY.....................................................

........................................................TO BE.............................................................

...full...full...full...full....full.....full...full...full...full....full.....full...full...full...full....full...full...full...full....

STIGMA............STIGMA.............STIGMA.............STIGMA

personpersonpersonpersonpersonpersonpersonpersonpersonpersonpersonpersonpersonperson

cold.........................cold............................cold.........................cold.........................cold....................cold

x.............x..............x...........x...............x.............x..............x.............x

ephemeral.......................ephemeral...........................ephemeral...................................ephemeral...............

........................L'HOMME.........................L'HOMME..............................L'HOMME.........................

...............................................................................................................

artists: Magda Pelmus & Bogdan Pelmus

SURSA group/2001

ECCE HOMO

frames from ECCE HOMO/2001
video installation palpable
artists: Magda Pelmus & Bogdan Pelmus
credit: SURSA group

UP/text

...he said laughing that he's a HERO...
...we are SURSA(the Source)...
...few more minutes and THE SHOW begins...
...THE MUSEUM is underconstruction...
...I've given birth to a MASTERPIECE again...
...some ARTISTS start to fight...
...one of them had something BIGER...
...THE FAMOUS one passed by here...
...lots of CURATORS visited him...
...BA!...take a breake...
....everything seemed to be ABSTRACT to him...
...some CLOWNS sustains him...
...THE SHOCK is gone...
...he was having a STAMP collection too...
...few FAKES exists...
...ah!...FUCK!...
...lots of COOLS exercise...
...they haveTHE LATEST stuff...
...PRO tv listen to yourself what you see...
...I want to became a STAR cause I deserve it!...
...where could I change few DOLARS?...
...RED YELLOW BLUE is our tricolour...
...too bad he was THE BEST...
...NOBODY wasn't present...

foot note: Those above were writen on paper one by one.And , after we disquised ourselfs in clowns and we made gargle, we shared these notes to the public, from small plastic bags.Each people was getting only one proposition, so they were communicating ,between them,to descover and put together all the small parts from the entire text. That way they REcreated the entire text. We & them , created debated on it. meanwhile, a movie was projected on the gallery's window, that way it was seen both from inside and outside the gallery . The movie presented a man jumping over a fence continuously. The man had ,written on his back,the words bolded in those propositions above. And he jumped over the fence trough the infinite!

SURSA group/UP/2002

UP

frames from UP/2002/
video installation & performance
credit: SURSA group

REW<>FFWD

frames from REW<>FFWD show/2005
video-installation & performance
credit: SURSA group

REW<>FFWD/text/2005

...about a brain's perversion...
Once upon a time and overlap on 7 horses and on a way, and at least on a saddle,etc...while the sheeps were with some wolfs,...the wolfs were very in love and once it was like never more and THE FEAR(of small people) doesn't exist...A BRAIN on and inside a head.

...or about relex!...
It's a long, LONG TIME since THEN. The brain was diminishing so fast, like the wind,like the sun,whom though was slowly, slowly shining, and then much slower like the water living its speedy flow to some place,exactly, just so exactly like the air inhalated by a HUMAN lung or a COW lung.

...or about returning!...
...and the head lives and grows in THICKNESS................about that time it was born THESAME another BRAIN. A brain EXACTLY the same with the one existing long time ago. For the others, just EXACTLY the same, it was hard to belive how such MIRACLES happened(they say).

...or about still-hunting!...
...and THE HUNTER just stoped watching when we entered, without realizing, into a hall, aside...
And he, TheSameBrain, was growing and growing suddenly, very SUDDENLY quick! Together,I'm thinking, arised another small, old SMALL story. A story about everybody, just EVERYBODY knew it'll exist, cause it was existing anyhow.

...or about mysteries!...
That was the entire problem(of geometry<>algebra). The result already exists. The world was a small result, living its result cause it is believed to be resolved ; it feels safe.

...or, better, about experience!...
TheSameBrain was trying to talk and to be a GOOD FRIEND with them and yet...he failed. He knew and he completly realized that they understood him, he feels them, he loves them, he cries about them and he waits for them.

...or about "this is a begining of a good friendship"!...
TheSameBrain and TheMatureOne were seeing each other every Day...but they doesn't know each other cause he was TheSameBrain and the other one TheMatureOne and he was so LONELY too.
(to be continued)
text by Bogdan Pelmus

foot note: The movie it's about a cam spying a window trough we see people moving back and forward continuosly, doing things, also in the movie apear atlets feet running in slow motion speed and other runners. Back and forward = that's the motion and the point of the movie.
The performance is about us building with (toy) bricks and then demolishing everything, over and over again,on a round mirror . Back and forward = that's the point.
It's all about rew<>ffwd over and over again!

SURSA group/2005

LOADING

frames from Loading performance
performers: Magda Pelmus & Florina Nita
credit: SURSA group(Magda Pelmus,Florina Nita,Bogdan Pelmus)

HOW CAN WE COMMUNICATE USING A PLASTIC KNIFE/HIBRID 8 featuring SURSA group with LOADING performance/concept

Many times Schemes can be memorated and worst,even used continuously.
This is not a performance,it's an experiment.The questions doesn't stop at the answers.Them recreate a space,"battle-field",with a strong position in contemporary social system(society).The answer transform the question,and on the other way the question transform the answer,looking for the border between artificial and natural.
Where does the natural ending and where's the beginnig of the artificial?
How much is it truth and how much is fake?
The 2 identical performing personage are punched with a sigle,like those SF heroes are,already common,invented by the society(Superman,Batman,Spiderman,and so on).But they communicate separated ,not knowing what question or what answer they're going to get.
Is it there automatism or cliche in the contemporary society?
Supersaturating?
This experiment has its own place in the delikat-ed area of communication!

foot note: The following are the questions and answers writen, on the gallery's window,by the 2 identical performing personages.The window was prepared before with chocolate strips on both sizes of the glass window.

1.What did the arbitrators say?
1.On 8 and 10 they enjoy their succes,on 12,13 and 21 the inspiration is remarcable.

2.They fight live!
2.How can we play, then?

3.Boy,what do you say?
3.Breast's asymmetry, in the matter of their size,form or their positioning, it's not a problem.

4.What are your coordonates?
4.Breaking the bone to extract the marrow!

5.How much shit can u eat?
5.How could I answer to you?

SURSA group/2oo5/show in colaboration with HIBRID 8
performers: Magda Pelmus & Florina Nita & Bogdan Pelmus(SURSA group)
curators of the project "How to communicate using a plastic knife" -HIBRID 8 : Theo Pelmus & Bogdan Pelmus

CURRICULUM VITAE

launched in Bucharest,Romania/2001

members: Magda Pelmus,Florina Nita,Bogdan Pelmus

founders: Magda Pelmus & Bogdan Pelmus

mediums: instalation,audio-video,photo,painting

SHOWS

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2006 I'M GOING GLOCAL, curators Saskia Te Nicklin(DK)& Octavian Neagu(DK)/ Glocal History-performance, D-K-I Danish Cultural Institute , Kecskemet , HU ; KO.KE.M. Contemporary Art Museum & Gallery , Miercurea Ciuc , RO ; LOADING - open lab ,Bucharest , RO ; HT003 Gallery , Bucharest , RO
2005 HOW CAN WE COMMUNICATE USING A PLASTIC KNIFE/video -installation & LOADING performance/Caminul Artei gallery,Bucharest, Romania;

REW<>FFWD/videoinstallation/painting/performance,CaminulArteiGallery,BucharestRomania;

2oo2 UP/video-installation/performance,Caminul Artei,Bucharest,Romania;

2001 ECCE HOMO/video-installation palpable,Atelier35 gallery,Bucharest,Romania;

ZONE/action/dia-video,S.P.A.C.E. gallery,International Centre forContemporary Art,Bucharest,Romania;

SURSA-Launch/video-installation/painting,Museum of RomanianLiterature,Bucharest, Romania.