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”the mivc graduating class of 2023 has worked extremely hard to put together this event and hope that you will be able to join us as we open the doors and invite you to experience what we have been working on!

by combining the notion of an open studio and an exhibition we created a curated event where we bring our studio projects into a curated space to hold a public event that propels the discourse around our artistic practice and research
each individual artist or designer was not confined by an overarching theme that may not have resonated with their research. instead, they were encouraged to present the work in a way that suits their practice
for the curation of the event, we have divided the space by pathway. this show exhibited pieces from the master institute of visual cultures graduating class of 2023’s work in progress as we brought the research out of the studios and into the exhibition space”

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”through staged and filmed performances, radu-mihai explores the eastern european masculine identity and speculative male archetypes. he uses as a jumping point his own romanian identity, along with local traditions and subcultures that are directly linked to the male (balkan) condition, in hopes of discovering new ways to embody his new migrant identity.

radu-mihai’s artistic research is focused on creating video art pieces that act as abstract personal journals, in which aspects of romanian and dutch migrant culture are fused together and discussed.
in most of these “video journals”, the focus is put on five unnamed characters that each could be considered a “caricature” of some aspects of migrant life. the narrative is often times somewhat abstract, and the work tends to be very self-referential.”

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the open studio exhibition was a project i started along with other students as a preparatory step in having our graduation show be exhibited somewhere outside of the university, in a larger, more appropriate space. to prepare for this, in our thrid semester we organized a walk-in open studio, where students were encouraged to share their latest work and thesis research with the broader public.

behind the scenes, alot of meetings were done internally by me; on one side with my fellow visual arts students whom i represented, and on the other, with my other representatives, to make sure proper mediation and coordination was ensured across different departments. the bulk of the work was coming up with and supervising the different work teams that would have been responsible for production, curation, social media etc. this was done through multiple check-in meetings within and throughout the three departments.

in the end, the exhibition was a resounding success and it allowed us to further push the university into providing us with more practical activities and more visibility for the hard work that the students do on a daily basis. we hope that what we accomplished here will continue to be a tradition for the next generations to come.

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