This is a full-time program, lasting 12 weeks (with the possibility of extension) and doesn’t include payment. Deadline: November 15, 2009.

Working in the centre for contemporary art&culture, PAVILION UNICREDIT, as well as being part of the team that edits PAVILION magazine and organizes BUCHAREST BIENNALE offers you the opportunity of examining the role, function and activity of a broad selection of professionals in the cultural field and the role of an institution.

The experience and knowledge accumulated will constitute an informational advantage that can help you build a future career.

Starting date
December 5, 2009

Duration
12 weeks/ 1 available place

Program
Part time (Tuesday – Sunday, 4 work hours)

Conditions for eligibility
Students or university graduates having a strong command of English, ability to work on a computer, wanting to work in cultural management/curating. The centre encourages applications from all academic fields.

Selection
Please send a CV and a one-page essay that should motivate your choice of working with us and what you are seeking through this experience. Due to the large number of requests we usually receive, we reserve the right to answer only to those that were selected.

contact: pavilion@pavilionmagazine.org
http://www.pavilionunicredit.ro/en/index.html

ABOUT US
Most of the 140 million inhabitants of Russia live in communist block of flats, in apartments they call hruschiovi (???hruschiovs???), named after the former communist leader from the ???60s, the period when they were built. But the initiator of the project was actually Stalin. He imagined them and he also turn the project into reality. As a country dominated by Russia for 45 years, Romania may pride itself on the same type of habitat. Hruschiovi have some small kitchenettes, but at least they have them, and this was a big step forward, as compared to the so-called communalki. Kommunalki had common kitchens, common bathrooms and, sometimes, common bedrooms. The idea of the New Man (or ???New Soviet Man???), who has nothing to hide, went into the background. The comfort becomes now the major instrument of the propaganda.

PAVILION UNICREDIT, the center of contemporary art and culture, is located in Victoria Square, being placed at the ground floor of such a building. The aforementioned space became a banking center in 1993 and it has stayed like this for the last 15 years. The actual building of the block started in the years of the communist regime and it was concluded five years after the fall of the communism. The hruschiovi from the center of Bucharest have witnessed the changes of a Stalinist society into a capitalist society, with strong social and political marks. The center uses this space for the implicit messages it conveys, for its location (right across the center of the executive power ??? the Romanian Government building) and, moreover, for its history, so easily forgotten. It is a space for the knowledge and interest in society, city and community.

PU is a work-in-progress independent space, a space for the production and research in the fields of audiovisual, discursive and performative. It is a space of the critical thinking, and it promotes an artistic perspective implying the social and political involvement of the art and of the cultural institutions. Nevertheless, the basic function of the space will remain the concretization.