We are ArtiViStory Collective.
We co-create artworks within (Y)OUR projects.
You innovate with us.
Contact usAbout us
We are a community of artists, curators, researchers and other professionals in interdisciplinary areas working together for social engagement. We express through comics and sequential art, but also through other socially engaged contemporary art forms or discourses.Our practice is based on the belief that art is always connected to real situations, contexts, processes and should be directly involved in the society, either by reflecting on the usual aspects of everyday life, by stirring reactions, conversations or discourse on different specific subject matters, or by engaging in projects and processes that act for the wellbeing of our communities.
Working with a specific methodology, we document in visual forms the visible and invisible macro and micro processes around, in order to share unsighted details of mechanisms developed within different projects. Through visual documentaries (storytelling in comics and sequential art), we bring closer to the community and different target audiences the vision, the goals or the stages of implementation of these projects and the actors involved in their development, as well as the co-creative processes that underlie and generate them, thus rendering visible not only the results but the whole mechanism of the projects. Our focus is to identify the invisible aspects of ecosystems interconnectedness and to make them visible through creative practices, while joining the conceptual and methodological research process.
Our purpose
We aim to participate in socially engaged projects that seek to build a robust ecosystem and provide new contexts and practices for developing and improving the wellbeing of young people, through co-creation, visual communication, mediation, facilitation (image-text content), documentation, representation and reinterpretation of transformative processes through narrative art.Our process can become an innovative tool that entrepreneurs can access to make their business and especially their field of activities and services known in the community and reach their target audience more easily, in a creative and contemporary manner.
Our Method
We pursue a process of disclosure from inside out and, as part of the documentation strategy, our artists will build their own glossary of concepts, iconic images, symbols, slogans or keywords that they use to construct the social visual discourses. These terms will become embedded in the world that the artists imagine and will be used as tools to activate the audience, as a laboratory to generate awareness, self-analysis and individual and collective engagement in the process. We primarily use sequential art, illustration and narrative pictograms, documentary comics, urban comics, but also other art forms.Team
Visual research, art direction and curation
Visual research and art creation
Collaborating artists
Horațiu Coman, Ștefan Sebastian, Erdély Bálint, Zsófia Bernát, Oliviana Fudulache, Alexandru Papa, Diana Florescu, Dariana Ilie, Carla Oros, Andra Roman, Lucian BarbuProjects
Exhibitions & cultural mediation
Publications
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Conferences
- The National Conference of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts / UBB / Faculty of History and Philosophy, September 2022
- Youth Summit 7.0. Roots, FTC, Pont Group, CTR, September 2022
- The Culture and Well-Being Forum: Culture for Health, Cluj Cultural Center, October 2022
- Vizualia National Student Festival, Cluj-Napoca, November 2022
- Astra Museum Conferences - Marketing and Education in Museums, November 2022
- CIVIC & MEDIA ENGAGEMENT, Journalism and Digital Media Department, FSPAC, UBB 2022
- Let's inSPIRE! UIA SPIRE Baia Mare Final Event, June 2023
- Artivistory Collective Narrative Recording Performance for Lights On Press Conference, The Night Art Festival 2023
- Artivistory Collective Narrative Recording Performance for Lights On, Culture of Nightlife Conference, The Night Art Festival 2023
Workshops
- 2022 Workshop inSPIRE Master Plans state of implementation, Baia Mare, Romania
- 2022 Workshop Find My INNER Hero, and reflexive activity using Activating Urban Imaginaries through Art: A Reflective Activity, Youth summit 2022 Cluj, FTC Cluj, Students House, Cluj-Napoca
- 2023 Workshop Urban comics, Narrative wall construction in Spire Hub, Baia Mare
- 2023 Workshop urban comics, CCC Cluj, Lerning QUB, BUILDING MY FUTURE CITY - GREEN CITY Cluj-Napoca, Romania 13 May 2023
- 2023 Workshop urban comics, CCC Cluj, Lerning QUB, BUILDING MY FUTURE CITY - GREEN CITY Cluj-Napoca, Romania 25 May 2023
- 2023 Workshop urban comics , OUR CITY, CONNECTING THE YOUTH ECOSYSTEM - CLUJ YOUTH EVENT, Cluj Youth Federation, Students' Culture House
- 2023 Qub Days CCC, Learning QUB
- 2023. Talk Socks Night Workshop! Project realized with Department of Sculpture from The University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca and Lights On, as part of The Night Art Festival, Timișoara
- 2023 International Urban Comics Workshop- DECODING THE CITY - UAD
- 2023 Rural Stories & Urban Comics I
- 2023 Rural Stories & Urban Comics II
- 2023 Workshop TalkSocks - Lights On Festival Cluj-Napoca
- 2023 CHARACTER DESIGN- CLAY MODELLING WORKSHOP
- Reflective Activity, analysis and debate by activating the imagination through the posters accompanying #Truth2040 Toolkit: ARE YOU READY FOR THE FUTURE?
- 2023 WORKSHOP [INTERSECTIONS - ONE PAGE COMICS IN RELIEF PRINTING]
