The Performance Art Institute and Romanian Cultural Institute present the performance and visual arts installations Badly Happy. Pain, Pleasure and Panic in Recent Romanian Art and As Far As I Can Tape.
Through the diverse and sometimes discordant media of performance & video art, painting, graphics, and objects, the exhibits will convey in visual terms the psyche of a world caught in the destructive and regenerative tornado triggered by the thrilling collapse of communism and its replacement with Wild West-style capitalism in 1989. The clash between this new, exciting, but ultimately disappointing reality and the nostalgia for an idealized experience of regained freedom propelled a disquieting, inciting and vivid artistic output.