ABSTRACT
The artist colony called CarbonART took shape in the summer of 1996 in an abandoned Soviet Young Pioneers summer camp near Sadova. CarbonART 96 was first of its kind in Moldova, and even though “artist camps” or literally “camps of creation” were fairly common in the USSR and other socialist and non-socialist states, this one differed in specifically targeting and inviting “artists who worked with new concepts and modes of artistic expression,” as the newspaper ad posted by the organizer — the recently founded Soros Center for Contemporary Art Chisinau. The main task of CarbonART 96 camp was to spur and inspire the young artists by offering them information on available technological and material possibilities for the production of radically new forms of art. The 6th Kilometer was the center’s main event of 1996, and an opportunity to present to the public the latest forms of local “contemporary” artistic production.
