Romania
Version magazine is an editing project initiated by the Romanian artists Gabriela Vanga, Mircea Cantor and Ciprian Muresan in 2001. The magazine started as an artist initiative, an experimental platform outside the institutional framework with a goal to confront different social and political realities as well as geographical and historical contexts. Until 2003, the members of Version magazine acted as an artist group under the collective name “Super Us.” The magazine provides an open field for discussions and debates and creative space for artists, curators, scientists, architects, historians, anthropologists, and poets. The publication’s structure avoids the usual divisions between categories/disciplines/fields as the crossover stereotype, bridging a gap between art and other domains of creation. Its life cycle is based on free contributions from artists and authors from different fields, and a carte blanche is given to a new guest editor for each issue.