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Ember – a show by Judith State premiering at WASP Working Art Space and Production

15 October 2022 by with comment off

event part of the Life Long Burning (LLB) – Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe

4Culture Association announces the premiere of EMBER, by Judith State, on 21 and 22 October, 7pm, at WASP – Working Art Space and Production, 67-93 Ion Minulescu Street, Bucharest.

  • Duration: 1h.
  • After the performance, the audience is invited to a discussion with the artistic team.
  • Tickets are available on eventbook.ro

Together with actor István Téglás and musician Radu Dumitriu, well-known dancer and choreographer Judith State developed the show EMBER with the support of the European network Life Long Burning and was nominated by the 4Culture Association (co-organizer within the network) as a Creative Crossroads artist for 2020-2022.

“Something from childhood and something from playing, something from the seriousness and anxiety of adulthood, a little bit of how we love at different ages and how we sometimes wish we could stop time. Memories. Images that our minds randomly decide to keep and project over and over again.

A small capsule for future intelligence.

Ember means human.” 

The Life Long Burning (LLB) project is coordinated and implemented by a network of 11 European partners, associations, companies and production companies, and through its actions it supports the development of the contemporary dance and performance scene in Europe. In Romania, the 4Culture Association, co-organizer of LLB since 2008, organises annual events and activities to promote and support Romanian artists and choreographers. Also, out of the desire for artistic cultural exchange as a partner, the association hosts and promotes performances developed within the framework of international activities organised by the other members of the project.

This year through the Dance Hub 2022 residencies organized by the 4Culture Association and co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund, the artist duos: Cosmina Moroșan, Anticorp Solar and Cristina Bodnărescu, Anamaria Guguian, selected following an open call, will present to the public two performances made during the residency in Romania, and will also host the performance of the artist group from Croatia Marijana Cvetković, Bojan Djordjev, Mirjana Dragosavljević, Siniša Ilić and Igor Koruga, a performance developed within the “Creative Crossroads Remote Residency”, organised by the project partner Kik Melone.

On 20 October, at 19:00, the show  “Felt trowel. Hominescence and individuation.” by duo Cosmina Moroșan and Anticorp Solar: “We put forward a kind of practice which springs from the life that creates events: intensities when thought / affect / materiality branch in manyfold ways. The performative mapping  assumes a talk about individuation and placement.”

And, on 28 October from 19:00, there will be a double event promoting the performances of the Life Long Burning (LLB) project: the interactive show by Cristina Bodnărescu and Anamaria Guguian: “Digital Heaven” and the performance by Croatian artists Marijana Cvetković, Bojan Djordjev, Mirjana Dragosavljević, Siniša Ilić and Igor Koruga: “Dance Till the New Dawn”.

The interactive show by Cristina Bodnărescu and Anamaria Guguian, with music by Ethics of Joy (Cristina Bodnărescu, George Urse) “explores the dialogue between the dancer and her digital double at the intersection and colliding of the two worlds. Adopting an aesthetic of bodily disappearance, in “Digital Heaven” the internal contradictions of identity are not resolved, but are made manifest.”

The performance by Marijana Cvetković, Bojan Djordjev, Mirjana Dragosavljević, Siniša Ilić and Igor Koruga: “Dance Till the New Dawn” questions the access to art in today’s social and political context and seeks to answer the questions ”who does have the right to art? to whom does it belong? Who needs it?”.

The participation at the three Dance Hub Resident events is free of charge. 

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Producer: 4 Culture Association, WASP Studios

Project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund AFCN. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.

Project co-financed within Life Long Burning – Towards A Sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe by the European Union – Creative Europe Programme.

Supported by: UFERSTUDIOS (Berlin), VEEM HOUSE FOR PERFORMANCE (Amsterdam) – in the framework of Creative Crossroads, Life Long Burning activity.

Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin Magazine, ARTA Magazine, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă

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(Ro) OPEN CALL – And what art can do about it?

23 September 2022 by with comment off

OPEN CALL – And what art can do about it?

dedicated to interdisciplinary visual artists (new media, multimedia, cross-media artists)

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 05.10.2022

Deadline for application: 30.09.2022

Period: 4.10 – 4.11.2022

The project ‘And what art can do about it?’ questions a recurring theme in contemporary society, namely the relationship between art and eco-socio-political crises. At the invitation of the WASP space, which in 2022 celebrates 10 years of activity, curator Anca Rujoiu and artist Irina Botea Bucan, join an investigation and analysis of the proposed theme, together with curator Andreea Capitanescu.

The solidarity of the international community in the crisis of the war in Ukraine and the eco-climatic crisis that was born in the wake of this disaster is perhaps unprecedented, therefore making us think about this project. The proximity of the aggression and the impact of the media – which broadcasts non-stop information and images from the scene – completely captured our attention and everyone tried to help unconditionally. The effects of the war will be long-lasting and will leave a legacy that will be hard to overcome.

But social crises, military conflicts and political repression have always occurred in different corners of the world. In order to better understand and discover how these crises have been and are being managed by artists, curators and theorists, we set out to develop a project that would offer through dialogue and creative space, exhibition opportunities and new collaborations between artists from Romania and other European and global territories.

Timeline of the project:

The project outlines the creative process through the laboratory and discursive platform, coordinated by artist Irina Botea Bucan and curator Anca Rujoiu. These activities aim to support the 8 selected artists in the realization of new productions based on the artistic concept presented in the documents provided at registration.

During the development period there will be: 5 lectures, 2 workshops and 1 artist presentation.

The project will be finalised with a group exhibition at WASP Working Art Space and Production.

How to apply:

In order to apply the candidates should provide the following documents in English:

  • resume / CV
  • short description of the proposed artistic concept to be developed within the project frame, including technical details.
  • comprehensive portfolio (A4, PDF format, not more than 10 Mb; video works or documentation in AVI, WMV or QuickTime format should be up to 500mb in total). Please provide a link to download using free transfer services like Dropbox.com or Wetransfer.com

All materials should be sent to: contact@waspmagazine.com, until 30.09.2022, 00:00

Support:

  • Based on the contract the artists will receive fees and the production costs will be provided for new work developed in the laboratory.
  • The organisers reserve the right to make changes to event dates

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Producer: WASP Studios

Co-producer: 4 Culture Association

Project co-financed by the Bucharest City Hall through ARCUB within the Affective Bucharest Program 2022. For detailed information about the financing program of the Bucharest City Hall through ARCUB, you can access www.arcub.ro .

The cultural project is co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN). It does not necessarily represent the position of AFCN. The AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the manner in which the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.

Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Modernism, Revista Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă

DD Dorvillier - A catalogue of steps

► During the during. A catalogue of steps ► DD Dorvillier

16 November 2020 by with comment off

► During the during. A catalogue of steps ► DD Dorvillier

Structured in a very intuitive way, A catalogue of steps was born out of a need for distance and reflection in examining my own history and reasons for dancing and making – figuring out how to deal with an artistic past that felt very different from my present and evolving one.

Its processual, archival, and multifaceted nature resembles that of a research project with an extended shelf-life. Unlike an archive stored in an old closet or hard drive, A catalogue of steps is a living project that asks to be visited and experienced at work, “during the during”.

In this online presentation I’ll unpack some of the main practices of our research. Beyond the accumulation of public visits in amazing places that the project represents, what holds my interest most deeply today is the experience of reflecting together on, in and with a dance, of observing how dances once made for long-gone places can hold many spaces at once including new and current ones, how learning a dance can be progressive rather than retrospective, and how dance affects language and language produces dance.

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Through her artistic practice, DD Dorvillier has always challenged pre-established definitions, including her own, of dance and choreography. By building works through physical, conceptual, and philosophical approaches she researches the complex relationships between gesture, spectatorship, embodiment, language, and perception, in a playful yet urgent manner. An approach to sound, light, and objects as quasi-linguistic materials is at the heart of her process. In recent years she has developed a special attention to how place and site inform her artistic work.

Before moving to France in 2010, she lived and worked in New York City for 20 years. In 1991 she and dancer/choreographer Jennifer Monson created the Matzoh Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For over a decade the studio was a grassroots haven for wild experimentation where artists congregated for shows, rehearsals and readings.

 

Her works have been extensively presented and produced in Europe and New York and she has received numerous awards. In 2008 she was artistic mentor (alongside Trajal Harrell) of the DanceWeb program at ImPulsTanz. She worked as Associated artist-researcher with the exerce MA program at ICI – CCN in Montpellier 2017-19 and is now the Associated Artist at the Centre de développement chorégraphique national (CDCN) “Le Dancing” in Dijon, France. In 2019 she and composer Sébastien Roux inaugurated La Corvette, a new grassroots space for research and experimentation in dance and music, in rural Burgundy, France.

 

DD Dorvillier was guest artist in Bucharest at eXplore festival 2019 edition, with No Change, or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” – a performance that has been considered a reference for the artist’s later works.

 

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The presentation is organized within the project SCORES ON A CATALOGUE OF STEPS
Production: WASP Studios, Co-Production: 4Culture Association

The project does not necessarily represent the position of The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The Administration of the National Cultural Fund is not responsible for the content of the project or the manner in which the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.

 

Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, ARTA Magazine, Designist, feeder.ro, IQads, Romania Pozitiva

Photo credit: DD Dorvillier

New video-art creations within Zoom In/Out. Immaterial performance project

25 October 2020 by with comment off

Developed by 4Culture Association in partnership with Romanian Order of Architects – Bucharest branch, National Heritage Institute, Life Long Burning European network and Bucharest Architecture Annual 2020, “Zoom In / Out-Immaterial performance” project invited contemporary artists active in visual arts, cinematography and  performing arts field, in an approach to research the theme of housing and the effects that the deprivation of direct contact with the environment – the market, the office, the nature, have on the perception of time and body.

In times when the routine of a program that keeps the time-space relationship in the same framework like we were used to, by providing precise landmarks, is expanding, making room for a gray perception area, the project proposes an artistic introspection approach on our position in society, on the roles we play and on the absurd of living when space becomes singular. These have been translated into practices that aims to modify or even change what determines the body ecology and the experience of living, through a series of video art creations that spread a message of hope that things can be different.

The performing spaces are contemporary achievements of Bucharest architects, works awarded by international juries within the Bucharest Architecture Annual. Photos realized by Diana Păun, visual artist.

Anton Pann Memorial House 

Authors: Constantin Goagea, Justin Baroncea, Anastasia David, Alexandru Condrea (Zeppelin Design)

Prize of the „Interior Design / Exhibitions, expo-stands and scenography Design” section, Bucharest Architecture Annual 2019

Gastrolab

Authors: arh. Sorin Istudor, arh. Kalliopi Dimou, arh. Claudia Trufaș, arh. Ștefan Păvăluță (skaarchitects)

Project nominated at the “Interior design architecture / hotel-restaurant-café design” section, Bucharest Architecture Annual 2019

Office Building, 32 Dorobanti Street

Author: arh. Dan Marin (Ideart)

Prize of the “Built Architecture / Public Architecture” section, Bucharest Architecture Annual 2019

The video creations were premiered, within the dialogue between Emil Ivănescu, Bucharest Architecture Annual’s curator, OAR Bucharest president and Andreea Căpitănescu, curator and artistic director eXplore festival. The dialogue was broadcasted online in the frame of eXplore festival # 15, on October 25, 2020.

Event details and the recorded dialogue here ->  https://fb.me/e/cRwhwHbhb

Emil Ivănescu is architect and president of the Romanian Order of Architects – Bucharest Branch. In 2004, he graduated Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism and in 2011 the PhD in architecture, with the work: „Corpul postorganic și arhitectura ambiguității” (”The Postorganic Body and the Architecture of Ambiguity”). In 2012 Emil won the contest for designing the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and in 2014 the design for the Romanian Cultural Institute Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

4Culture Association, WASP Studios and OAR Bucharest / Architecture Annual started their partnership  within Ergonomica project in 2017 and continued with Performance, Architecture and Landscape in 2019.

Andreea Căpitănescu is a Ph.D candidate at National University of Arts in Bucharest, artist, choreographer and performer, president and co-founder partner of 4Culture Association. She initiated and developed several international projects, as cultural manager, curator and artist: eXplore festival – International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival (since 2005), European projects Life Long Burning (2013-2018, 2018-2022) and Jardin d’Europe (2008-2013), EEA Grants Foreign bodies (2014-2016), WASP – Working Art Space and Production, Bucharest (independent space for contemporary art, founded in 2012), curator and artistic director of WASP Studios (since 2015), curator for performaning arts programme of Europalia Arts Festival (2019-2020).

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Artistic team:

Andreea Căpitănescu, curator

Ilinca Hărnuț, Diana Spiridon, Flavia Giurgiu, Geta Corca, Vlad Benescu, choreography and performance

Alexandru Mihai, cinematography, edit and color grading

Andrei Raicu, sound design

Diana Păun, visual artist

Emil Ivănescu, architect

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Zoom In/Out. Immaterial performance

Producer: 4Culture Association

Co-Producer: WASP Studios

Cultural project co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and Life Long Burning – Towards A Sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Partners: Romanian Order of Architects – Bucharest Branch,  National Heritage Institute, 2020 Bucharest Architecture Annual, The National Romanian Literature Museum

Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Designist, feeder.ro, IQads, România Pozitivă

The project does not necessarily represent the position of The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The Administration of the National Cultural Fund is not responsible for the content of the project or the manner in which the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.

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Urban Incursions in the Visual // discussions with Ilinca Păun Constantinescu, Micheline Dufert, Manon Istasse, moderator Andreea Căpitănescu

22 October 2020 by with comment off

The Urban incursions in the visual project is a continuation of WASP Studios‘ efforts to investigate the relationship between art and public space, between built heritage and nature, with a main focus on body memory and community.

Conceived as a transdisciplinary project, Urban incursions in the visual brings together professionals from the field of visual arts, new media and performance, with architects and urban planners from Romania and Belgium.

Ilinca Păun Constantinescu, Micheline Dufert, Manon Istasse are invited to a discussion moderated by Andreea Căpitănescu, on Friday, 23.10.2020, from 15:00, online on the  WASP Magazine and eXplore festival pages.
The recorded discussion will be available to the online public from October 23 to November 5, 2020.

Micheline Dufert – urban explorer, in the company of her partner Francis Pourcel, route tracers who break the territorial barriers of their city in Charleroi. Through their blog – cheminsdesterrils.be – and their exploratory guided tours, Micheline questions the links of love / hate towards the landscape. Micheline tries telling a story about the landscape and together they “made” the Black Loop.

The Black Loop: through industrial landscapes, post-industrial, urban and semi-rural areas of Charleroi, a signposted trail connected to the Great European Hiking Trails runs along the city’s founding watercourses, along with castles and industrial cathedrals, ancient lanes, sneaks into an English park, crosses old railway lines reassigned for the walk, invites people into a glaucous tunnel, passes through the walls, explores the remains of a mining site, a walk in a reinvented forest, climbing heaps of balconies on the city, crosses slag-territories.

Micheline Dufert, with Francis Pourcel, have been working with the Boucle Noire/Black Loop project in Charleroi for years.

Charleroi, after decades of glory, has undergone impressive transformation. Charleroi still has a loud industrial past with contrasted landscapes and housing.

Micheline and Francis, as walkers and urban explorers, projected a long trail waypath in the surrounding of the city in 2013 to reconnect unhabitants with their landscape after 20 years of economic depression. The hike way runs through the West district and shows among neighborhoods old steel factories, blast furnace, remains of coal mines, former railways tunnel, slag heaps, and focuses on the features of the lanscape surrounding the metropolitan. Boucle Noire/Black Loop had been finally connected to international landmarked waypath Sentiers de Grande Randonnée. Boucle Noire/ Black Loop is not only an urban hike waypath but an experience as pedestrians through the suburbs of an ex industrial city with social and urbanistic specificities to explore, understand or contemplate.

Born in Bucharest in 1982, Ilinca Păun Constantinescu earned her PhD degree in architecture in 2013. She currently practices architecture at Ideogram Studio, teaches theory of architecture at “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism Bucharest, and leads cultural projects within the IDEILAGRAM Association. Together with her team from IDEILAGRAM, she edited `Shrinking Cities in Romania. Orașe românești în declin` (DOM publishers&MNAC Press 2019) and realized researches and exhibitions such as: Shrinking Cities in Romania (MNAC Bucharest, 2016), On Housing (Timco Halls Timișoara, 2018), Uranus Now (MNAC, 2019, initiated by S.Ghenciulescu and D.Hasnas). For the past years she has been actively involved in the post-industrial regeneration project of Petrila, one of the largest participatory project ever carried out in Romania, initiated by an internationally recognized local artist, taken over by a group of architects in a snowball effect.

Manon Istasse is anthropologist. She got her Ph.D degree in 2013 after investigating why and how non-professionals (or amateurs) get involved in knowing and preserving cultural heritage. She carried out researches in Morocco (Fez), France (Amiens and Lyon) and Belgium (Charleroi). She currently works at the Charleroi Cultural Center (Eden), where she gives interest – among others – to the local territory – Charleroi and its surroundings. Knowing and sharing about this territory is a Cultural Center’s core mission. It leads to a variety of activities : conferences, workshops, digital participative mapping, and walks with Micheline et Francis for discovering the territory and its landscapes.

URBAN INCURSIONS IN THE VISUAL

Production: WASP Studios

Co-Production: 4Culture Association

The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the way the project results can be used. This is entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, ARTA Magazine, Designist, Feeder, IQads, Romania Pozitiva

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