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Eszter Salamon: “MONUMENT 0.8: Manifestations” at Kaaitheater premiere on 17th and 18th January 2020
On Friday, 17.01.2020 and Saturday, 18.01.2020, we are delighted to announce the premiere of “MONUMENT 0.8: Manifestations” at Kaaitheater in the context of Europalia Romania. With a collage of feminist voices, artistic gestures, historical avant-garde, and traditional songs performed by Salka Ardal Rosengren, Madalina Dan, Flavia Giurgiu, Judith State and Ayșe Orhon, Eszter Salamon focuses on Romanian histories, in a special setting created by artist Marilena Preda Sanc that covers the entire stage.
MONUMENT 0.8: Manifestations is a performative, visual and sound collage that animates an emancipatory space by interweaving traces of the Romanian history of feminism, artistic gestures and female perspectives in the history of painting and traditional music. This choral performance destabilizes not only dominant views on history, but also borders that were built to separate artistic expressions, cultures, nations and identities. As the piece carves out a trans-historical and trans-disciplinary space of memory, a new ecology of relationality appears through a hybrid fabric of political and choreographic movements, creating a new poetic matrix.
Performance art has always sought to unite art and life. How and why is it important to address the marginalized history of feminism in the Romanian and Eastern European context – on the periphery of our collective historical consciousness?
Eszter Salamon is a Hungarian choreographer, artist, and performer who lives and works in Berlin, Paris, and Brussels. Salamon uses choreography to build bridges between media such as image, sound, music, text, voice, and bodily movements. Her creations are often based on particular issues such as hidden power structures sustaining the hierarchical systems of artistic and educational economies of productions. Another field of investigation in Salamon’s work is the relationship between voice, language and movement. Her work has been presented at museums including Centre Pompidou (FR) and MoMA (USA), and events like Holland Festival.
Credits:
concept, choreography & artistic direction Eszter Salamon | developed with and performed by Salka Ardal Rosengren, Madalina Dan, Flavia Giurgiu, Ayșe Orhon, Judith State | artistic assistant Liza Baliasnaja, Christine de Smedt | stage design Marilena Preda Sanc | digital processing Mateias Bogdan | lights Sylvie Garot | technical direction Sylvie Garot, Rima Ben Brahim | costume design Cristina Barbu | vocal coach Elena Gheorghe | production Studio E.S. / Elodie Perrin, WASP Studios | commissioned by EUROPALIA ROMANIA (Brussels), Andreea Capitanescu (curator) | co-produced by Kaaitheater, EUROPALIA ROMANIA, Romanian Cultural Institute | supported by 4Culture Association, Life Long Burning/Creative Europe Programme of The European Union | cultural project co-financed by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund | special thanks to Lia Perjovschi for her drawing and research «Romanian feminism», Olivia Nitis, Oana Baluta, Valentina Iancu, Maria Balabas, The Balassi Institut Bucharest | Studio E.S. is supported by the Drac Île-de-France.
Program
17.01.2020 I 20:30
KAAITHEATER, Square Sainctelette 20 – 1000 Brussel
18.01.2020 I 20:30
KAAITHEATER, Square Sainctelette 20 – 1000 Brussel
Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, ARTA Magazine, Designist, Feeder, IQads, Romania Pozitiva
Photo credit: Lia Perjovschi
TRACES, the latest production of the famous Flemish contemporary dance company, Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus, presented for the first time at the Bucharest National Theater on January 9, 2020
Bucharest, January 06, 2020
The Romanian Cultural Institute and the 4Culture Association, in partnership with the National Theater I.L. Caragiale Bucharest invites you to start the new year with TRACES, presented for the first time in Bucharest, during the EUROPALIA Romania festival and at the opening of the international tour of Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus, with a unique performance at the National Theater “I.L. Caragiale ”Bucharest, on January 9, 2020.
TRACES, inspired by Romania and considered by the daily DeMorgen one of the best contemporary dance performances of the year 2019, had the world premiere in December 2019 in the frame of the Europalia Romania Festival organized in Belgium, where over ten days, gathered an audience of more than 5000 spectators.
TRACES is a rediscovery of a vulnerable vitality, in a world full of technological and ecological threats. Wim Vandekeybus looks back at the insights from the beginning of his choreographic pursuits: the drama of impulses and instincts; at the play of energies and intensities. In the overwhelming nature of Romania, with the last virgin forests of Europe, Vandekeybus seeks traces older than man and his memory. TRACES is the evocation of an “inner story”, the story that takes place before or beyond the language and can only be told through the impulses of dance and music. TRACES is a search for the traces of nature that the body has forgotten or repressed.
Ultima Vez company was founded in 1986 by the choreographer, stage director and filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus. Since its establishment, Ultima Vez has developed its activities as an international contemporary dance company based in Brussels and Flanders.
Wim Vandekeybusest was born in Herenthout on June 30, 1963. After high school, Wim Vandekeybus went to Louvain to study psychology. In 1985, he got an audition with the famous choreographer Jan Fabre who gave him a role in “The Power of Theatrical Madness”. A year later, Vandekeybus founded Ultima Vez. His first show, “What the Body Doesn’t Remember,” became an international hit. In all its different productions, Ultima Vez remains true to its own language of movement. Tension, conflict, the body facing the mind, risks and impulses. Each time, passion, intuition and instinct will take a different form in his performances.
Media partners: TVR, Radio Romania, Radio Romania Cultural, RFI, Modernism, Zeppelin, ARTA Magazine, Designer, Feeder, IQads, Positive Romania, Elle, Leviathan
Tickets on Mystage.ro.
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ABYSS, by Matei Bejenaru, film-documentary premiere on 15th November 2019 at WASP Working Art Space and Production
4Culture Association and WASP Studios announce the premiere of ABYSS, the latest film-documentary by Matei Bejenaru, on 15th of November 2019, from 19:30, at WASP Working Art Space and Production, in Bucharest. The projection will be followed by a poetry moment of Stefan Augustin Doinas creations interpreted by the actors Octavian Jighirgiu and Andreea Darie and a dialogue between Matei Bejenaru and special guests, Adina Cezar, Liana Tugearu, Ioan Tugearu and Alina Ledeanu.
The visual poem Abyss explores the enigmatic and charismatic personality of Irinel Liciu, first soloist of the Romanian Opera ballet in Bucharest in the 1950s-’60s. Shot on film and using materials from the National Film Archive, Agerpress News Agency, and 21st Century Magazine archive, Abyss is an essay on the condition of the artist and the relationship with his/her art and life.
Matei Bejenaru (b. 1963) is a visual artist and professor of photography and video art at “George Enescu” National University of Arts Iasi. He is the founder and artistic director of Peripheric Biennial for Contemporary Art in Iasi (between 1997 and 2008). In his latest projects, through photographs, video and public performances, he examines the politics of representation in documentary photography and film and methods of generation of hybrid art projects at the confluence between visual arts, poetry, experimental music and scientific research.
ABYSS documentary is part of the Creative Crossroads – Art and Humanity, a cultural project, co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and Life Long Burning – Towards A Sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe, with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
The documentary will be presented at BOZAR, in Brussels, between December 3rd, 2019 and January 12, 2020, in the frame of Europalia Arts Festival Romania, with the support of Romanian Cultural Institute.
ABYSS
Author: Matei Bejenaru
Interviews with: Adina Cezar, Liana Tugearu, Ioan Tugearu
Music: Jean-Paul Dessy
Digital image and sound editing: Mihai-Marian Mina
Colorist: Mihai-Marian Mina
Narrator: Octavian Jighirgiu
Sound: Vlad Onescu
Kodak Vision3 film developed and scanned at Cinelabs Bucharest, Romania
With support of: The Romanian National Opera, Iași and The National Opera Bucharest, Romanian Film Center, The National Film Archive.
Production: 4Culture Association and WASP Studios
Cultural project co-financed by: The Administration of the National Cultural Fund and Life Long Burning – Towards A Sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe, with the support of Creative Europe Programme of The European Union.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is neither responsible of the project content or of the way in which the project results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grant beneficiary.
Media Partners: Radio România Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Designist, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă
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PROGRAM
15 NOV 2019
WASP Working Art Space and Production
19:30 – 20:00 ABYSS, by Matei Bejenaru
20:00 – 20:10 poetry moment with actors Octavian Jighirgiu and Andreea Darie (Stefan Augustin Doinas poems)
20:10 – 21:00 Dialogue with Matei Bejenaru, Andreea Capitanescu (curator and producer) and special guests Adina Cezar (choreographer), Liana Tugearu (dance critic), Ioan Tugearu (choreographer), Alina Ledeanu (president of 21st Century Cultural Foundation)
03 DEC 2019 – 12 JAN 2020
BOZAR, Projection Room
Europalia Arts Festival Romania, with the support of Romanian Cultural Institut
Photo credit: Abyss movie still, Matei Bejenaru
Still on view at WASP Working Art Space and Production the exhibitions
Iosif Király // HEROES WERE PEOPLE JUST LIKE US. From selfie to monument
Life Long Burning – Multimedia installations by Alice Feraru, Mircea Hristescu and Corina Rafael
www.waspmagazine.com
www.4culture.ro
Manuel Pelmus: A Luxury That We Can Not Afford (Wisdom of the Earth) at Craiova Art Museum and Bucharest National Geology Museum
4Culture Association and WASP Studios announce the presentation of the newest creation of Manuel Pelmus, one of the most influential artists of the “new performance”, in the frame of eXplore festival #14, at Craiova Art Museum on October, 29 and at the National Geology Museum, Bucharest on 1st and 2nd November, 2019. A Luxury That We Can’t Afford (Wisdom of the Earth)is an intangible, live version of Brancusi sculpture Wisdom of the Earth, an ongoing action proposing another kind of relation to history, collective memory and to the exhibition space.
The project, supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute and co-financed by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund, had the premiere between 8 and 12 October 2019, at BOZAR, in Brussels, for Brancusi: Sublimation of Form exhibition, in the frame of Europalia Arts Festival Romania.
A Luxury That We Can Not Afford (Wisdom of the Earth) starts from a less-known sculpture of Constantin Brancusi, Sculpture For the Blind (1920), along with an “immaterial” version of Wisdom of the Earth (1907). The live work aims to enter into dialogue with the history and legacy of the two Brancusi sculptures through speech, movement, strategies of enactment and politics of embodiment, proposing a less canonical narrative of art history, interrogating modernist constructs, as well as imagining a notion of history in motion, open to change and transformation.
The “immaterial” version of the Wisdom of the Earth sculpture, built from text, will come to life for several hours, updating and entering into dialogue with the gesture of Constantin Brancusi from 1920. The text is a collage consisting of comments made over time, from 1910 to the present, by the public and critics, often contradictory about the sculpture. Wisdom of the Earth responds and speaks “back”. Using Sculpture for the Blind dramaturgy, even if we don’t see it, we will have to listen to what it has to say and how it wants to rewrite history.
A sculpture you don’t see, but you listen to.
A sculpture you don’t see, but you listen to.
Manuel Pelmuș (b. 1974, Bucharest) lives and works in Oslo and Bucharest. He is one of the most influential artists of the “new performance”, being interested in the last decade to reimagine the role of performance in the context of visual arts. In recent years, his projects have been presented at Para Site, Hong Kong (2017 – 2018), Tate Modern, London and Tate Liverpool (2016); Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2016); Off-Biennale Budapest (2015 and 2017); Kyiv Biennale (2015); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2014); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2014); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2014); Para Site, Hong Kong (2014); The Venice Biennale (2013), among others. In 2012, he was awarded the Berlin Art Prize for performance arts and the prize for excellence from the National Dance Center of Bucharest in 2014. Starting October 2019, Manuel Pelmus is a “research felow” at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO).
Maria F. Scaroni is a freelance dance artist living in Berlin since 2004. She interprets choreographic works, creates dances and hosts dance workshops. She created and performed works with Jess Curtis, Jeremy Wade, Frank Willens, Tino Sehgal and Vania Rovisco/AADK, among others. Since 2011 Maria collaborates with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (Until Our Hearts Stop, Sketches/Notebook, Built To Last), sharing with Meg Stuart and part of the Berlin dance community, the commitment to improvisation as a performance event (City Lights, Auf den Tisch!, Politics of Ecstasy). Her choreographic works focus on the process of collaboration, play with durational experiences and are featured by a crossbreeding between performance, choreography and installation. Maria teaches in Berlin’s Universities HZT and Bard College and is involved in independent training programmes (in Berlin, P.O.R.C.H. and ROAR). Since 2017 she is resident choreographer and member of the party collective Lecken Berlin.
Cristina Toma is a freelance actress born and trained in Romania. She believes in the creative and inspiring side of the actor, in openly nurturing her vulnerability and feeding her curiosity, thoughts which drove her to explorations in several domains. Therefore, she collaborated in theatre, movie, dance, performance and translation, for more than 25 years, having projects in Romanian, English, French and Hungarian, which were produced and performed in several European cities and Canada.
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A Luxury That We Can Not Afford (Wisdom of the Earth)
Author: Manuel Pelmuș
With: Cristina Toma, Maria F. Scaroni
Production: WASP Studios
Cultural project co-financed by: Romanian Cultural Institute, The Administration of the National Cultural Fund
Project commissioned by Europalia Arts Festival, curator Andreea Căpitănescu, for Brancusi: Sublimation of Form exhibition, at BOZAR, Brussels
Partners: National Geology Museum – Bucharest and Craiova Art Museum
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PROGRAM
29 OCT 2019
Craiova Art Museum, Brancusi Hall
12:00 – 14:00 workshop with Manuel Pelmuș, and high-school students from Craiova Art High-School
15:00 – 17:00 ongoing action with Cristina Toma
01,02 NOV 2019
National Geology Museum, Bucharest
13:00 – 15:00 ongoing action with Cristina Toma and Maria F. Scaroni
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eXplore festival #14
Producers: 4Culture Association and WASP Studios
Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund AFCN
The project does not necessarily represent the position of AFCN.
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.
Partners: Balassi Institute – The Hungarian Institute in Bucharest, Brancovenesti Palaces Cultural Center, Geological Institute of Romania – National Museum of Geology, Craiova Art Museum
Media Partners: Radio România Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Designist, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă
In the picture: Maria F. Scaroni // Photo credit: Frank Sperling
Sergiu Matis – Extinction Room (Hopeless.) presented at BOZAR, part of Europalia Arts Festival 2019
Extinction Room (Hopeless.) by Sergiu Matis, commissioned by Europalia Arts Festival Romania, will be presented within the exhibition Brancusi – Sublimation of Form at BOZAR, between October 17th and 19th, 2019.
Extinction Room (Hopeless.) is a performative multi-channel sound installation consisting of recordings of extinct and endangered bird species. It explores the idea of nature in western society and its representation in artistic and cultural products, at a time when climate change specialists have given us permission to panic.
The audience will be guided through a soundscape developed in collaboration with composer AGF (aka Antye Greie). The performers will tell the stories of these species as we listen to their calls, cries and songs from the speakers that hang in the space like cages. The birds’ extinction narratives will interweave with their myths. Folk songs and dances will be brought to life. The emotional load – the sorrow – will be augmented by the performer, who will skillfully guide the visitors through these traumatic experiences of loss.
The first research phases of Extinction Room (Hopeless.) were shown in June 2019 at Art Radionica Lazareti in Dubrovnik and in August 2019 at Radialsystem in Berlin. The performance premiered in Bucharest, on 20 and 21st September in the frame of eXplore festival #14. Further presentations took place on September 24 at The International Theater Festival in Piatra Neamt and at Craiova Art Museum on September 27, 2019.
Sergiu Matis is a choreographer born in 1981 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and now living and working in Berlin, Germany. His movement practice “visible thinking body”, a method of thinking the body in motion, forms the base of his performances. Contaminated with ballet techniques at an early age in freshly post-communist Romania, Sergiu now seeks a new virtuosity, learning from machines, scrambling fragments of history, skipping and swiping through archives – both personal or belonging to Western dance history. He writes his own performative texts, choreographing meaning and ideas, flirting with poetry and theory, with a pinch of visceral filth and groovy noises. In Matis’ performance, voices dance as much as bodies do.
Concept and choreography: Sergiu Matis
With: Manon Parent, Sergiu Matis, Martin Hansen
Sound installation and composition: AGF aka Antye Greie
Text: Sergiu Matiș, Mila Pavicevic
Species research: Philip Ingman
Dramaturgy: Mila Pavicevic
Sound: Martin Lutz
Animal recordings from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Xeno-canto Foundation.
Production management: 4Culture Association
Co-financed by The Administration of National Cultural Fund - AFCN, Romanian Cultural Institute, Europalia Arts Festival Brussels.
A Sergiu Matis production, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund Berlin, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
Co-produced by: 4Culture Association, WASP Studios, ICI-CCN de Montpellier – Occitanie as part of Life Long Burning (LLB) – Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe, supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Centre of Drama Art Zagreb and Art workshop Lazareti Dubrovnik
Text: Sergiu Matiș, Mila Pavicevic
Species research: Philip Ingman
Dramaturgy: Mila Pavicevic
Sound: Martin Lutz
Animal recordings from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Xeno-canto Foundation.
Production management: 4Culture Association
Co-financed by The Administration of National Cultural Fund - AFCN, Romanian Cultural Institute, Europalia Arts Festival Brussels.
A Sergiu Matis production, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund Berlin, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
Co-produced by: 4Culture Association, WASP Studios, ICI-CCN de Montpellier – Occitanie as part of Life Long Burning (LLB) – Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe, supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Centre of Drama Art Zagreb and Art workshop Lazareti Dubrovnik
Commissioned for Europalia Arts Festival Romania 2019, Performing Arts curator Andreea Capitanescu.
PROGRAM
BOZAR, Rue Ravenstein 23 – 1000 Brussels
OCT 17 – 19, 2019
BOZAR, Rue Ravenstein 23 – 1000 Brussels
OCT 17 – 19, 2019
DEC 12 – 14, 2019
Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Modernism Punct Ro, Zeppelin, ARTA Magazine, Designist, Feeder, IQads, Romania Pozitiva.
Photo credit: Birdcollage1 © Philip Ingman
Eszter Salamon: Monument 0.8 Manifestations (work in progress)
Explore Festival #14 – Bucharest International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival
13/10/2019 19h30 @WASP Working Art Space and Production
Work in progress / contemporary dance
After talk Eszter Salamon, Marilena Preda-Sânc & guests
MONUMENT 0.8: Manifestations, by Eszter Salamon, in collaboration with Marilena Preda Sânc // Contemporary Dance
Aftertalk: Eszter Salamon, Marilena Preda-Sânc & guests
Manifestations is a performative, visual and sound collage that animates an emancipatory space by interweaving traces of the Romanian history of feminism, artistic gestures and female perspectives in the history of painting and traditional music. This choral performance destabilizes not only dominant views on history, but also borders that were built to separate artistic expressions, cultures, nations and identities. As the piece carves out a trans-historical and trans-disciplinary space of memory, a new ecology of relationality appears through a hybrid fabric of political and choreographic movements, creating a new poetic matrix.
Performance art has always sought to unite art and life. How and why is it important to address the marginalized history of feminism in the Romanian and Eastern European context – on the periphery of our collective historical consciousness?
MONUMENT 0.8: Manifestations
Concept and artistic direction: Eszter Salamon
Artistic collaboration: Marilena Preda Sanc
Developed with and performed by: Salka Ardal Rosengren, Madalina Dan, Flavia Giurgiu, Corina Mitrovici, Judith State, Ágnes Enyedi
Lights: Sylvie Garot
Technical direction: Rima Ben Brahim
Project assistant: Liza Baliasnaja
Vocal coach: Elena Gheorghe
Research: Valentina Iancu
Production: Studio E.S. / Elodie Perrin, WASP Studios
Commissioned by: Europalia Romania (Brussels), Andreea Capitanescu (curator)
Co-produced by: Europalia Romania (Brussels), Romanian Cultural Institute, Kaaitheater, 4Culture Association
Supported by: Life Long Burning / Creative Europe Programme of The European Union.
Partner: Balassi Institute Bucharest
Special thanks to Lia Perjovschi for her drawing and research «Romanian feminism», Olivia Nitis, Oana Baluta, Maria Balabas
Studio E.S. is supported by the DRAC Ile de France
Eszter Salamon is an artist and performer who lives and works between Paris, Berlin and Brussels. Since 2001, she has been creating solo and group works that have been presented in performing arts venues and festivals throughout the world including Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou Metz, Festival dʼAutomne, Avignon Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Holland Festival, The Kitchen New York, HAU Berlin, Berlin Documentary Forum, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater Brussels, Tanzquartier Wien, Kampnagel Hamburg, steirischer herbst, Dance Triennale Tokyo, Manchester International Festival, Nanterre-Amandiers, FTA Montreal.
She is frequently invited to present her work in museums, including MoMa, Witte de With, Fondation Cartier, Serralves, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Museo Reina Sofia. Her exhibition Eszter Salamon 1949 was presented in 2015 at Jeu de Paume as part of ›Satellite‹ curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez.
Eszter Salamonʼs work revolves around choreography employed as a means of navigating between different media such as sound, text, voice, image, bodily movements and actions. In 2014, she started a series of works exploring both the notion of monument and the practice of speculating on history making.
Eszter Salamon is artist-in-residence at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers. She is the laureate of the Evens Art Prize 2019.
Marilena Preda Sanc is an interdisciplinary artist, Professor at National University of Arts in Bucharest. From 1980 her work has been presented internationally at museums, festivals, conferences, symposiums, broadcast venues and galleries.
Integrating the traditional forms of art and the new media arts, her art works visualize and investigate the body / mind / soul / behavior in relation to nature and social / political and representational space. Her art work explores the feminism problematic as gender / ageism and woman as leader in an eco-feminism key.
She exhibited her art work in many national and international exhibitions, festivals and took part in residencies (Kulturkontakt Vienna, Franklin Furnace, N.Y.). Her videos, paintings, drawings, installations, interventions on photography are in museums or private collections such as: The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest MNAC; Arhitekturni Muzej Ljubljana; Kunsthalle, Nürnberg; Albertina Art Collections, Vienna.
Photo Credit: Lia Perjovschi
eXplore festival #14
Producers: 4Culture Association and WASP Studios
Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund – AFCN
The project does not necessarily represent the position of AFCN.
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.
Partners: Balassi Institute – The Hungarian Institute in Bucharest, Brancovenesti Palaces Cultural Center, Geological Institute of Romania – National Museum of Geology, Craiova Art Museum
Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, ARTA Magazine, Designist, Feeder, IQads, Romania Pozitiva
Photo credit: Lia Perjovschi
Life Long Burning: Alice Feraru, Corina Rafael & Mircea Hristescu
Explore Festival #14 – Bucharest International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival
12.10.2019 // WASP Working Art Space and Production
Mircea Hristescu, Alice Feraru & Corina Rafael
Multimedia installations
Inside out
The series of images represent a large space photographed in different time periods (2017-2019) from opposite viewpoints. The affective approach to a series of images and the mystification of the observing experience encouraged a limitation in the polysemy of the photographs and also the crystallization of a personal narrative that hangs on representations from the field of collective memory (mythology), a narrative that revolves around the motif of twins (double). Inside out emphasizes how nonlinearity of events enhances the need to fix meanings around the image, this process of ordering information manifesting as a defensive mechanism against the threat of everyday chaos. In this case, the image is the window that opens from the outside to the inside. The affective distancing from the images regenerates the perception, bringing a new understanding on photography as a research tool of the knowledge systems.
Alice Feraru (b. 1995) lives in Bucharest where she works as a visual artist using several media: photography, video, drawing, multimedia installation. She started to work predominantly with photography and dynamic image in 2014, once with the admission at the National University of Arts from Bucharest in Photo-Video department, and in 2019 she graduated a master’s programme within the same department. In her artistic practice she combines personal mythologies with interest in topics such as time or memory, focusing on visual language as a mirror of her own affective reality.
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GLITCH No. ∞
Video – object – digital print installation
The title itself refers to an object that is suspended from the coherence of reality. The concept of short circuit becomes a consequence of the failure to identify with the empirical reading of concrete time and space.
An unidentifiable space, at a reasonable scan, becomes a space ready to protect (rescue) personal memory, different sensory impulses that govern our affective existence, allowing it to constantly regenerate.
Mircea Hristescu (n. 1995) lives and works in Bucharest as a visual artist. In 2014, he graduated from Nicolae Tonitza Arts High School, and in 2019 from the National University of Arts, the Department of Photography and Dynamic Image. He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions of photography, as well as experimental film, such as: 2019 – DEZARHIVARI, ApArte Gallery in Iasi, a workshop that ended with a collective exhibition, curator Matei Bejenaru; 2018 – The exhibition of the workshop of experimental film Camera Prezenta, coordinated by Lavinia German, as part of the FILM project, curator Matei Bejenaru, at WASP – Working Art Space and Production, Bucharest; Confluențe / Kereszteződések, exhibition: Targu Mures Palace of Culture, K’arte, Casa Bernady, Finish, Balassi Intézet – Bukaresti Magyar Intézet / The Hungarian Institute of Bucharest; Reactor Spălător #2 screening, BITE-SIZED FILM NIGHT, Cluj-Napoca; 2017 – SALT, Bachelor and Master exhibition, FVPCI, Bucharest, BRD Gallery, Scena9.
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The Dirac Equation
Multimedia installation
“If two systems interact with each other for a certain period of time and then are separated, can no longer be described as two separate systems, but somehow, they become a single system. In other words, what happens to one of them continues to influence each other, even if distant miles or light years”.
Starting from Paul Dirac’s equation, the proposed installation addresses the increasingly acute problem of plastic waste pollution, which is a negative impact on both the natural environment and the human life.
The installation becomes a piece of conceptual art with surrealistic valences, which aims to draw the public’s attention to the awareness of the problem of environmental pollution with plastic materials, as well as on the problem of selective collection and recycling of plastic waste.
In her personal body of works, Corina Rafael experiments with different media, using varied knowledge, both empirical and scientific, from the personal “background”, in order to reach final results that contribute to the cultural and spiritual guidance of the public. Major themes that she resorts to and which become recurrent in the concepts of her work works are: orthodoxy, medicine, mathematics, love, psychology (psychoanalysis), tailoring, recycling, architecture. The topics she approaches are of the most varied, with strong personal, experiential, philosophical and intrinsic motivation: the circle, the time, the life and the death, the branches-the-trunk-roots, the problem of “perfection”, the problem of “suicide”, salvation and monasticism, the plastic, the cemetery, the cross, the vertical stripe line, the rose, the wood, the metal, the brick, the light sources, the string, etc. The types of rendering of the final images, especially in painting, experimental short film and photography, are: abstract, abstract- expressionist, strongly conceptual minimalist. Currently she works with painting, photography, film, poetry and installation. Particularly characterized by a pictorial and lyrical aesthetic, her art has the purpose of being a bandage and to awaken and guide the viewer towards cultural depth, truth and spirituality.
Projects developed within Life Long Burning – Towards A Sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe, which sustains the contemporary dance and performance scene in Europe. The multiannual programme is coordinated and implemented by a network of 11 European organizations, associations, companies and production houses: 4Culture (RO), danceWEB (AT), ICI-Center Chorégraphique National De Montpellier (FR), Brain Store Project (BG), NDA Slovenia (SI), Stuk (BE), Tala Dance Center (HR), Uferstudios (DE), Veem House for Performance (NL), Workshop Foundation (HU) and MDT Stockholm (SE).
Life Long Burning – Towards A Sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance is a multi-annual project co-financed by The European Union – Creative Europe Programme and by by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
eXplore festival #14
Producers: 4Culture Association and WASP Studios
Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund – AFCN
The project does not necessarily represent the position of AFCN.
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.
Partners: Balassi Institute – The Hungarian Institute in Bucharest, Brancovenesti Palaces Cultural Center, Geological Institute of Romania – National Museum of Geology, Craiova Art Museum
Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, ARTA Magazine, Designist, Feeder, IQads, Romania Pozitiva
