Sublunar Performances. Part II

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟳–𝟮𝟵 (19h–22h)
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲/𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀 (Schitu Măgureanu 21)

The Chamber Performance Festival continues the series of activities possible in a 16 sqm room (the size of Teatre/Theatre's space in Schitu Măgureanu 21, Bucharest) and activities that could never happen in a 16 sqm room. Our second event is multiple: it encompasses a series of performances developed during last year's 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 program and pursues the impact between the "sublunar element" of last year's encounters and the walls of a 16 sqm room.

(𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 is another name for the human and the earthly, relating to a profoundly alien body, and issuing an invitation to open up possibilities up to the sky.)

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺:

𝟸𝟷, 𝟸𝟸, 𝟸𝟾 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎, 𝟹–𝟽𝚙𝚖
Kira Valentina (RO) – "A self to unravel, a soul to sing to", performance, Teatre/Theatres.
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𝟸𝟿 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎, 𝟽𝚙𝚖
Sublunar performances, Teatre/Theatres:
Alina Grau – After "Three Sisters"; Theatres
Giles Elridge – A Situation of Pictures, Theatres
Cosmina Moroșan & Vlad Anticorp Solar – Flimsy Weapons

Dedicated to shaping sensorial communities and encounters–to reconfigure inner and outer landscapes–through a program of residencies for performance research and presentation at the intersection with other arts and invited artists, the 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 program organized last year by Teatre/Theatres and produced in collaboration with the artist Irina Botea was meant to reopen a discussion about landscape (as a way to represent the invisible), transformed into a performative method of understanding and reimagining the relationship between interiority and the environment (be it natural/cultural, separate/interdependent). The project was a plea for performance which, like landscapes, can be seen as an approach or a method to bring the body back into the discussion (and back to attention).

This year, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 became The Institution of Performance, turning a critical eye on the absence of institutional involvement of this kind, doubled by a new plea in for the power of performance to "institute" the necessary interactive structures by understanding conditioning and its transformations, through speculative frameworks and alliances with artists and institutions that allow themselves to be permeated.

A program by Adriana Gheorghe, produced by Teatre/Theatres and PETEC, co-financed by AFCN.The project does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the project's content or any use to which the project outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

Graphics: Sebastian Danciu
Photo: Petre Fall at the Experimental Station for Art and Life
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