What if we looked at dance closer to poetry than to the visual arts or theater? Each movement - the opening of a world, a language with its own meanings? Each pause - an attentive wait, a space full of meaning? Each performance - a complete work, equal to itself, without the need to justify itself through the mediation of other arts? What if dancers and choreographers worked freed from the influence of music and textual narratives, armed with the confidence that their artistic language is sufficient in itself, also accessible to the public? These perspectives will [...]

Sunday, October 22, 5:00 PM as part of the exhibition ‘after SCULPTURE / SCULPTURE after’ Cazarma U, Timișoara (room 16, ground floor right) Curator: Ileana Pintilie Artists: Thomas Goodey, Ioana Marinescu, Iulia Mărăcine and Andreea David In a participatory action in May 1971, held at the Sigi Krauss gallery in London and titled The Cake-Man, Paul Neagu reassembled a human silhouette filled with waffles in front of the public, then inviting them to a ritual of consuming the “cake man”. Each participant was given a “cell” of the body to be deconstructed, ravaged, and “devoured.” The special relationship between objects, [...]

Friday, October 20, 7:00 PM, Cazarma U location, (General Eremia Grigorescu Street, Timișoara) 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫 In collaboration with 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐝 (choreographer), 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞 (architect), 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝 (documentary film director), 𝐂𝐨𝐮 𝐀𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐝 and 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝 (musicians). On Friday, October 20, the collective performance takes place as part of the exhibition ‘𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀 The resulting casts thus become not just freestanding sculptural objects, but negatives that activate memory, past memories becoming tangible in the present. The process of imprinting, of taking a cast of a surface, and of subsequently accessing that surface through its negative, produces gestures that are as sculptural as they [...]

  collective performance Hosted by: Ioana Marinescu, Iulia Mărăcine, Smaranda Găbudeanu and Andreea David   The mould is the imprint of an object on a surface, a negative of form, palpable memory.  To the ancient Greeks, memory was the imprint on the soul of a past event. You are invited to take part in a collective performance, an exercise in remembering framed by the action of mould making. Fragments of personal and collective memories will interfere with physical actions. You are welcome to bring an art work, a story, a text, a song, a small object or a photograph as [...]

GALA  On September 9, 2023, starting at 6:00 p.m., TIME SHIFT GALA will take place, a public closing event of the International Scenography Program (September 1-10, 2023) at the Roman Castrum in Ovidiu. During the Time Shift Gala, the public will be able to interact with the invited international artists and will also be able to view the installations made during the workshops of the International Program in Scenography. Besides all of this, there will also be a series of art works and installations specially invited to the Gala. The event will be presented by Pavel Bartos and will [...]

Opening event: 18:00 Friday 21 July 2023 with performance at 19:00 London-based Romanian artist Ioana Marinescu is in residence with Bucharest-based choreographers Smaranda Găbudeanu and Iulia Mărăcine. Working with archival image, video, soundscape, testimony and live performance, PAST PRESENT explores ways to recuperate cultural memories that have all but been erased.

Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY. Dreams and Guilt. Exhibiting counter-narratives invites artist-researchers to share their experiences of surfacing diasporic stories in the UK. The symposium asks:   What drives us in bringing to light repressed histories, often linked to our own place of origin? What are the commonalities and the differences between these silenced voices and the ways we attempt to access them?    What are the barriers to the public sharing of buried histories and why might a visual art framework and the mechanisms of processual installation be conducive to articulating counter-memories?     Presentations by Jumana [...]

Performance and visual installation 20 and  21 aprilie, 7.30pm /𝗦𝗔𝗖@Malmaison etaj 2, Atelierele Malmaison, Calea Plevnei 137C Concept: Ioana Marinescu Performers: Smaranda Găbudeanu, Iulia Mărăcine, Katia Pascariu, Andreea David Special guest: Aurelia Anton Film: Laurențiu Calciu Video and sound editing: Cristian Văraru Costumes: Doina Apreotesei Production: Ana Turoș _____ What is left when apparently there is nothing left?  The 19th century archaeological excavations in Pompeii revealed voids formed by the decomposition of organic matter beneath layers of calcified ash. Once filled with plaster, a series of casts took shape – 'stone bodies' trapped as in an eternal sleep. Following [...]