Alumna of Advanced Performance Art and Scenography Studies (Belgium, 2010) and of TU Cluj-Napoca (Romania, 1995)
In my artistic work - whether it is photography, writing or installations, choreography / performance art, I am interested in the blur area in which sound becomes word, gesture becomes dance, shades and shapes become images. In other words, in the birthing and vanishing of meaning, and how meaning relates to sense as direction and as intention, and - as a next layer - when any of these become art. I create in different media which I then juxtapose. Both stages are intuitive, while a lot of introspection and reflection precedes the making, and rational choices are made in post-production. As an artist, I walk on a thin path that meanders in and out of institutional art spaces, with a preference for pursuing long-term, solitary projects that once in a while bring me in established contexts. On my way, I might break a tiny branch from a tree and graft it into another.
PUBLICATIONS and INTERVIEWS
wandering, writing, wondering > read more Language as Home, contribution to Practice Sharing, language-based artistic research, The Reseach Catalogue
Dissemination as Artistic Practice, presentation for the colloquium ‘Evaluating Research in the Arts’ at
VUB in Brussels
As sweet as it can get, out and about in
Molenbeek, essay, contribution to group catalogue, La Bellone, Brussels
a
dream. a story., very short essay, contribuition to Decentre, Concerning artist-run culture, YYZBOOKS, Toronto
Versuri in zbor, lacrimi pulbere de
soare, poetry, Editura NICO, Targu Mures
QuoVadis, guest of Radio Targu-Mures, interview about my Asian Journeys
TEACHING and MENTORING
Wandering and wondering ~ artistic research questions and approaches, guest lectures for MA students (HKU, Kala Bhavana)
Mentoring a master student on artistic research and dissemination (website design) via Toneelacademie Maastricht
Guest-lecture Eerlijkheid als persoonijke verhouding tot Rechtvaardigheid, LUCA School of Arts in Genk Teaching Daoyin (a Taoist body practice developed by Dr. Dan Vercammen) to small groups in Cluj-Napoca
Mentoring artists on how to think and make their websites ~ FuseeDoree.com
and Diego-Gil.com ~ in Amsterdam
Dissemination as Artistic Practice,
leading a one-week workshop for PhD students at ENS des beaux-arts de
Lyon
GRANTS
wandering writing wondering, financial support offered by Het Cultuurfonds Noord-Holland
Mira and the Sage, grant offered
by la DRAC Auvergne (French Ministry of Culture)
OnlineWhiteCube, advocating open source editors and minimalist design, grant
offered by ARDTA, Clermont-Ferrand
Not Here Not There, dance &
video, hosted by Romanian Cultural Institute Paris (grant) and CND Pantin, Paris
ART DIRECTION / artist run a-i-r as artistic praxis
morisena
was an artist-in-residence centre that I've set up and directed as a
garden-centred context for exploring creativity and collaboration in a
spirit of Permaculture and local traditions. Renovating the location, initiating and producing two
collaborative art projects: Hitchhiking to Transylvania and TransyMusic
musafir foundation - a foundation set up symbolically, as a manifesto for welcoming travelers as guests
EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS, PERFORMANCES
River and Sky, Photographs of the valley of Ganges in India, De Donkere Kamer #18, Genk
I
Was Here Too / On My Way, residency, interventions, journaling, Centre
Z33, Hasselt
Idiosyncratically here,
The Stranger as a Lens, performance, Theatre Festival 2010, Antwerp
France, Fasting, Feasting, residency, performance, writing, PAF in
St. Erne
Fata Morgana, India, installation-performance, Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
24
Hours at Home in Europe, group exhibition, photography, Trans
Europe Halles
Rite. Rhythm. India.,
photography and book launch, Teatru74, Targu Mures
In suflet, India (Within
Soul, India), photography, Galeria Foto AzoMures, Targu Mures
People of India,
photography, MacBike, Amsterdam
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