eXplore festival 2020
The presentation is part of ZOOM IN/OUT. IMMATERIAL PERFORMANCE, cultural project developed by 4Culture Association and co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
M/OTHERS explores the mother-daughter relationship. Through modalities of action, feeling and perception, it opens an inter-subjective time, giving birth to a singular space with traces and states of conjoining.
Being together (in between disciplines) / Discussions with Ilinca Păun Constantinescu & Micheline Dufert, moderator Andreea Capitanescu
Untitled (2020) – Collective Exhibition – blurs the borders between a sound installation and a live performance. It happens simultaneously in different places through live sound and movement and imagines togetherness using time and space as its main dramaturgical material during times when being together and sharing the same physical space is put to a radical test.
Roel Heremans is a conceptual artist working with sound & technology.
In most of his works he composes fragments of audio that trigger the imagination of visitors in order to create immersive group experiences.
A discussion about an artistic practice in between disciplines. About artistic performative strategies as a response to the current moment and imagining other forms in which we can act and be together.
The events will take place in the announced spaces and will be broadcasted online, on eXplore Festival Facebook page.
The events will take place in the announced spaces and will be broadcasted online, on eXplore Festival Facebook page.
Judith State, nominated by 4Culture, as a Creative Crossroads artist, within the European network Life Long Burning – Towards A Sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe, invites the audience to take part to a first journey on the artistic process that involves her last new choreographic piece, that will be later presented in 2021.
Duet C – Eliade is an interactive experience for 2 to 8 visitors that takes around 12’30”.
This work came to existence during a residency at WASP, Bucharest by researching the theories and philosophy of Mircea Eliade.
The visual poem Abyss has as a starting point the enigmatic personality of the artist Irinel Luciu, prima ballerina at the Romanian Opera in Bucharest in the 50’s-60’s. The film approaches general humanist themes, such as love and devotion, as well as aspects of the condition of the artist who makes fundamental decisions in his life.
eXplore festival 2019
Author: Manuel PelmușWith: Cristina Toma, Maria F. ScaroniProduction: WASP StudiosCultural project co-financed by: Romanian Cultural Institute, The Administration of the National Cultural Fund, RomaniaProject commissioned by Europalia Arts Festival, curator Andreea Căpitănescu, for Brancusi: Sublimation of Form exhibition, at BOZAR, BrusselsPartners: National Geology Museum – Bucharest and Craiova Art Museum A Luxury That We Can’t Afford (Wisdom of the Earth)…
Matei Bejenaru – ABYSS Documentary premiere Free entrance The visual poem Abyss has as a starting point the enigmatic personality of the artist Irinel Luciu, prima ballerina at the Romanian Opera in Bucharest in the 50’s-60’s. The film approaches general humanist themes, such as love and devotion, as well as aspects of the condition of the artist who makes fundamental…
MONUMENT 0.8: Manifestations, by Eszter Salamon, in collaboration with Marilena Preda Sânc // Contemporary DanceAftertalk: 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…
12.10.2019 // WASP Working Art Space and ProductionMircea Hristescu, Alice Feraru & Corina RafaelMultimedia 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…
12.10.2019 // Brancovenesti Palaces Cultural Center, Mogosoaia11:00 – 14:00Lectures and dialogue with the audience ROMANIAN ECO PUBLIC ARTMarilena Preda Sânc Thinking with / for nature means rethinking the human-nature relationship in the contemporary society. The pollution of the environment and the deterioration of the quality of life, due to exaggerated consumerism and aggressive economic / military geopolitics, have led many…
11.10.2019 // WASP Working Art Space and Production, Bucharest19:30 – 20:30Veda Popovici: Corp în adversitate / Body in AdversityPerformance lecture // Intrarea liberă / Free entrance Body in Adversity investigates the production conditions and effects of a performance series which took place within some feminist protests from 2011 until today, like Harmless Nature (SlutWalk 2011), On March 8 We Fight (March…
05.10.2019 // WASP Working Art Space and Production, Bucharest 19:30 – 21:00 Iosif Kiraly: Heroes Were People Just Like Us Visible X invisible Foto & video – tur ghidat al expozițiilor / Photo & video – exhibitions guided tour Intrarea liberă / Free entrance HEROES WERE PEOPLE JUST LIKE US. From selfie to monument The exhibition investigates, through reconstructions and photographic…
04.10.2019 // WASP Working Art Space and Production, Bucuresti 19:30 – 21:30 Ciprian Ciuclea: Remote Proximity Instalație video / Video Installation Intrarea liberă / Free entrance On February 21st, 2019, the Hayabusa 2 Japanese probe successfully reached the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, approximately 290 million kilometers from Earth. The probe will bring samples of rock to Terra for detailed analysis.…
28.09.2019 // WASP Working Art Space and Production, București19:30 – 21:30Mugur Grosu: Dead poets high society / Cerul poeților dispăruțiArt installation, performance, poemusicBilete/Tickets: www.mystage.ro,https://eventbook.ro/other/bilete-explore-dance-festival-14-cerul-poetilor-disparuti eXplore festival #14 – Bucharest International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival ▪️ 28.09.2019 // WASP Working Art Space and Production, Bucharest19:30 – 21:30Mugur Grosu: Dead poets high societyArt installation, performance, poemusic Dead poets high society represents a kinetic…
27.09.2019 // WASP Working Art Space and Production // 19:30 – 20:30DD Dorvillier: No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” (2005)*Performance / Dans contemporanBilete: https://eventbook.ro/index.php/music/bilete-explore-dance-festival-14-no-changehttps://www.mystage.ro/spectacole/no-change-or-freedom-is-a-psycho-kinetic-skill-2005-1979/ Concept: DD DorvillierPerformers: DD Dorvillier, Elizabeth Ward, Nicolas BarrotLight Design: Thomas DunnSound Design: Seth CluettCostumes: Kelly Horrigan, Jesica Beebe, DD DorvillierTechnical Director: Nicolas BarrotProduction: Laura Aknin – human future dance corpsParts of No Change or “freedom is…
20.09.2019 / 19:3021.09.2019 / 19:30@ WASP Working Art Space and ProductionBilete disponibile: https://eventbook.ro/other/bilete-explore-dance-festival-14-extinction-room-hopeless Concept, choreography: Sergiu MatișWith: Lisa Densem, Sergiu Matiș, Orlando RodriguezSound installation and composition: AGF aka Antye GreieText: Sergiu Matiș, Mila Pavicevic,Species research: Philip IngmanDramaturgy: Mila PavicevicSound: Martin LutzAnimal recordings from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Xeno-canto Foundation.Production management: 4Culture AssociationFinanced by AFCN –…
14.09.2019 // Secret location, Bucharest 15:00 – 15:30 Mårten Spångberg: 46 Dans contemporan (Contemporary dance) / solo performance Intrarea liberă / Free entrance Rezervări / Reservations: contact@waspmagazine.com With and by: Mårten Spångberg Rehearsal director: Sidney Barnes AI and programming: Heiko Göltzer Duration: 15 minutes If abstract things can exist, such as a rumour, a jpeg stored on a hard drive,…
13 și 14 septembrie 2019, ora 19:30 @ WASP Working Art Space and Production (Str. Ion Minulescu 67-93, corp E, etaj 2, sector 3, Bucuresti) ▪️ Bilete disponibile pe: https://eventbook.ro/other/bilete-explore-dance-festival-14-anthropology eXplore festival # 14 – Bucharest International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival starts in Bucharest on September 13, 2019, with the premiere of Anthropology. A long awaited performance, that will be presented later…