On Rain, Rivers, Streams…
The project On Rains, Rivers, Streams... brings together the results of an interdisciplinary research on the relationship between people and water, conducted by visual artists, choreographers and theorists from anthropology, ethnology and psychology. The focal point of the approach focuses on the purifying and, at the same time, destructive power of water, while emphasizing the multiple meanings of the action of washing.
Staying for two weeks in three areas in Romania (Danube Delta, Jiului Valley, Ioanid and Icoanei Parks) where the memory of water has different meanings for the local communities, the project team, questioning through a transdisciplinary working methodology the contemporary dimension of the phrase panta rhei, relates to the beds, meanders and channels through which water has dug for centuries and which humans have tried in vain to domesticate. The research process is guided by a series of key questions that gravitate around the act of washing, from the human need for purification, to the clean- dirty dichotomy and the mythico-poetic role of women as agents of physical and spiritual cleansing in the family and in society. In an organic way, the art objects or performative installations in the exhibition also submit themselves to the same set of questions, becoming themselves bearing the traces of water or washing processes.
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PROJECT TEAM
Alina Ușurelu (interdisciplinary artist), Cristina Lilienfeld (choreographer), Lala Misosniky (sonic artist), Ema Alexandrescu (psychologist), Gabriel Durlan (visual artist), Rucsandra Pop (artist and anthropologist), Alec Bălășescu (anthropologist), Georgiana Vlahbei (ethnologist, museographer and artist), Adriana Butoi (interdisciplinary artist), Lena Ciobanu (visual artist), Maria Bîrsan (curator)
On Rain, Rivers, Streams… is a project of the Developing Art Association co-financed by
National Cultural Fund Administration - AFCN.
With the support of: Rezidenţa9, Photography Resource Center, UrbanLab Valea Jiului, Museum
Romanian Peasant, SNSPA - Anthropology, MACAIA.
Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Adevărul, Days and Nights, Metropolis Newspaper, Cultural Observatory, Golan Magazine, The Institute, Bookhub, Capital Cultural, life.ro, Mindcraft Stories, Iscoada, Happ.ro, Spotmedia, Savantgarde.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
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