About Rain, Rivers, Streams…
The project About Rain, Rivers, Streams… brings together the results of an interdisciplinary research on the relationship between humans and water, led by visual artists, choreographers and theorists from anthropology, ethnology and psychology. The focal point of the approach is shaped around the purifying and, at the same time, destructive power of water, emphasizing the multiple meanings of the act of washing.
Staying for two weeks in three areas of Romania (Danube Delta, Jiu Valley, Ioanid and Icoanei Parks) where the memory of water has different valences for the host communities, the project team, questioning through a transdisciplinary working methodology the contemporary dimension of the phrase panta rhei, relates to the riverbeds, meanders and channels through which water has dug for centuries and which man has tried in vain to domesticate. The research process is guided by a series of key questions that revolve around the act of washing, starting from the need for purification of man, to the clean-dirty dichotomy and the mytho-poetic role of agents of physical and spiritual cleansing occupied by women in the family and in society. Organically, the art objects or performative installations in the exhibition also submit to the same set of questions, coming to bear the traces of water or the washing processes themselves.
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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)
About 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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