Every day we go through a series of emotions, more or less visible – joy, fear, sadness, anger, surprise, and disgust – states of the body as they are perceived mentally.

     But what do we do with them in a world in which we are encouraged to separate reason from affect? How much do we deny our emotions, while trying to keep the balance in stressful situations, in a technological environment that is continuously and rapidly changing? What echo do every day experiences have in our body, what do we choose to keep from what we live, what do we ignore and what do we express?

     “Don’t take it personally” is an invitation in a space where emotion becomes movement, sound, color. Separately and together, the proposals of the five artists that collaborate in this project engage body and imagination in an immersive experience that sets out to offer perspectives about somatization. Each proposal has an immediate consequence, but don’t take it personally.
 

     “Don’t take it personally is a project produced by the Developing Art Association. It has been presented in a work in progress version within an artistic residency offered by the Gabriela Tudor Foundation in partnership with the Cultural Center “George Apostu” in Bacău, in May 2019.