Books on the Dancefloor – The Oracle of Performative Research
- Participatory installation & performance
- Free entry
90 min.
Info
Presented at the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance Laboratories, Books on the Dancefloor is a participatory installation consisting of individual and collective games and scores created around the processes of deterritorialisation of the physical library. The reading space is transformed into a ring for possible choreographies danced through words, gestures, and emotion. The piece functions as an open space, where the audience can leave and return. The CNDB Media Library becomes an inherently performative space which facilitates innovation, creativit and critical thinking among visitors, and represents a highly valuable infrastructure for interaction.
The Oracle of Performative Research is a constituent part of the installation and involves one-to-one performative readings based on a new concept and a set of oracle cards based on issues from the publication Performance Research. An oracle card system is a structure similar to tarot or other divination cards, a word derived from the Latin “divinare” which translates as “to predict, to be inspired by the unknown,” a practice of discovering knowledge or understanding current relationships and circumstances. In the case of the Oracle of Performative Research, it is not about riddling cards, but about reading cards. Each card brings a new perspective on existing experiences, opening us up to different ways of perceiving reality:
*What is past and will never return *Rupture *That which is not already known *Diversity *Coexistence with something strange *Hearing *Responsibility *Decomposition *Waste or nourishment * Vibration *Challenge *Healing *The most intimate love of the ear *Visual alarm *Permeability *Dematerialization *Intensification *Seduction and desire *Ephemerality *Physical memory *Immortality *Translucency *Oneiric *Mirror *Renewal * Steam *Materiality *Desert *Immaculate *Recomposition *Suspension *Encounter *Anticipation *Interaction *Change
By/with: Corina Cimpoieru, Renate Dinu, Paula Dunker
Texts co-author: Ilinca Micu
Graphic design: Cristiana Costin
Produced by: The National Centre for Dance Bucharest
Biographies
Corina Cimpoieru has a background in cultural anthropology and is currently working as a researcher and coordinator of the Media Library and Archive at the National Center for Dance Bucharest. In the last years, she has dedicated her time to identifying dance documents, researching in both private and institutional archives, in order to recover the history of Romanian dance and performance through archival practices that reconfigure their potential for contemporary projects: performing arts reenactments, dance and performance exhibitions, editorial projects.
Renate Dinu is a live artist and interdisciplinary cultural worker. In a continuous dynamic process of formation and transformation, she combines artistic talent with analytical skills, a bachelor’s degree in Economics with a master’s degree in Performing Arts. She lives and works in Bucharest, where she focuses on developing an artistic community that supports women and non-binary identities in the electronic music scene and continues to contribute to strengthening the local cultural infrastructure, working with contemporary art institutions and independent cultural associations.
Paula Dunker works in the live arts sector as a poet, actress, director, playwright and choreographer. She dances non-stop, generates movement, creates performances and costumes, writes, organizes events, is a trainer and coordinator, produces music, sings, dubs cartoons, acts in movies and DJs. A queer physical activist, she is most often found on the local contemporary dance scene, in the heart of Bucharest’s political theater and on LGBTQIA+ dancefloors.
Main media partner
Radio Guerilla
Media partners
Zile și nopți, Scena9, Agerpress, Elle, Happ.ro, Liternet, TVR Cultural, Radio România Cultural, Revista Arta, The Institute, Zeppelin, ISCOADA, Feeder, Visit Bucharest, Ziarul Metropolis, IQads, Ceașca de Cultură, Modernism.ro, Haute Culture Magazine, munteanurecomanda.ro, Daily Magazine
The Academy of Dance and Performance Labs is a cultural programme co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
The programme does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary.