Fictions, my body – Florin Flueraș & Adriana Gheorghe

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We are interested in the ways in which embodied presence generates word, and word generates new embodiment, challenging experiences and opening up new worlds, constantly shaping the perspectives and conventions in which we fit. What are the different roles that language accompanied by the body can acquire or access, from everyday speech to performance on stage, from language that fixes to language as potentiality? What do we become when we speak?

The invited artists and performers propose possible ways of working in the company of language, beyond illustration, by staking on the tension between representation and corporeality and on new alliances. We invite artists who use language ‘against’ language in one way or another into our dialogue.

The framework proposed and organized by Andreea David and Eliza Trefas, took shape as a result of their choreographic research started at the beginning of the year in the new CNDB production Fictions, my body (developed in the form of two 2 solo works, Where do I stay when I throw my word & Wor(l)ds).

This framework fulfills their desire to bring several artists and artists into dialogue, thus expanding the research theme by getting to know each other’s practice and their multiple approaches.

Presentations will take place every Wednesday in November.
16 November: Adriana Gheorghe, Corul, and Florin Flueraș, Heaven (Affective Recursive)

Florin Flueraș, Heaven (Affective Recursive) 

Heaven (Affective Recursive), was a research project in which many of the artists active in 2007 at the CNDB participated. The research is about the performance situation, by the performers, during the performance, from the inside. It starts from an inversion of corporeality specific to performance – instead of choreographing their bodies or having them express something, performers give time and space to a bodily sensitization, reflect and discuss how this affects what they feel, perceive, think and do in the situation they are in – in front of an audience, in a performance. The work includes their own reflection in real time, which then becomes the work, which is then reflected again… This paradoxical self-referentiality can change the affective atmosphere, sometimes to an ecstatic state (hence the name of the project)
Duration: 45min

Adriana Gheorghe, Corul

For about ten years I have been choreographing verbal language in the context of contemporary dance, in its many possible declensions, at the border of post-dramatic ttheatre, literature, theory, conceptual art and in the many relations it establishes with that situated & sensitive knowledge, in order to resensitize it.
I invest it with miraculous possibilities, we abuse each other, I destabilize it (speculatively/performatively/poetically) in clear contexts, especially in the black box, and I rely on it to establish alliances and constellations outside institutions.
I invoke its transgressive potential in reality – to save us – and wonder how it would make sense to return to it in the convention of the stage.
I have dedicated myself to the same constantly reformulated performative practice that deepens the connection between performativity (ecology, good dependence) and representation (logic of separation, difference) as two ways of accessing and conceiving reality. What remnants of separation that we can not do without? When does the background figure differentiate and when does it return to its place?
The chorus can be made up exclusively of protagonists or it can be a practice of becoming landscape.
Duration: aprox. 45 min

Special mentions

The works presented will be followed by artist talks.