Leaking into the World

By: Simona Deaconescu, Ioana Vreme Moser, Simina Oprescu
With: Silvia Brazzale, Laura Murariu, Hunor Varga, Beatrice Zaveckaite, Andrei Boariu, Andra Muntenașu
Curator: Alex Radu

Biographies

Born in Romania in 1987, Simona Deaconescu is a choreographer and filmmaker based in Bucharest. Her work moves between historical archives and speculative fiction, often combining performance, installation, and film. She is interested in how bodies are shaped by their environments, histories, and technologies, and creates choreography that extends beyond the human body.
She studied choreography at the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest and film directing at the Media University of Romania. Her practice has developed through international research and innovation networks and programmes including Moving Digits, MODINA, biofriction, and Forecast. She has twice been selected as an Aerowaves Artist and was named a Moving Balkans Artist in 2025.
In 2014, Simona founded Tangaj Collective, a transdisciplinary production company bringing together artists and researchers. Its projects span performances, installations, films, and video works and have been presented across the Balkans, Eastern and Western Europe, British Columbia, Mexico, Madagascar, and South Africa.
Recent presentations include Tanz im August (DE), Oriente Occidente (IT), Bazaar Festival (CZ), Tanzmainz (DE), and CoFestival (SI). In 2026, she will also present a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania.
From historic dance pandemics to microbiology, it seems no subject is too complex or challenging for the choreographer—and if there’s any fervor here, it’s for new creation and innovating the form. (Janet Smith, Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver, 2024)

Born in Romania in 1994, Ioana Vreme Moser is a sound artist based in Berlin. Her work explores the material side of electronics, combining hardware, sound, fluidics, and found or organic materials. She builds instruments and installations in which circuits interact with bodies, water, air, minerals, and everyday objects, using sound to trace histories of technology and its connections to natural environments.
She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design in Timișoara and studied at the Intermedia Department of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Her practice has developed through research, residencies, and teaching at institutions including the Tangible Music Lab at Kunstuniversität Linz, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of the Arts Berlin. In 2025, she received an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica for Mineral Amnesiaand an Honorary Mention for Fluid Anatomy.
Her projects move between sound installation, performance, and experimental instrument-making, often returning to obsolete or overlooked technologies as material for new forms. Recent works include Mineral Amnesia, Fluid Anatomy, and Arsenic Ballerinas, which explore memory, computation, fluidics, minerals, and the material histories of electronics.
Her work has been presented at Ars Electronica (AT), ZKM Karlsruhe (DE), CTM Festival (DE), Rewire Festival (NL), the National Gallery of Denmark (DK), Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE), Fonderie Darling (CA), and Manifesta 14 (XK).
Ioana Vreme Moser invites us to pause and be aware of the fragility of our existence. She encourages us to listen to and respect our own slow but stable rhythm, like that of a resilient nature. (Diane Pricop, Obsolete, 2024)

Born in Romania in 1993, Simina Oprescu is a composer of electroacoustic music and sound artist based in Berlin. Her work focuses on the acoustic and spectral properties of sound, combining composition, spatial practices, and sound installation. She is interested in how sound is perceived physically and psychologically, and often works with psychoacoustics, consciousness studies, and the relationship between sound, space, and the body.
Her practice moves between electroacoustic composition, sound sculpture, installation, and interdisciplinary collaborations with visual and performance artists. In 2020, she was selected as a SHAPE+ artist, a European platform supporting innovative music and audiovisual practices. Her music has also been released by the Swiss experimental label Hallow Ground.
Her work has been presented internationally in festivals, museums, galleries, and radio platforms, including EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial, Museum Tinguely (CH), Märkisches Museum (DE), Palmer Gallery (UK), Art Encounters Foundation (RO), MOTA Museum (SI), n.b.k. Berlin (DE), Hošek Contemporary (DE), SONICA (SI), Cynetart (DE), Rokolectiv (RO), Simultan (RO), and ORF musikprotokoll (AT).
Her work has been featured in publications including The Wire and Positionen Berlin.
Her music is fascinating and makes you consider the relationship between yourself and the sounds that surround you, how you interact with them and react to them, where they touch you the most, how and why. (Will Pinfold, Spectrum Culture, 2024)

Leaking into the World is a cultural project organized by Tangaj Collective Association in partnership with the Contemporary Art Space Association, co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN).
The project 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 for the way in which the project’s results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding beneficiary.

Iridescent 2026 partners

Institutional Partners
Ministry of Culture · Aerowaves · Moving Balkans · European Union · Onassis Stegi · Greek Embassy in Bucharest · Hellenic Union of Romania · Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest · MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania · “I.L. Caragiale” National Theater · “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History

Cultural Partners
LINOTIP – Independent Choreographic Center · /SAC @ Berthelot & Malmaison · Tangaj Collective Association · Cărturești · Cinema Union · Terapie Pentru Mișcare · Petec Association · O2G Association · Theaters

Main Media Partner
Radio Guerrilla

Media Partners
Zile și Nopți · Matca Magazine · Scena Magazine · Arta Magazine · ELLE · TVR Cultural · Munteanu Recomandă · AGERPRES · VisitBucharest · Radio România Cultural · Haute Culture · Liternet · The Institute · Ceașca de Cultură · Daily Magazine · Modernism · Zeppelin · Iscoada · B-Critic · România Pozitivă