IOANA GEORGETA TURCAN

CARENTIA, 2024

CARENTIA is a sound and gestural performance on the theme of caring and its absence, realised in the context of waiting and a possible loss; approached through the gestures and live sounds of the rituals of washing and watering (drinking water, washing hands and feet, watering flowers, putting out a ritual fire made with matches, throwing water) - massaging audience's hands and combing their hair - while creating a soundscape in a loop with all the present sounds.

Interior design by Sergiu Neculici

VANISHING POINT/PUNCTUL DE FUGĂ, 2023

Vanishing Point is an artistic approach that explores the experience of care from the perspective of the caregiver. Our process was formed around the need to understand the complexity of the caring relationship when it is characterized by varying degrees of co-dependency, to make present issues that usually occupy a restricted space in the collective consciousness, especially when we are not confronted with this situation in a direct way.

We invited caregivers from Cluj-Napoca in a series of workshops in which, with the help of tools from performing arts, psychotherapy and boxing, we built a playful context to evoke situations, dynamics and particularities of this situation.

We end this stage of the process with a quasi-documentary installation, a testimony of the workshops, later reconstructed with the intention of sensually communicating our encounter with the infinite declensions and intersections of the issues surrounding this subject.

collaboration with IOANA HOGMAN, ELA IONESCU, MIHAI PĂCURAR, MARIA BRUDAȘCĂ

documentation exhibition at OM CHOREOGRAPHIC CENTRE, CLUJ

photographed by MIHAI PĂCURAR

VANISHING POINT/PUNCTUL DE FUGĂ project was co-financed by Madera Creation and The National Cultural Fund.

PARTNERS: GREEN ROOM STUDIO, OM CHOREOGRAPHIC CENTER, CREIONETICA