Chantiers: Alexandra Pirici & Alexandru Mirutziu

I started to question why I chose to produce live performances, what exactly determines the preference for something that takes place in the present, under the very eyes of the public, which is the strong point of the artistic demarche, how it functions. This question appeared in rapport with cinematography, with the film as a means of expression. What kind of experience can this kind of performance offer? Already the representation and the means to create the illusion in the live show are obsolete.
I am interested in a way of constructing in which the most important is the moment when the action takes place, in which every ”gesture” (action) does not subordinate to a pre-established idea and thus it can be reevaluated, its potential can be reconsidered so that a narrative ”point zero” exists in very moment and also the freedom to deviate, to leave things become without following or imposing a certain denouement.
Alexandra Pirici

coreographer/dancer: Alexandra Pirici
visual artist: Alexandru Mirutziu

About the artists

Alexandra Pirici is an artist who works undisciplined, across different mediums, from choreography to visual arts and music (under the name Adda Kaleh). Recent works include An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale – together with Manuel Pelmuș, exhibited in the Romanian Pavilion at the 55th edition of the Venice Biennale, and her works have been presented in contexts such as the Van Abbemuseum, Centre Pompidou, Manifesta10, or Hebbel am Uffer, among others. For Temps d’Images, Alexandra Pirici will present Delicate Instruments Handled with Care, an ongoing action co-produced by imagetanz/brut Vienna and the National Dance Center Bucharest.

Alex Mirutziu lives and works in Romania and the UK. His works include conceptual writing, performance, photography and video installations. At age 19, he is accepted without examination at the University of Fine Arts from Cluj as exceptional student. Following the disturbing soloist performance Atrocity Exhibition, in 2004 he goes on to further his research in Spain at the University of Fine Arts, Cuenca, where his performative approaches provoked one of his projects to be prohibited, issuing strong reactions among artists and scholars in both Spain and Romania. He toured England with his famous social comment performance, Leave Gordon Brown Alone, produced in Liverpool, Leeds, Berlin. He received international recognition in Madrid and Paris at Optica Video Art Festival.
Selected works: Message in a Bottle, Lumen Evolution Festival, Optica, International Festival of Video Art, The Colour Of My Middleclass, McKenzie Pavilion Gallery, London, Sex in Transition, Art Interventions, Kucevo, Leave Gordon Brown Alone, East Street Arts, Leeds, Independants Biennial 08, Liverpool, DUVE Gallery, Berlin, Anatomission, Cum2Cut Film Festival, Berlin, The Art of Sin, Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis.