Temps d’Images 2009 Experiment
Temps d’Images 2009 Experiment
Chantiers: Carmen Coțofană & Maria Drăghici
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Research project and cartography of the public space through different expression means – video, photo, dance, interview, sound. The implication of the choreographer/dancer as ”character” in this public space is essential for creating a contract between the social-general plan and the individual-intimate one. Through this contrast (group of people/individual) we want to realise the cartography of the space using the intimate space as a landmark and generator. The main point is realizing this material is the research and the experimentation of some contextual and performative situations proposed by the choreographer and the visual artist in a public space. This collaboration between the video proposal and the choreographic implication will be the starting point in building a dance performance which will contain the description of the daily life (video image) in counterpoint with the exposure of a personal history marked by the informational flux (choreographer/dancer).
choreographer/dancer: Carmen Coțofană
visual artist: Maria Drăghici
collaborating artists: Irina Gâdiuță, Paul Dunca
About the artists
Carmen Coțofană graduated from the choreography section of UNATC Bucharest, and she studies with a Danceweb-Europe scholarship in Vienna. She participated in workshops with Gigi Căciuleanu, Karine Saporta, Jean-Marc Heim, Jean Jerregaard, Pascal Alio, Mark Tompkins, Carol Brawn, Charles Lineham, Allison Green, Vera Mantero, Sebastian Prantl, David Zambrano, DD Dorvillier, Xavier Le Roy.
Personal projects: Recycle Me; Stage Psychosis; Free Megaestrasuperhyper; Step Forward; Take Five. She performs in 8 Days a Week, choreography by Eduard Gabia, Cvartet pentru o lavalieră, concept Vava Ștefănescu, Dedublarea; Iluzionistele, choreography by Mădălina Dan, Body Scape III, choreography by Sebastian Prantl, Ready (Modern) Made, choreography by Florin Fieroiu. She choreographs theatre-dance performances directed by Gianina Cărbunariu: Poimâine alaltăieri; Sado-Maso Blues Bar; Mady-Baby.edu etc.
Maria Drăghici develops, together with a creation community formed aroun the initiative Ofensiva generozității, the concept of active art/communitarian art in Romania. She tries to generate, together with the other artists involved in the project, the premises of an alterntive/active documentary school. Works with graphics, photography: Hope and Nostalgia; About Time; Documenting Hosman; video: Thank You For Your Flexibility; Harta sensibilă 3. Video/channel/installation: Rahova nonstop – documentary; Flexible – documentary; Glance #1: Elisa. Creates multimedia scenography for plays like: Mady-Baby.edu; Terorsim; or the audio/video/performative show XXX Cartoons. Exhibitions: Biografii / painting; Limit Signal / photography and digital multiplication techniques; Carozza da Letto / site-specific installation; Docufiction / documentary; Hope and Nostalgia / photography; Kamera Red / painting, photography, video; Brower 1 / photography, video; Offset 1 / photography, video; Artmix / video; De/re/construcții / photography, video.
