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ARTISTIC RESEARCH: intermittent & intertwined
My
work is an assemblage of seemingly dispersed yet interlinked stories (fiction and autofiction) consisting of photography, text, sound, performance art and installations. Whatever I do, make or
write, the aim is to explore, to try to make sense of something. This something is me, is us,
and the ways in which we relate to one another and to the larger realm
of life. I curently work on a publication that will cover the main themes of my work from 2003 to 2020: (1) Writing as Resistance: intuitive knowledge production (2) Idiosyncratically here, the Stranger as a Lens: performing artistic research and (3) Sanātana Mood: Asian Journeys >> read more
TEACHING and MENTORING
Mentoring a master student on artistic research and dissemination (website design) via Toneelacademie Maastricht
Guest-lecture Eerlijkheid als persoonijke verhouding tot Rechtvaardigheid, LUCA School of Arts in Genk
Teaching Daoyin (a Taoist body practice developed by Dr. Dan Vercammen) to small groups in Cluj-Napoca
Mentoring artists on how to think and make their websites ~ FuseeDoree.com
and Diego-Gil.com ~ in Amsterdam
Dissemination as Artistic Practice,
speaker at the two-day colloquium ‘Evaluating Research in the Arts’ at
the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in
Brussels
Dissemination as Artistic Practice,
leading a one-week workshop for PhD students at ENS des beaux-arts de
Lyon
Teaching Eveil Corporel classes to 4 - 6 years old children in French schools in Clermont-Ferrand
PUBLICATIONS and INTERVIEWS
River and Ocean, short essay, Estuaries: Ways of knowing, ARIAS (Rietveld Academy, UvA, VU, Sandberg Institute, AHK)
Language as Home, contribution to Practice Sharing, language-based artistic research, The Reseach Catalogue
As sweet as it can get, out and about in
Molenbeek, essay, contribution to group catalogue, La Bellone, Brussels
a
dream. a story., very short essay, contribuition to Decentre, Concerning artist-run culture, YYZBOOKS, Toronto
Versuri in zbor, lacrimi pulbere de
soare, poetry, Editura NICO, Targu Mures
QuoVadis, guest of Margareta Puscas, Radio Romania Targu Mures, radio interview about the Asian Journeys
Aproapele vazut de departe, interview in Cuvantul Liber, local newspaper, Targu Mures
GRANTS
Mira and the Sage, grant (aide à l'installation) offered
by la DRAC Auvergne (French Ministry of Culture)
OnlineWhiteCube, advocating open source editors and minimalist design, grant
offered by ARDTA, Clermont-Ferrand
Not Here Not There, dance &
video, hosted by Romanian Cultural Institute Paris (grant) and CND Pantin, Paris
ART DIRECTION / artist run a-i-r as artistic praxis
morisena
was an artist-in-residence centre that I've set up and directed as a
garden-centred context for exploring creativity and collaboration in a
spirit of Permaculture and local traditions. Renovating the location, initiating and producing two
collaborative art projects: Hitchhiking to Transylvania and TransyMusic
musafir foundation - a foundation set up symbolically, as a manifesto for welcoming travelers as guests
EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS, PERFORMANCES
River and Sky, Photographs of the valley of Ganges in India, De Donkere Kamer #18, Genk
I
Was Here Too / On My Way, residency, interventions, journaling, Centre
Z33, Hasselt
Idiosyncratically here,
The Stranger as a Lens, three performances, Theatre Festival, Antwerp
France, Fasting, Feasting, residency, performance, writing, PAF in
St. Erne
Fata Morgana, India, installation-performance, Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
24
Hours at Home in Europe, group exhibition, photography, Trans
Europe Halles
Rite. Rhythm. India.,
photography and book launch, Teatru74, Targu Mures
In suflet, India (Within
Soul, India), photography, Galeria Foto AzoMures, Targu Mures
People of India,
photography, MacBike, Amsterdam
CONSULTANCY and PROJECT MANAGEMENT: a seven years trajectory
Optimisation of project management methods, managing design &
implementation of new media projects in the fields of culture,
education (at Designserver and Waag Society) with partners such as
Amnesty International, Africaserver, Central Museum Utrecht, UvA, VU
Medical Center, TNO etc. Datawarehouse / datamining consultancy and
database consolidation for various corporations usch as KLM, Schiphol
Group, JobTrack, Nissan Europe H.Q..
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