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Alexandra PIRICI  

 

Hosted by: Cluj Cultural Center

 


Bucharest, Romania 


 

Biography

Alexandra Pirici is a Romanian artist and choreographer whose performances and installations explore history and invisible structures of power, in both gallery and public spaces. Her work was shown in the Romanian pavilion at the 55th edition of the Venice Biennial (2013); at Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg (2014); at the Berlin Biennale (2016); and in the decennial exhibition Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017). She has also presented her performative environments at Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2014); the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2014); the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2014-15); the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2015); Tate Modern, London (2015); and the New Museum, New York (2018), among many others.

Alexandra Pirici works in museum contexts, theatrical frameworks and the public space. She choreographs ongoing actions, performative monuments and performative environments that fuse dance, sculpture, spoken word and music. Her works deal with monumentality or the history of specific places and institutions in order to playfully tackle and transform existing hierarchies. They also reflect on the history and function of gestures in art and popular culture or on questions about the body, its presence, absence or image and the politics of capture. Her performative artworks are part of private and public collections as live actions.


Artist's Statement

I am interested in reclaiming the body as an apparatus for scientific experiments, observation and knowledge production; in reimagining life and the human in "movement", beyond managerial, extractivist quantification and standardisation cutting across both old and new industries (such as data or the arts turned "creative industries"); in embodied perception and sensuous reason as necessary paths to a shift in the production of knowledge, from the so-called "disembodied objectivity" of 17th century masculinist rationalism that spurted a subsequent simplification of life into the plantation and factory models of production, colonial conquest and extraction, to a multi-perspectival production of truth and knowledge, now crucial for enabling the survival and nurturing of an entangled, multi-species world. I believe an insistence on a complementary re-grounding of abstraction in embodied, subjective experience has a lot to do with how we imagine a future of well-being, community, education and intelligence altogether. It might also help us think beyond the current industrial paradigm that continues to ravage and destroy complex life-systems and ecologies, and imagine different forms of collaborative living.

 


 

 

#CHOREOGRAPHY #INSTALLATION   #PERFORMANCE      

 


 

SDG Goals:

  • Goal 3. Good Health and Well Being
  • Goal 4. Quality Education 
  • Goal 9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Goal 11. Sustainable cities and communities
  • Goal 15. Life on Land

 


 

Collaborates with:
Paco Calvo

     
 

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