Werkvortrag & Workshop mit Irina Gheorge

Werkvortrag, 13.05.2020, (online)

Irina Gheorghe works primarily with performance, in combination with drawing, installation or video, to address the tensions inherent in the attempts to speak about things beyond our possibilities of observation, from extraterrestrial life to hypothetical planets. Her work explores the notion of deviation as a technique of estranging the everyday, abstraction as a language for interstellar communication and the absurd as the mood of interaction with a world beyond perception. Since 2009, Irina Gheorghe has also been working with Alina Popa as part of the artist duo The Bureau of Melodramatic Research to investigate how passions shape contemporary society, as well as our affective relationship to an unhuman universe.

Workshop, 27.05. + 28.05.2020, (online)

Irina Gheorghe (g. 1981, in Târgoviște, Rumanien) Performancekünstlerin, hat Malerei und Fotografie an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Bukarest studiert und ist derzeit Doktorandin am GradCAM/Dublin Technologisches Institut.
Sie arbeitet in erster Linie mit Performance in Kombination mit Zeichnung, Installation und Video, um die Spannungen zu thematisieren, die auftreten, wenn die Kunst über Dinge sprechen will, die außerhalb unserer Wahrnehmungsmöglichkeiten liegen, vom außerirdischen Leben bis zu hypothetischen Planeten. In ihrer jüngsten Arbeit untersucht sie den Begriff der Deviation /Abweichung als eine Technik zur Entfremdung des Alltags.
http://thebureauofmelodramaticresearch.blogspot.com
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The workshop will explore techniques through which things which are not present in the space might start to appear. How can an environment become strange while staying the same? When does experience betray and how can this betrayal become productive? The aim is not to make things which are not there, somehow, be there - as soon as this happens, they no longer are things which are not there, they have become things which are there, so our endeavour has failed. What we will try to do, rather, is invoke things which are not there while retaining a sense of their not-being-there through disjunctive juxtapositions between speech, action and space. Starting from these practices, and bringing in particular interests from their own work, the participants will develop short presentations, solo or collaborative, which will be discussed in the group.

Irina Gheorghe's work has been shown at: Project Art Center Dublin; Swimming Pool, Sofia; Nida Art Colony, Neringa; Changing Room, Berlin; Romanian Cultural Institute, Berlin; Zona Sztuki Aktualnej, Szczecin; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; CCA Derry; Chapter Thirteen/Glasgow International; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; HOME Manchester; Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest; CAC Vilnius; TRAFO, Budapest; S A V V Y Contemporary, Berlin; Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York; Times Museum, Guangzhou; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Skolska 28, Prague; BAK, Utrecht; DEPO, Istanbul; and Galeria Posibila, Bucharest; among others. She studied painting and photography at the National University of Arts Bucharest and is currently a PhD in practice candidate at GradCAM, with support from the Fiosraigh Scholarship Program of TU Dublin.

Irina Gheorghe, All the Things Which Are Not There (Dublin), installation and Preliminary Remarks on the Study of What Is Not There, performance, Project Arts Center, Dublin, 2020. Photo: Senija Topcic