ELENA COPUZEANU - PERFORMANTA - GALERIA SIMEZA - FILM DE MURIVALE P I

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IPA - first day - dance performance, Bucharest 2014

In Real Time Composition, I organize my body and thoughts into unitary and coherent whole. I'm suddenly in a live dialogue with myself, in a fragile process, in which the elections succeed quickly. I choose to keep a gesture, to correlate it with a certain part of the body, and to give up to another. The meanings are starting to circulate through the whole body. My attention is that which, as a lover of the city, cross and pass over the body seduced by countless situations and possibilities. The body became a city. It has secret parts, dead ends, circuits, dull surfaces, inexpressive ways, errors, lockups, or liberating surprises. My Attention, a mysterious pilgrim, fell in love with a city-body and miss the way, and finally find itself, in a compound of exaltation, gestures, movements or even dance.

'Virtual me' - soon at WASP Bucharest

'Virtual me' este o colaborare intre un artist visual/performer si un fotograf. Impreuna cu Emilian Savescu, voi explora posibilele cai ale acestei tehnici media de a creea tururi virtuale ale unor spatii interioare sau exterioare, in care, eu ca si performer, ma voi integra prin ipostaze ale corpului in dans si prin actiuni . Rezultatul final va fi o alcatuire de video-uri iar prezentarea lor, pe unul sau mai multe monitoare. Navigarea privitorului se va putea face din afara, invitand la interactivitate. Am fost fascinata de tehnica 'Turului virtual' si provocata de a performa intr-un spatiu pe care privitorul are posibilitatea apoi, sa-l exploreze din exterior printr-un device adaugat programului. Privitorul are posibilitatea sa exploreze virtual anumite spatii , sa le parcurga in sensul in care isi doreste. Insertia si mai bine zis intruziunea corpului meu care performeaza traversand aceste spatii expuse in "Turul virtual'', imi da posibilitatea sa creez raporturi subtile, neprevazute cu acele spatii, cu diversele lor caracteristici si detalii, cu specificitatea lor. Ma provoaca sa gasesc miscarea/dansul/pozitia care sa le completeze, sa le dea sensuri noi, si nu in ultimul rand sa surprinda privitorul. Proiectul vrea sa exploreze cat mai mult din tehnica "Turului virtual" sa gaseasca noi tehnici media, care sa o imbogateasca. ‘Virtual me’ isi propune sa genereze spatii inedite, reformulate, regandite in urma raportului acestora cu un corp viu si in miscare. Corpul insusi, se va lasa influentat de inovatia tehnologica, isi va gasi noi forme de expresie, de miscare/dans si dialog cu propriile aparitii, cat si cu ceea ce voi intui ca o sa fie apoi, abordarea curioasa a publicului.

Fragmentarium - 2011

To whom it might concern, Elena Copuzeanu is one of the very first representatives of the younger generation of Romanian artists who engaged in the reworking of the performance as an artistic genre. She has set landmarks in the happening&performance practices. Back in the mid-90s, she succeeded to focus wider attention on group- or solo-performances developing both in the public space in its physical sense (the street) and in its virtual sense too (mass-media, posters, publications). Her 1994 "Homage to Mandela" (nothing to do with the late Nelson Mandela, but with a local, Bucharest thug of the same nickname) highlighted the aggressive invasion of public prejudices linked to the burgeoning consumer culture onto the personal/visual space of the individuals sharing the same urban milieu. Her further works, actions and events went more and more toward enacting the innermost reception of external, socially codified stimuli. Her intuitive works mirror the paradoxical cohabitation of socially codified gestures and behaviors and personally estranged, inchoate feelings. Her work is neither aesthetic, pleasurable, nor therapeutic, healing, but it keeps on being vivid and troubling. erwin kessler, art critic

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