After the spring edition in Brașov, ORICE MOARTE E O POARTĂ travels this fall to Timișoara, where the artist and anthropologist Rucsandra Pop invites the local community to take part in a series of 8 performances, with a limited number of participants.
Starting from her own experience of losing loved ones during the pandemic, Rucsandra Pop invites you to a collective ritual of processing grief and accepting death. The performative installation is built around the idea that ANY DEATH IS A GATE and is an invitation to look for the meaning of life in death. Unlike traditional rituals, the one proposed in the performative installation is open, without fixed rules and without judgments, being mediated by art, and each participant can personalize it. Built in layers, the installation calls upon photography, collages, text, sound, textiles and tastes, but also practices that activate the senses and emotions.
The performances will take place between August 31 and September 5 at FABER Timișoara (Hall I FABER-AZUR) and are open to everyone, participation being free. Participants are invited to bring an object that reminds them of a loved one who is no longer with us, the objects can become part of the installation. Every evening there will be psychotherapists who can contain the emotions of those going through this experience, if necessary.
The last few years – marked by the pandemic – have left many families in mourning. The encounter with death upsets the inner order of any person, but also the order of a community. Rituals are meant to help people regain their lost balance after a death. The pandemic forced us to rewrite these rituals, to impoverish them. Travel restrictions prevented those far away from attending the funeral of a relative or friend, vigils and vigils moved to social media – people mourned their dead how and where they could.
There will also be an object book, in the pages of which you will find the texts from the performances signed by the artist Rucsandra Pop, the curator Iuliana Dumitru and the poets Alina Purcaru, Cristina A. Bejan, Elena Vlădăreanu, Ștefania Mihalache, Andrei Dósa, George Stefan and Răzvan Țupa. We urge you to keep this book or give it to anyone who has suffered a loss and needs support.
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// Entry is free // For reservations, access the link for each performance //
Saturday, August 31 // 5:00 p.m
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Saturday, August 31 // 7:00 p.m
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Sunday, September 1 // 5:00 p.m
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Sunday, September 1 // 19:00
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Monday, September 2 // 7:00 p.m
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Tuesday, September 3 // 7:00 p.m
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Wednesday, September 4 // 7:00 p.m
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Thursday, September 5 // 7:00 p.m
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Rucsandra Pop – initiator of the project and performer; Iuliana Dumitru – curator; Irina Botea Bucan and Jon Dean – video; Ioana Flora – directing consultant; Gabriela Alexe – ambient sound producer; Raluca Moșescu-Bumbac, Laura-Maria Ilie, Diana Petruț – communication; Iulian Eremia – installation installation; Alec Pop – art director
Psychotherapists: Ancuța Maria Gurza – doctor in psychology and clinical psychologist; Ciprian Angheluță – psychologist and psychotherapist
Partners: FABER Timișoara, Multicultural Center of Transilvania University of Brașov, Faculty of Letters of Transilvania University of Brașov, Hera Foundation, Zeppelin, ISCOADA, ARTHUBx.
EVERY DEATH IS A GATE is a Fragile Society (www.fragile-society.org) production.
