About me
Graduate in English and Contemporary Art possessing outstanding interpersonal, analytical and organisational skills. Progressive experience directing complex projects in various areas stretching from art criticism, curating and promoting art events. Firm believer in weaponizing minds, affects and behaviors through art.
Projects
- Time Delusion Space and time are pure intuitions through which we perceive the world according to forms or structures belonging to our sensitivity. Often these structural patterns direct our envisioning of time into metaphors of flow, continuity, presence and absence. More generally time has been pictured as a generative and partitive stream which is either linear, circular or fragmented. These age enduring metaphors of time as river, spring and ongoing flow of future anticipatory moments transformed into an acutely felt present which in turn becomes an often melancholic past– are ways we conceive finitude and motion of life or matter. This flow usually delineates the memory of the body or fabric reacting to the inner deconstruction and erosion of their generative impetus. The visual workings of fabric or time are also felt as rhythmical , serial and generative. Their seriality and repetitive folding do not point to their sameness or their difference but to the relationality between each fibre or time unit which, in turn, opens up a speculative web of roads untaken.
Work history
Public Speaker
Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 22, 00-124 Warszawa, PolandFreelance
Public Presentation as Part of East Art magazines residency: Super Chill. Extra Sad: Contemporary Art from the Deep(Est): a talk about the Iași contemporary art scene, organized by Magazyn Szum, part of the project East Art Mags. Co-funded by International Visegrad Fund (http://visegradfund.org/)
and AFCN (http://afcn.ro/). The talk was be structured around Stefano Harney&Fred Moten's concept of the undercommons, the space of the
appositional basement where impractical academics and rogue artists learn that “ to be together in the undercommons"(Moten&Harvey). The talk's aimed to survey the developments of contemporary art in Jassy from the late nineties up to the present.
Contributor/ Translator
Bucharest, RomaniaFreelance
Reviewer of art exhibitions in Bucharest and abroad http://revistaarta.ro/en; Winner of Art Critic Residency within East Art Magazine (Szum Magazine- Warsaw); Winner of "Natura Critica" (Critical Nature), an art criticism workshop organized by Revista Arta and National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest.
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Education
Masters, Postgraduate
- Canterbury, United Kingdom
The Contemporary was a cross-disciplinary M.A program whose aim was to discover what it means to read the contemporary period through its aesthetic practices and to think theoretically about the contemporary moment.
The program was co-taught by staff from the School of English, the School of Arts, the School of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, with seminars alternating between the Kent campus at Canterbury and the ICA. Through the seminars delivered at the ICA, which arose directly out of the ICA's 2016/2017 program, we were introduced to examples of current aesthetic practice as well as to spaces and structures of the contemporary.
MPhil: American Studies
- Iași, Romania
1 year Erasmus study/ research exchange with Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. Completed with a thesis titled "Botanical Reveries in Henri David Thoreau's Late Works" that investigated posthumanist ideas and ideals in
Thoreau's natural history writings.
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