Contemporary Art Romania

14 October 2011

Zilele strambe la Caminul Cultural

Programul "ZILELE STRÂMBE" şi acţiunile practice asociate acestuia îşi propun să abordeze, în mod performativ, forme şi probleme delicate sau generatoare de tensiune în cadrul societăţii româneşti şi nu numai. De la tensiunile rasiale la problemele de gen, la politicile reprezentării. Demersul nostru nu îşi propune să repete iniţiativele activiste deja existente, ci mai degrabă să forţeze limitele, să combine formele şi să aducă în prim-plan discursurile şi proiectele artistice axate pe subiecte care nu îşi găsesc locul cu uşurinţă în societatea romanească.
“ZILELE STRÂMBE” cuprind o serie de evenimente, ateliere şi spectacole ce vor avea loc între 18 octombrie – 25
 noiembrie, în diferite spații din Bucureşti. Programul debutează cu spectacolul “Aaleef”, al coregrafului marocan Taoufiq Izeddiou, la Teatrul Odeon din Bucureşti şi se încheie cu marele bal “Little Paris is Burning!”.
Un proiect iniţiat de coregraful Brynjar Bandlien.
“Pentru că a fi strâmb chiar şi un pic, a devia, a sări de pe fix, a altera, a deraia de pe linia ce ţi s-a tras în faţă e fundamental frumos, moral şi singurul mod viabil de a face politică şi de a privi istoria drept în ochi. Strâmb, demn şi frumos!” (Cosmin Costinas)
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"Strâmb" in Romanian language means "crooked". It means something that is not straight but it does not mean queer. It has a particular meaning that allows us to use it in a rather "wide" sense. And of course, also in a wild one. 
ZILELE STRÂMBE practice and program wants to performatively address and push forms and issues that are fragile or tense in Romanian society but not only. From the racial issues to gender questions, from the new bio-religious demands to politics of representation. However ZILELE STRÂMBE do not aim to double the existing activist activity. It rather wants to push limits, mix forms and bring forward discourses and art projects that address certain tensions. It is for the moment our most important project. One that we find urgent. One that is missing. One that brings together speech, representation, text and discourse. 
ZILELE STRÂMBE encompass a series of events, workshops and shows which are taking place in the period 18 October – 25 November, in different spaces in Bucharest. 
The program starts with the show “Aaleef”, of Moroccan choreographer Taoufiq Izeddiou, at Odeon Theatre in Bucharest and ends with the Big Ball “Little Paris is Burning!”.  
A project initiated by choreographer Brynjar Bandlien.
“Because being ever so little awry, deviating, running amok, diverging, derailing from the rut that has been traced for you is something fundamentally beautiful, morally just, in addition to being the only viable way of engaging in politics as well as of looking history in the eyes, and that in turn, because that rut or track that would have thus gone on and on along the same fascist lines ad infinitum is irreversibly dislocated. ‘Strâmb’, dignified and beautiful." (Cosmin Costinaş)

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