technique: acryl on linden wood, silver leaf
size: 21cmx29cm
Category Archives: Visual Art
A measure of time
- experimental theatre/ drama/monolog
- performance that combine acting with video projections and live music
Teodora Ionescu : concept, directing, performer, visual artist (installation,costumes)
Jeroen Traanman : video art , light
Rikkert Achtereekte: music
Viorica Cernica &Vincent Nijhof: photos
A Measure of Time is an English speaking experimental theater play. The play searches the boundaries between classical/modern acting, music, sound art and multimedia, whereby the public play its part.The performance is based on idea developed by the French writer Jean Cocteau in his play “Le bell indifferent” and by Romanian writer Matei Visniec in his play “ Garbegebin man”. The whole performance is presented as a collage that contains four monologues. The main monologue, the woman’s story it is designed as a classical performance piece, no effects, no music, only the main character and the public. The “Woman story” includes the other monologues-stories that are introduces to the public by live projections and live music. During those moments the art of sound and video is combined with the art of physical theater, dance and acting.
Relation between couples and madness is used as a excuse to show a symptomatic form of isolation, alienation of a human. A daily drama but eternal about break up between lovers. It is a warning sign for the human relations, the metamorphosis of love that from the euphoric mood can lead to decadence. The play is a succession of circumstances revealing man’s failure on all levels, from the political level leading to the most frightening discovery- that self loss.
In a society suffering by schizophrenia, suffering by the gap between intellect and feeling, between body and soul, a return to what is human is necessary. The performance is a contemporary drama: the lack of real communication. Nobody hears and listen to nobody, the modern society, hyper mechanized, destroyed what make us human, the ability to love and to communicate. We hit each other like we hit a wall, the echoes are returning to us, it does not reach the others.
Like your shade, your roots follow you
“Like your shade, your roots follow you”(roots,hair and ink on rock)/ performance art ( see http://teodoraionescu.nl/projects/)
No matter where we come from, our origins are our roots.No matter where we go, they follow us. We cannot make them disappear. We can however create new ones.
concept: Teodora Ionescu
performer: Teodora ionescu
location : Faï centre (Hautes-Alpes, France)
Rope
“Rope”was created during the project Wonderous Stories: from Xenophobia to Amazement.
(The project was born having in mind the complex and dynamic European context we live in today, as one of the most culturally fragmented and intense migration regions in the world (and when we say this, we have in mind political and economic considerations, social aspects, cultural and historical ties between countries). In a constantly changing society, shaped by perceptions built by media or one-to-one interaction, one has a specific moment of decision: to be afraid or to be amazed).
Concept: Teodora Ionescu, Vasilis Dendrinos, Vaiva Kovieraite
performers: Iliasse Mariozzo, Teodora Ionescu , Konstantina Michalopoulou,Despoina Kpshl
location : PleinTheater Amsterdam 2012
photos, video art : Greta Alice Liekytė and Vaiva Kovieraite
