My practice focuses on embodied and tacit knowledge, investigating how these alternatives way of engaging with the world can be revealed through video and performance. I work with choreography as a tool of investigation and expression, creating scripts and scores as frameworks for texts, movements, and gestures. I am particularly interested in the meeting point between choreography as an artistic discipline and choreographies that can be encountered in public space, social spheres and domestic spaces. For this reason, I find locations such as the office building, the supermarket, the house, particularly interesting because they reveal an interplay between prescribed movements, postures and gestures, and the subjective way in which each body carries its personal history and lived experience.
A language that is felt – solo exhibition, 2023 - A language that is felt is the first outcome of a long period of research by Raluca Croitoru Croitoru into depictions of friendship between women. The work presented revolves around the history of friendship as told from a female perspective, riffing on Svetlana Boym's question 'what is the scenography of friendship?'. It was produced at the invitation of WET, through a pilot project in which they act as a creative producer, offering feedback and guidance throughout all the production stages of a moving image work.
A language that is felt – solo exhibition, 2023 - A language that is felt is the first outcome of a long period of research by Raluca Croitoru Croitoru into depictions of friendship between women. The work presented revolves around the history of friendship as told from a female perspective, riffing on Svetlana Boym's question 'what is the scenography of friendship?'. It was produced at the invitation of WET, through a pilot project in which they act as a creative producer, offering feedback and guidance throughout all the production stages of a moving image work.
Art History Aerobics – performance, 2022 - Performed at LEILEI Gallery and National Dance Center (CNDB) in Bucharest, 2022. Art History Aerobics is a performance conceived as an aerobics demonstration session whose content is inspired by the official chronology of European art history and its defining moments. The performer simultaneously embodies the role of an aerobics instructor and a storyteller. Using voice, body and imagination, the performers marks and illustrates different systems of representation of the body in the visual art. Duration: 20 min
Art History Aerobics – Performance, 2022 - Performed at LEILEI Gallery and National Dance Center (CNDB) in Bucharest, 2022. Art History Aerobics is a performance conceived as an aerobics demonstration session whose content is inspired by the official chronology of European art history and its defining moments. The performer simultaneously embodies the role of an aerobics instructor and a storyteller. Using voice, body and imagination, the performers marks and illustrates different systems of representation of the body in the visual art. Duration: 20 min
Water-based – solo exhibition, 2021 - mixed media installation (digitally scanned watercolors printed on fabric, dimensions 140cm x 160 cm; foil, dimensions variable). Exhibited at Growing Space Wielewaal, 2021.
Neutral Buoyancy – installation, 2020 - Mixed-media installation (printed watercolours, text, sound, publication). Exhibited as part of Open Access Showcase#1, the Botanical Garden, Cluj [RO] and Malaposta Theater, Lisbon [PT], 2020. Neutral Buoyancy is an installation that connects aurally bodies in water with bodies of water, through physical, technical- mediated and speculative immersion.
BODY SHIFT ERGO DRIFT – performance and video, 2018 - Performed at UBIK Theater, WORM Rotterdam, 2018 and screened in 2022 at Future Perfect #4, B5 Studios (RO). The work reflects on collective corporeal memory and the social symptoms of neoliberal capitalism. Its content speculates upon relationships between labor and leisure, production and consumption, living patterns and the movement of bodies in space, the dayshift and the nightlife. It combines individual and group choreographies with spoken-word parts and improvisation.
BODY SHIFT ERGO DRIFT – performance and video, 2018 - Performed at UBIK Theater, WORM Rotterdam, 2018 and screened in 2022 at Future Perfect #4, B5 Studios (RO). The work reflects on collective corporeal memory and the social symptoms of neoliberal capitalism. Its content speculates upon relationships between labor and leisure, production and consumption, living patterns and the movement of bodies in space, the dayshift and the nightlife. It combines individual and group choreographies with spoken-word parts and improvisation.
Suite for the Office – performance and video, 2017 - Suite for the Office is a site-specific choreography unfolding in the transit and waiting spaces of an office building. The architecture of the office building plays an essential role in defining the choreographic elements and the interactions taking place between the bodies of the performers and the body of the building. The performers' presence, movements, sounds and gestures reflect on feelings and social behaviors derived from post-Fordist labor environments, such as constant productivity and repetitiveness, dullness, seeing and being seen.
Suite for the Office – performance and video, 2017 - Suite for the Office is a site-specific choreography unfolding in the transit and waiting spaces of an office building. The architecture of the office building plays an essential role in defining the choreographic elements and the interactions taking place between the bodies of the performers and the body of the building. The performers' presence, movements, sounds and gestures reflect on feelings and social behaviors derived from post-Fordist labor environments, such as constant productivity and repetitiveness, dullness, seeing and being seen.
