Raluca Croitoru

performance - audiovisueel - experimenteel - artistiek onderzoek - geluid

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.

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    • A language that is felt

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 24-11-2023 t/m 16-12-2023
    • In samenwerking met: WET Film
    • Locatie: WET Film, Rotterdam
    • Solo exhibition at WET. This was the first outcome of a long period of research into depictions of friendship between women. It was also a pilot project for WET acting as a creative producer, offering feedback and guidance throughout all the production stages of a moving image work.
    • https://wetfilm.org/2023/11/14/raluca-croitoru-a-language-that-is-felt/

    Workshop collaborator and facilitator for Maike Hemmers’ installation in the Dolf Henkes Prize 2023

    Workshop

    Art History Aerobics

    Performance

    • 09-11-2023 t/m 09-11-2023
    • In samenwerking met: CNDB (National Dance Centre Bucharest)
    • Locatie: CNDB (National Dance Centre Bucharest), Bucharest
    • 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, she marks and illustrates different ways of understanding and representing the body in art.
    • https://cndb.ro/en/new_events/fictions-my-body-raluca-croitoru-catalina-gubandru/

    sound sound marks

    Workshop

    • 04-09-2021 t/m 04-09-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Research and Waves
    • Locatie: Changing Room, Berlin
    • sound workshop and vinyl contribution commissioned by Research and Waves as part of 'I can't hear you' event series. Raluca Croitoru facilitated a workshop focused on the acoustic properties of our work environments. Through listening exercises, thinking about sounds and through making, the participants imagined and experimented with making small sonic adjustments for a more creative and supportive work soundscape.
    • https://attune.researchandwaves.net/i-can-t-hear-you/slow-core.html

    Art History Aerobics at Fictions, my body

    Performance

    • 09-11-2022 t/m 09-11-2022
    • In samenwerking met: National Dance Centre Bucharest
    • Locatie: National Dance Centre Bucharest, Bucharest
    • Series of performance events under the name Fictions, my body. The invited artists and performers propose possible ways of working in the company of language, beyond illustration, by striking on the tension between representation and corporeality and on new alliances.
    • https://cndb.ro/en/new_events/fictions-my-body-raluca-croitoru-catalina-gubandru/

    Water-based

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 01-11-2021 t/m 22-11-2021
    • Locatie: Growing Space Wielewaal, Rotterdam
    • Water-based was an exhibition by Raluca Croitoru in Growing Space Wielewaal. It included two enlarged watercolors, digitally scanned and printed on fabric. Croitoru used brush strokes and inkjet droplets to think about representation, materiality, grief and letting go. The exhibition became a temporary resting space for floating bodies on their journey towards an unarticulated destination.
    • https://growingspacewielewaal.hotglue.me/

    Art History Aerobics at LEILEI Gallery

    Performance

    • 01-10-2021 t/m 01-10-2021
    • Locatie: LEILEI Gallery, Bucharest
    • Exploring new trends in contemporary digital art, where the use of images, videos or texts (sometimes even text generators) from the online environment has cemented itself as a creative process, the SEEN project proposes an exhibition of digital art, a foray into contemporary types or performance art.
    • https://propagarta.ro/imagini-video/seen-nucleu-0008/

    Neutral Buoyancy

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 01-09-2019 t/m 30-11-2020
    • In samenwerking met: Le Granit Theatre (Belfort, FR) ; DuplaCena / Temps d'Images Festival (Lisbon, PT) ; Colectiv A (Cluj, RO) and National Theatre Wales (Cardiff, UK)
    • Locatie: DuplaCena / Malaposta Theatre, Lisbon
    • Neutral Buoyancy was part of Open Access European Project and was displayed in three locations: the Botanical Garden in Cluj, Malaposta Theater in Lisbon and Le Granit Theater in Belfort. I worked with and through the properties of the aquatic environment, using sound to explore concepts of fluidity, buoyancy, and physical and speculative immersion. I produced a site-specific installation and a mixed media installation featuring a soundscape, prints on textile and a publication.
    • https://vimeo.com/524330010

    Future Perfect#4

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 01-10-2021 t/m 21-10-2021
    • Locatie: B5 studios, Targu Mures
    • The starting point of the Future Perfect #4 project was the works and ideas of artists whose practice is linked by a critical-reflexive attitude, questioning reality and the way we perceive it, learn about it or interact with it. This new generation expresses its conceptual strategies in various ways – film, text, performance, painting, sound, textile work -, processing the details of reality by creating transformative poetics.
    • https://arteast.ro/art_event/future-perfect-4/

    Garments Against Women / Nexus 1

    Performance

    • 01-09-2019 t/m 15-09-2019
    • In samenwerking met: Time Based Festival and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
    • Locatie: Portland, Oregon
    • 'A bonding together' is the meaning of the Latin word nexus that inspired curator Adela Demetja for the exhibition NEXUS 1 at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. The show's experimental format links and merges performance, film, music, installation and poetry by four European and two US artists in a single work. The show came together after a two week' residency facilitated by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.
    • http://pica.org/events/TBA19AdelaDemetjaDanteBuuNEXUS1

    parts of another from the hands of today

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    What’s Left From My Heart

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 25-10-2019 t/m 24-11-2019
    • In samenwerking met: Ileana Faur, Skånes konstförening
    • Locatie: Skånes konstförening, Malmö
    • Residency and exhibition at Skånes konstförening in Malmö. I produced a constellation of works in different mediums: ceramics, watercolors, video, sound and etchings. The work departed from embracing a state of not-knowing, caused by grief and the loss of a close person. In the making, this state can be understood as an active distancing from existing hierarchies of knowledge that prioritize rational approaches.
    • http://skaneskonst.se/en/whats-left-from-my-heart/

    handle to door, half-bittersweet

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-09-2018 t/m 21-09-2018
    • In samenwerking met: Daniel Fogarty, European Cultural Foundation
    • Locatie: Yellow Brick, Athens
    • Residency, exhibition and performance in collaboration with Daniel Fogarty. Our research was focused on the ocean liner, a form of transportation that has delivered many tangible and untenable concepts; from fashion to war, weapons to dances, migration to tourism. The resulting exhibition experimented with the liner's complex history, trying to make it more than a historical backdrop. The show consisted of an installation of movable artworks that also acted as a set for the performance.
    • https://www.yellowbrick.gr/STEP-14-handle-to-door-half-bittersweet

    BODY SHIFT ERGO DRIFT

    Performance

    • 29-06-2018 t/m 29-06-2018
    • Locatie: UBIK Theatre, WORM , Rotterdam
    • BODY SHIFT ERGO DRIFT is a performance that follows the logic of fragmentation, embracing a stage time that is neither linear nor narrative. The performance is the result of a mixed interest in social choreographies, the symptoms of neoliberal capitalism, shopping, disco music, industrial rhythm, effort and rest, care and self-care. The work reflects on labor and leisure, living patterns and the movement of bodies in space, from which it generates fluid and rigid rhythms and structures. the sta
    • https://vimeo.com/282094294

    To Cast A Shadow

    Performance

    • 01-09-2017 t/m 01-09-2017
    • Locatie: Art Encounters Binnial, Timișoara
    • Raluca Croitoru introduces a site-specific performance that strikes up a dialogue with the history of Urseni Water Manufacturing in Timișoara, dating from the beginning of the last century. Using the shadow and the sonority as binding agents between the past and present, the body and space, the individual and collective, the artist searches to draw closer to the multiple histories that coexist and symbolically “contaminate” the bodies of buildings and bodies of the actors .
    • https://artencounters.ro/en/raluca-croitoru-2/

    Psychosculptural Aesthetics

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 25-11-2017 t/m 25-11-2017
    • Locatie: Gallery Rianne Groen, Rotterdam
    • Raluca Croitoru presented her Institute for Receipt Research and Experimentation, through a performance and a short film. Alternating between representation and abstraction, the experimental short film, entitled The Virtual Tour of the IIRRE (2016), follows a narrative at the border between fact and fiction. Through its structure, use of gestures and the presence of the voice, the film tackles concepts such as history-making, immateriality and interactivity in the digital world.
    • https://vimeo.com/178707094

    Suite for the Office

    Performance

    • 26-02-2017 t/m 26-02-2017
    • In samenwerking met: Art Encounters Foundation
    • Locatie: Office Building, Timisoara
    • Suite for the Office was performed and filmed at the end of a two months' residency at the Art Encounters Foundation in Timisoara. The artwork is site-specific and the choreography unfolds in the transit and waiting spaces of an office building. The architecture of the office building plays an essential role in defining and structuring the choreographic elements.
    • https://vimeo.com/225661445

    Erkenningen

      Stipendium

    • CEC ArtsLink Fellowship, USA

    • 2018
      Stipendium

    • O and O grant, CBK Rotterdam

    • 2018
      Stipendium

    • PPR Scheme, CBK Rotterdam

    • 2020
      Stipendium

    • Corona-overbrugging kunstenaar, Mondriaan Fonds

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • Droom en Daad

    • 2020
      Stipendium

      Prijs

    • Courageous Citizens Award by European Cultural Fundation for PALIER.RO project

    • 2018
      Prijs

    • Honourable Mention, InnerSound Festival #4: Touch

    • 2016
      Prijs

    • Selected Artist for Open Access - European Project on Transmedia

    • 2019
      Prijs

    • Nominee for Juan Downey video competition, 13 Biennial of Media Arts, Chile

    • 2017
      Collectie

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      Publicatie

    • Neutral Buoyancy

    • 2020
    • experimental publication
    • Miss No Socks -
      Publicatie

    • Verdure Engraved

    • 2020
    • digital zine and audio album
    • Jez Riley French - Jez Riley French
      Publicatie

    • Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, VOL. 6

    • 2017
    • yearly publication
    • Ugly Duckling Press - Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary, Katie Gaydos
      Publicatie

    • Revista ARTA#46-47 Romanian Artists from the Diaspora

    • 2020
    • magazine spread
    • Impressum - Arta Magazine
      Publicatie

    • Review of the exhibition SEEN – Nucleu 0008

    • 2022
    • exhibition and performance review
    • Impressum - Arta Magazine
      Publicatie

    • PPR

    • 2022
    • publication/catalogue
    • - CBK Rotterdam
      Publicatie

    • Open Access. An Introduction to Transmedia

    • 2021
    • book
    • Editura Tact - Mariana Brandāo, Iulia Popovici
      Publicatie

    • Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling

    • 2018
    • book/catalogue
    • - CBK Rotterdam
      Publicatie

    • Art Monthly 411: November edition, review of performance To Cast a Shadow and Art Encounters Biennial

    • 2017
    • performance review
    • - Art Monthly