Action art in Romania
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Artist and Performance Art Groups
Artists
Groups
Artists and Groups not researched yet
- Plastic Art Performance Collective
- Anca Benera
- Geta Brătescu
- Caminul Cultural
- Claudiu Cobilanschi
- Larisa David
- Ramona Dima
- Simona Dumitriu
- Paul Dunca
- Arnold Estefan
- Farid Fairuz
- Ileana Faur
- Florin Flueraş
- Sfântu Gheorghe
- Marcel Janco
- Mihai Mihalcea
- Ioana Paun
- Dan Perjovschi
- Alexandra Pirici
- Alina Popa
- Veda Popovici
- Alexandru Solomon
- Alina Tofan
- Tristan Tzara
- Ion Vinea
Literature and resources
- ETNA Foundation – The goal of the ETNA Foundation is to support alternative art, facilitate personal contact among artists in the country and abroad; in a larger sense, to contribute to the shaping of a social environment which favours the development of experimental arts.
Books
- Ileana Pintilie, Actionismul in Romania în timpul comunismului, Cluj: Idea, 1999. (Romanian)
- Actionism in Romania During the Communist Era, trans. Silviu Pepelea, Cluj: Idea Design & Print, 2002, 165 pp. (English)
Essays
- Julia Popovici, Raluca Voinea, METAPHOR. PROTEST. CONCEPT. Performance Art from Romania and Moldova
- Perlman, Hili; The Conjurer: How Romanian Dancer Alexandra Pirici Became Performance Art’s Newest Rising Star
- Oana Sanziana Marian, performance art and politics in Romania
- Marina Oprea, Let’s talk performance art
- Ileana Pintilie, “Performance Art In Romania. Between gesture and ritual”, in Crossroads in Central-Europe. Ideas, Themes, Methods and Problems of Contemporary Art and Art Criticism, ed. Katalin Keserü, Budapest: Egregia, 1996, p 147. (English)
- Ileana Pintilie, “The Dilemmas of Artistic Transition in Post-Communism. Performance art in Romania at the Beginning of the ’90s”, in Zone 3 Catalogues, Timişoara, 2000; repr. in Periferic 4, Iaşi, 2000.
- Ileana Pintilie, “Actionism in Romania in the 6th and 7th Decades”, Balkon 2, Cluj, 2000. (English)
- Ileana Pintilie, “Actionism in Romania in the 8th Decade”, Balkon 3, Cluj, 2000. (English)
- Ileana Pintilie, “Performance art in Romania in the ’90s (Rumunska umetnost performanse devedesetih)”, Artcontext, Apr 2001; repr. in Vrsac 1.
- Ileana Pintilie, “Action Art in Romania Before and After 1989”, Centropa 14:1, Jan 2014. (English)
- Luana Pleşea, Bharest’s Museum of Contemporary Art runs performing arts programme
- Julia Popovici, Raluca Voinea, METAPHOR. PROTEST. CONCEPT. Performance Art from Romania and Mol
- Preda, Catarina, ‘The Aesthetic Surveillance of Performance Art by the Romanian Securitate in the 1970s and 1980s’
