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Installing "Critique on how temples move faster than their shadows" at Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles

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When I have been working in residence at EIRA33 and ZDB - Ze Dos Bois Lisbon, this year for the creation of "When love melted cavalries in our hearts" which was supported by ColectivA - Cluj and Miki Braniste, I've produces a work that stood still like a split second in incomplete stunt, drawing on a neo-romantic paradigm where the experience does not happen while reading the work, its not about what happens on the paper, rather walking away from it.

I've been priviledged to access the best equipment, progressive eloquent designed props and Hollywood studio lights for this unique theory immersed performance - "Critique on how temples move faster than their shadows", hosted by the splendid Mihai Nicodim Gallery - L.A. to give a complete new perspective of this fabulous engagement.

Today I will perform on the humanity of a terrible love; a shared architecture, muscled by words and rude liberty, about ‘fixing of the body’ over the exterior milieu, with the heart poised above the gut, a constructed metaphor for the staticism of love, that sometimes you just have to tell the whole world about it.




SENSE & SENSIBILITY at Optica Festival in Gijón with 'Tears are Precious' by Alex Mirutziu

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My film “Tears are precious” was screened in a program titled SENSE & SENSIBILITY at the Optica Festival in Gijón, this year.

The festival ran from October 21-23 at the Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto.
Un Ciclo Especial donde cuerpo, ser y sentimiento son medios de expresión artística.

October 21, 18.30
Nicholas Jenkins «New York Story» (EE.UU.)
Jean-Gabriel Périot «Gay ?» (Francia)
Florencia P. Marano «Binder» (España)
María Pérez Gil «Felación» (España)
Veronika Marquez «Santoral del Sábado» (Uruguay)
Anders Weberg «Undisclosed beauty» (Suecia)
Cecilia Molano «Desapariciones» (España)
Garbi KW «Voilà!» (España)
Alex Mirutziu «Tears are precious» (Rumanía)
Paul Sixta «Body image» (Holanda)

www.opticafestival.com

Alex Mirutziu in NY Arts Magazine

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Controversial Customs
Summer 2010 - Romania
Daria D. Pervain and Marcel Janco


First and foremost I treat my body as a vessel, as a medium, and then as a space of resistance. I used to name it revolution-wise instrument embedded with political meaning and transversal power, transversal meaning any force physical or ideological, friendly or antagonistic that inspires emotional, conceptual and/or material deviations from the established norms.

In this respect I consider a dense and risky business to take my own body as the main place of confrontation and communication with my own memory and suffering and most of all to articulate this in a conceptual way and so forth.

In my recent work, I try to operate within notions that emerge and coagulate in the mind and perform beyond the spectator’s understanding. Queer entails these sub-notions that cause the possibility for art to explode outward and more than before my work furthers these into language.—Alex Mirutziu

Alex Mirutziu is a Romanian artist whose work cuts across multiple domains, including conceptual writing, performance, photography, and video installations. His work endows social processes with ephemeral emergence as the man constructs in an attempt to reconfigure the relation between information and form, psychophysical language and content, challenging origins and meaning. After the disturbing solo performance, Atrocity Exhibition, in 2004, he continued his research at the University of Fine Arts in Cuenca, Spain, where his performative approach resulted in the censorship of one of his projects, which provoked strong reactions among artists and scholars in both Spain and Romania. Starting in 2004, the investigation of the real began when a new anatomical specimen emerged, Lick&Destroy, a corrupt and ambiguous approach to identity, with which Mirutziu produced himself distinctively in discontinuous, contradictory realities. In 2007, the English director, John Britton, formed an experimental master class with eight heterogeneous performers, one of which was Alex Mirutziu. Shortly after the physically intensive training, he toured England with his social-comment performance, Leave Gordon Brown Alone, produced in Liverpool, Leeds, and Berlin. He received international recognition in Madrid and Paris at Optica Video Art Festival, and was awarded Best Independent Artist. He frequently works with Grit Hachmeister, VIP group, Arandjel Bojanovic, Liviana Dan, and Noa Treister. Following his Manifest of Flaw show at Sabot in October, Alex Mirutziu presented a solo project at Rüdiger Schöttle in Munich.



Photo: 
Alex Mirutziu, Runway spill #1, 2009. HD video 02.19
min transferred on video DVD, screened on
81.5 x 61.5 x 6.5 cm LCD screen. Courtesy of the artist
and Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery.

Alex Mirutziu in DISPLAYING/DISPLACED by Roma - The Road to Contemporary Art

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Alex Mirutziu's video "Runway Spill #1", will be screened in DISPLAYING/DISPLACED section of Roma - The Road to Contemporary Art: you can find direct info here:

► www.romacontemporary.it/it/03539/page.html

Alex will present his extraordinary performance after traumatic accident on May 25, 2010 at The Romanian Academy in Rome, wearing George Rusalin, Smaranda Almasan, Alex Nicolae, and shoes by Dana Iuga.

► www.accadromania.it/home.html
► www.info.roma.it/evento_newsletter.asp?eventi=18182
► www.romacontemporary.it/it/03539/page.html

Temps d'images - cercetare video și dans / performance

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Atelierul imaginilor #9. Temps d'images - cercetare video si dans/performance

Primul sezon din cadrul “Atelierului imaginilor” v-a propus intalnirea cu tineri artisti si piesele lor recente, pentru ca al doilea sa ofere o privire retrospectiva asupra artei video din anii ’70. De această data, in lunile mai – iunie – iulie, Oana Tanase va asteapta la Institutul Francez din Bucuresti sa descoperiti ateliere de cercetare, laboratoare de creatie si platforme de comunicare interdisciplinara.Pentru "Atelierul" de luni, 17 mai, invitata este Miki Braniste. Subiectul: Temps d'images.

Temp d’images este un festival european de teatru, dans si imagine video, desfăsurat in Romania prin Asociatia ArtLink / Colectiv A si ajuns in 2010 la cea de-a treia editie. Intalnirea oferă o radiografie a primelor două manifestări (Bucuresti, 2008; Cluj, 2009) si oportunitatea de a comunica celor interesati productiile artistice favorizate de acest festival, misiunea lui si etapele viitoare. Vor fi proiectate fragmente din prezentarile finale ale laboratoarelor de cercetare video si dans/performance realizate anul trecut in binom de Ciprian Muresan si Madalina Dan, respectiv Alex Mirutziu si Alexandra Pirici. (Oana Tanase)

Institutul Francez din Bucuresti
Bd. Dacia, nr. 77

contact: oana@spic.ro
0721 433 224