“I made jam in Barcelona from the strawberries picked by our ‘căpşunari’”[1] Interview with Matei Bejenaru The representations of labor and the image of the worker – ignored in post-socialist art – constitute the main research topics chosen by visual artist Matei Bejenaru. In his photographs, installations and performance projects, the artist analyzes the transformations of the contexts of labor in Romania and abroad. Construction sites, factories and strawberry fields are just some of the spaces which define work and power relations within the social art put forward by Matei Bejenaru. In the interview conducted by Mihaela Michailov, Bejenaru emphasizes…
“We had no solidarity between intellectuals and blue collar workers, neither before nor after 1989.”
An interview with Radu Aldulescu One of the most important contemporary Romanian writers of prose, Radu Aldulescu (born on June 29, 1954, in Bucharest) made his debut in 1993, at the Albatros publishing house, with the novel Sonata pentru acordeon (The Accordion Sonata), for which he received the Romanian Writers’ Union Award. Since, he has published the novels Amantul Colivăresei (The Funeral Cake Maker’s Lover), Îngerul încălecat (The Mounted Angel), Istoria eroilor unui ţinut de verdeaţă şi răcoare (The Story of the Heroes in a Land of Green and Chill), Proorocii Ierusalimului (The Prophets of Jerusalem), Mirii nemuririi (Immortality’s Bridegrooms), Ana-Maria şi…
The documentary theatre performance Clear History, directed by Nicoleta Esinencu , starring Veaceslav Sambriş, Doriana Talmazan, Irina Vacarciuc and produced by Teatru-Spălătorie (Theatre-Washroom) brings into the public sphere a theme willfully ignored both by the authorities and the media from the Republic of Moldova, namely the contribution of the Romanian administration and army to the ghettoization, deportation and extermination of the Jewish population from Bessarabia, Bukovina, Trans-dniestr (Priednistrovia) and Odessa during 1941-1944, when these territories were under Romanian administration or occupation. The current coalition government in the Republic of Moldova has adopted a radical pro-Romanian, pro-Western stance as its pseudo-political…
Faisal Abu Al-Heja is a 23 year-old actor and political activist. He was born in the refugee camp in Jenin, Palestine. He graduated from the Acting School of the Freedom Theatre and took part in most of the projects of the theatre in recent years: Animal Farm (Ferma Animalelor), Sho Kman? (What else?), Playback Theatre, Freedom Bus etc. Freedom Theatre defines itself as “a community theatre and cultural centre in the refugee camp in Jenin, Occupied Palestine.” Starting from the belief that arts can play an essential role in the construction of a free and healthy society, Freedom Theatre offers…
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