{"id":564,"date":"2013-05-12T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T21:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/?p=564"},"modified":"2016-09-26T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:06:39","slug":"noul-aur-forthewin-vineri-17-mai-ora-21-00-galeria26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/2013\/05\/12\/noul-aur-forthewin-vineri-17-mai-ora-21-00-galeria26\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Review by Ionu\u021b Sociu<\/strong><\/p>\n

ForTheWin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Performance by Bogdan Georgescu, with Andreea E\u0219anu, Andrei Ioni\u021b\u0103, S\u00e2nziana Nicola<\/strong><\/p>\n

Corporation v. community<\/strong><\/p>\n

ACTIVE ART<\/strong><\/p>\n

Galeria 26 (OTA), Bucharest<\/strong><\/p>\n

In ForTheWin<\/b>, there is a lot of talking about death (a ski accident, a case of suicide due to debt, a case of overworking), but the manner of speaking is detached and bland, lacking in voice variations. Here, death seems to be just another piece of information among others, and one of the merits of this performance is that it captures a type of homogenous communication in which banal observations are in the same league with more serious issues.<\/p>\n

Continuously connected to her handsfree<\/i> device, Raluca[1]<\/a> (S\u00e2nziana Nicola) ceases to communicate in full sentences. Since she no longer makes any distinction between her personal life and her professional one, her discourse no longer reflects any emotional translation from one register to another.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s surprising about ForTheWin<\/b> is the slow pace of events and the subtle way in which it dismantles the stereotype of the corporation as a space of hyperactivity, as it is often perceived from the outside.<\/p>\n

ForTheWin<\/b> is, above anything else, a performance about fear and about the way in which workaholism ends up augmenting this fear. The fear of hoping you could do something else, the fear of talking about your personal issues: when talking about her employees, Andreea ((Andreea E\u0219anu) says she respects and admires them \u201cfor minding their own business and for keeping their fears to themselves;\u201d the fear of not being seen as a team-player<\/i> and the fear of taking a break. A break is \u201crisky\u201d because it implies confronting the present, while in a corporation everything is projected towards the future. \u201cFor the coming future, for the growth, for development,<\/i>\u201d says Raluca. \u201cBut what happens to now?,\u201d she asks herself in the end. That \u201cnow\u201d which gives you the chance to get a blood test (\u201ca blood sugar test takes one minute and fourteen seconds\u201d) and to communicate with those around you.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Her story in ForTheWin<\/b> is inspired by that of Raluca Stroescu, the young woman who was working as an audit manager for Ernst & Young and died of exhaustion in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Review by Ionu\u021b Sociu ForTheWin Performance by Bogdan Georgescu, with Andreea E\u0219anu, Andrei Ioni\u021b\u0103, S\u00e2nziana Nicola Corporation v. community ACTIVE ART Galeria 26 (OTA), Bucharest In ForTheWin, there is a lot of talking about death (a ski accident, a case of suicide due to debt, a case of overworking), but the manner of speaking is detached and bland, lacking in voice variations. Here, death seems to be just another piece of information among others, and one of the merits of this performance is that it captures a type of homogenous communication in which banal observations are in the same league…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artapolitica.ro\/gazetapolitica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}