We are pleased to introduce the IAB scientist for the third Lab held at the University of Arts of Târgu Mureș (9-18 December 2019), within the “Make a Move” Project, co-funded by Creative Europe Project: Dr. Adina Mocanu.
Adina Mocanu is Postdoc fellow in the fields of cultural studies at Adhuc-Research Center for Theory, Gender, Sexuality, University of Barcelona. After a BA at the University of Craiova and two MAs: one at the University of Craiova in Comparative Literature and another one in Cultural Studies at the University of Barcelona, where she also achieved her Phd in Cultural Studies. She is also a member of the Center for the Study of Modernity and the Rural World and the Institute for the Social Solidarity in Romania. Adina is also editor of the cultural magazine “Prăvălia culturală”.
About the Lab, the Make a Move Art Incubator held in Târgu Mureș will focus on positioning non-institutionalised there practices in a critical journalistic and business context.
Specifically, this Art Incubator Session is dedicated to the topics of communication, business and fundraising skills. Many times artists find it difficult to talk about their work, which sometimes results in interviews or performance presentations filled with platitudes. Considering this, it may be difficult for independent theatre-makers or collectives to promote their artistic work, to gain finances and further to market the performance for the audiences.Therefore the Art Incubator session is dedicated to presenting a multi-perspective approach to talking about the artistic product, considering ways of ‘translating’ the artistic universe into words, using some tools from the area of theatre criticism, journalism or aesthetics.
The Make a Move project is an innovative Art Incubator program, designed particularly for non-institutionalised theatre practitioners and small independent cultural operators primarily from the field of contemporary movement-based theatre. The first group will consist of 10 full-time participants and 30 auditing participants from at least 5 European countries who will have the opportunity to develop their artistic and professional skills and grow their production proposals through co-creation processes in collaboration with the international group of artists. The initiator and leader of the project is an arts organisation Creative Laboratory of Contemporary Theatre KRILA from Rijeka. The main partners of the project are the Galway Theater Festival (Ireland), the Institute of Arts Barcelona (Spain), the University of Arts Târgu Mureș (Romania). The associate partners are ACTS (Oslo, Norway), MOVEO (Barcelona, Spain) Platform 88 (Montpellier, France), Poulpe Electrique (Arcueil, France), ToTum TeaTre (Barcelona, Spain) and Workinglifebalance Ltd. (Graz, Austria).
Make a Move is co-funded by the EU Creative Europe Programme.
For more information, please check the website.
