4 December, 18:00 — 5 December, 18:00 · 24-hour performance
5 December, 20:00 · conversation with the audience
Indecis artist run, Bastion 3, Timișoara
/an attempt to theorise the practice of thinking — or, more simply, how ideas take shape and then sink, either on their own or with a little push/
PART I: The Artist at Play with Ideas. A Sea of Possible Ideas.
4 December, 18:00 — 5 December, 18:00
/a solitary performance, open to the public at any time, but without interaction with the “thinking artist”/
PART II: IDEAS THAT SURVIVED THE STORM
5 December, 20:00
/a conversation with the audience about the journey across the sea of ideas, acts of survival and abandonment, and the ideas that eventually made it to the other shore/
/a practical attempt to theorise the practice of creative thinking — or, more simply: how ideas take shape, catch fire, sink on their own or get pushed overboard/
I warmly greet You! My name is Christine Cizmaș, I was born in Timisoara, April 22, 1978 and in my 48 years of life spent in this city, I realize that I went through a short period of dictatorship, I participated in a Revolution, I exercised my right to vote, I protested countless times, in short, I transited and am still transiting different forms of government and social life, I loved, I still love, I dance, I destroyed, I built, I learned analogically, then transferred to the digital era, and now I was very close to requesting AI to do my BIO. Did I do it? Does it matter …
I am raised and educated in a multi-ethnic spirit and I am a witness to my own insecurities and searches in art, be it underground, independent, unskilled or academic.
I could present myself as an actress in the independent sector and I was for 20 years, I also had many private initiatives, but sometimes scripts and texts which I have learned word for word, for some time now, do not give me enough space for artistic exploration, that’s why I look everywhere and especially in people, for an essence. I try not to run away, I like to have a hard time while working, I think my generation was brought up this way, the hard way. My imaginary world is fantastic, I like it there, but I also like it when I manage to bring a piece of it into reality.
Achievements? What qualifies me? Nothing and everything. It’s very subjective. Many roles, too many, a lot of theater, still a lot of dreaming and desire to explore. What is there to do with life, then to search and not to find, not to know and still enjoy the journey and find happiness.
David Bowie, my best friend.
A SEA OF IDEAS is part of the mediation programme accompanying the exhibition TIRED MASS. The programme begins with three forms of labour that almost all of us perform, even if we do not always recognise them as such: physical, intellectual and emotional labour.