Asphyxia – videoperformance Asphyxia is a videoperformance born from the attempt to experience through body and senses the inner, hidden world of plastics. It challanges us to breathe at the same pace with a slowly suffocating planet. An urban corner turns into a confessional space. We look for shapes generated by the chameleonic plastic and we try to breathe with it, through it. How does plastic breathe? Plastic did not choose to appear among us, just as none of us choose to be born in a form that society rejects or accepts. The \’all-guilty\’ plastic reminds us of the things we want to forget or discard – consequences, responsibility. We project onto it all our ‘garbage’ (physical, moral, social) gathered over the years. Plastic exposes our collective vulnerabilities. Through this corporeal-visual experiment, we draw attention upon the effects of plastic waste and irresponsible consumerism, on humans and nature. Credits: Concept: Alina Tofan, Alexandru Claudiu Maxim, Georgiana Vlahbei Performer: Alina Tofan Video: Alexandru Claudiu Maxim Sound-design: Teo Rădulescu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkB_7dc7J1I&t=34s ASPHYXIA – TEASER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWBQgzZ6das
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BIOS TEAM Alina Tofan (RO) is a multidisciplinary artist, member of the Time Based Arts group within Arts University Bucharest. Her area of practice explores unique ways of communicating with all the senses. Her goal is to express as many feelings as possible through the body. Georgiana Vlahbei (RO) has been engaged in visual documentation in ethnographic/cultural anthropology research for the past 10 years. Her photography journey began in 2014. In 2020, she had her first exhibition of conceptual photography. Alexandru Claudiu Maxim (RO) is a video artist from the new Romanian wave, interested in inter-disciplinarity. He works both as a visual artist and as a performer, regularly participating in exhibitions. Teo Rădulescu (RO) is an architect passionate about the relationship between sound and space. For him, sound determines the rhythm of the city life, influences emotions and thoughts. He questions through his art the missing sounds of a space.