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CHANTAL BY US

With Paula Dunker, Nicoleta Lefter, Mihaela Michailov, Katia Pascariu, Laura Săvuțiu, Vlaicu Golcea & Mircea Suciu, with a performance by Nicoleta Lefter, Katia Pascariu & Vlaicu Golcea
Curated by Alex Radu
As part of the exhibition "Chantal by us" (12.11.24 - 25.01.25) at /SAC Berthelot (Berthelot no. 5, doorbell 10) the performance "Mama râde" by Nicoleta Lefter x Katia Pascariu x Vlaicu Golcea will take place on Thursday, November 14th, at 8PM and 9PM. Free entry. Please book a place through the following link: https://forms.gle/XJwvmuVF4j3X6y3y5 "The idea for the performance came to me after reading Chantal Akerman's “My Mother Laughs”. I picked out moments of significant vulnerability, the things that you never talk about and nobody prepares you for, but which we all go through or will go through one day. The performance is about the disappearance of a loved one, about mourning, about death. We enter an uncensored intimacy of a woman who will go through the death of her mother, without pitying ourselves or becoming melodramatic, instead placing an emotion under the microscope, expanding it over the course of 45 minutes, only for it to afterwards get lost throughout the noise of Calea Victoriei." (Nicoleta Lefter)

Tell us about /SAC.

/SAC Bucharest is a private non-profit initiative positioned as an alternative organism to the organisational trade system and to the public institutional system, with the aim of participating in the (re)contextualisation and the historical update of contemporary independent productions through a set of resources and effective strategies for establishing an unaltered dialogue between the producer and the audience. /SAC works as a transdisciplinary interface of artistic and curatorial collaboration which connects disciplines and services with the purpose of organising the artistic discourse and production, in two different spaces. /SAC @ Berthelot 5 is a context-space of organisation, production, and dissemination in order to establish an authentic relationship with an enganged and informed audience.

What do you have upcoming?

CHANTAL BY US Chantal Akerman - interdisciplinary biographies in a theatre of care with/by Paula Dunker, Nicoleta Lefter, Mihaela Michailov, Katia Pascariu, Laura Săvuțiu, Vlaicu Golcea in collaboration with Ema Onofrei, Laurence Ermacova and Monica Stoica, Alex Radu and with works by Mircea Suciu "Chantal by us", Chantal Akerman and her My Mother Laughs. Interdisciplinary biographies in a theatre of care. A series of performances, video-sound installations and images-objects in the space of /SAC Berthelot, starting November 12. So many rooms as many situations, so many walls as many instances. They tell stories about transgenerational trauma, ageing and vulnerability, the work of caretaking, the tense relationship between art, real space/intimate space/ socio-political space and work – all entering in a dialogue with the vast and unique work of an emblematic artist of the sec. XX, about the way this work is perceived today and resonates with the local and intimate-personal realities of the artists and performers involved. Theatrical exploration, interdisciplinary research laboratory, hybrid attempts to react to art through art, talking about life and death. "Chantal by us" is thus a de/re-structured and dis/re-composed experimental-exploratory theatre project in an exhibition (gallery) space, presenting performances - by/with Paula Dunker, Katia Pascariu and Nicoleta Lefter -, audio and video installations - by Vlaicu Golcea and Laura Savuțiu -, performative video works - by/with Paula Dunker, Katia Pascariu, Mihaela Michailov and Laura Savuțiu -, with a radical, dramatic counterpoint in visual linguistics (and stylistics) realised through the works of Mircea Suciu which intertwine with/ continue/ prolong/ verticalize the themes of the performative works in "Chantal by Us". His works comment (even through their titles) and operate in a similar way with the reopening/ reinterpretation/ recontextualization of major/historical visual-cultural landmarks (temporalities) in the present, in the personal/ artistic life, in the now of the works and their presentation (as co-present temporealities) at /SAC (Berthelot).