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 @ Malmaison is a context-space of co-productions, research, collaborative, and transdisciplinary practices in the visual, performing, and scenic arts.
What do you have upcoming?
CHANTAL BY US. Chantal Akerman - interdisciplinary biographies in a theatre of care by/with - 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-as- objects in the space of /SAC Berthelot. As many rooms as situations, as many walls as instances. They tell stories about transgenerational trauma, ageing and vulnerability, 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 body of work of an emblematic artist of the XX century. The artistic results talk about the way Chantal Akerman 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, while talking about life and death. „Chantal by us” is 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 Săvuțiu -, performative video works - by/with Paula Dunker, Katia Pascariu, Mihaela Michailov and Laura Săvuțiu -, with a radical, dramatic counterpoint in visual linguistics (and stylistics) 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).
