TEMPS D'IMAGES 2010
3rd edition, 11-20 October Cluj-Napoca
What happens with the contemporary dance and theater in the era of image? How does visual artists refer themselves to the growing penetration of the shot image in the performing arts? The TEMPS D'IMAGES Festival is the meeting place of these questions. Wishing to accompany the young contemporary creation in contemporary dance, theater and visual arts and focus on the intelligent mix between them, ARTE French channel initiated the festival with La Ferme du Buisson National Scene in 2002, subsequently developing the project at European level.
After two successful editions in Romania, the festival was set in definitely in Cluj where it was greeted by you, a inquisitive public eager to know new forms of contemporary art. The Romanian festival organizer, Colectiv A Association shared with the Cluj public new contemporary dance creations and innovative theater forms in which the moving image becomes more than background or accessory. The image has imposed an important "role" in the festival's invited performances, it becomes a character, it documents other reality, it introduces a new dimension, creating new emotions, it opens new perspectives, showing us our weaknesses or enhancing our creativity. For the third edition of the TEMPS D'IMAGES Festival, Colectiv A invited audacious artists, who were trying to resist the power of image and knew how to turn it into an ally that can complete their creation.
The festival featured three world premieres: "Solo tu" by Vava Ştefănescu, "Post.Sync" - GroundFloor Association from Cluj and "Endurance" - A.lter S.essio Company from France. Wanting to keep aware the public of what's new in video art, 2010 festival's program has diversified, and we designed a special environment for video art and experimental film. We invited you to discover young video artists from Romania and Europe, to attend the meeting "Focus on Artist" with Mitoş Micleuşanu - film director - (from Moldova Planet) or to watch short films from "ShortsUP!".
The theater and performance enthusiasts discovered artists from abroad (Santa Sangre company, Italy) and new names in Cluj, as David Schwartz, Ion Dumitrescu & Florin Flueraş. The experiment and the artistic interdisciplinary research were the festival's core and István Albu, Julia Barsony (Hungary), Alex Mirutziu (Romania) and Emanuella Serra together with Emmanuelle Braga (Italy) brought us in their creation laboratory. Speaking of the desire to share, we proposed to celebrate this year's meeting on the rhythm of Discoballs.
Miki Branişte
On the behalf of Colectiv A team