Senior lecturer
I started as a musician, then I began to dance, at the university I studied linguistics, in the 80s, being unemployed, I had been wandering through the country as a freelance ethnographer, and what I liked the most at the change of the regime from 89, was making videos. All these fields have remained incorporated in me, and they reappear and mix with each other in my educational, research and art activities. In 1995 I won the III. price of the “Internationaler Videokunstpreis” in Karlsruhe with my experimental video, “An Abstract Knowledge”, which deals with the tappings made by the “securitate“. My courses on visual communication and documentary are between my favorites ones even today. My first loves, dance and a rite, called “borica“, have followed me all my life. A wrote my doctoral dessertation on the rite “borica“, which was published in 2009. My theoretical preoccupations are directed mostly towards the analogies existing between dance and language. I am looking for possible answers to questions like: what would be the nonverbal meaning of dance, which kind of dances can be analysed ont he base of linguistic models, and how far these analogies go. My social and political sensitivities are manifested mainly in works like the book entitled ”Ilonka néni”, the threelingual life history of an elderly Roma woman, or in those studies and courses of mine, which focus on the social inequalities reinforced by the representations of the powerful, or on the marginalization of gender and ethnic minorities, and finally in my”Securitate-blog”, in which I have published and interpreted the files of my father and of mine, from the archives of the former secret police. My artistic needs have been basically fulfilled by the independent cultural center called Tranzit House, which I founded in 1997.