"Brancusi's studio in the 1920s, a space not just for sculpture but for communion: here Erik Satie playing a few anarchic notes on a small harmonium, there Lizica Codreanu floating in a long sculptural dress performing an improvised dance around Bird in Space or Endless Column, Tristan Tzara shouting cut-up poetry and Duchamp quietly observing with a sly smile. I cannot think of an artwork without its reception, the experiences it generates."
"Which cultural experience changed the way you see the world? My sensibility was forged in the wings of Teatrul Giulesti in Bucharest, where my mother was an actress, and the theatre a second home. So, I'd say Robert Wilson's collaboration with Philip Glass for Einstein on the Beach (1976), a hypnotic, durational ritual that redefined what opera-and performance itself-could be."
"Which writer do you return to most? Most recently Ocean Vuong. I love his vulnerability, the tenderness and toughness of his writings, the way he conveys the experience of immigration as embodied, linked with fragmented memory. What are you listening to? Progressive rock, such as Pink Floyd. I also love any compilation of acid jazz, and fusion-style music, especially Afro-Caribbean."
Brancusi's 1920s studio functioned as a communal space where musicians, performers, poets and fellow artists animated sculptures and where reception became part of the work's meaning. A childhood shaped in the wings of Teatrul Giulesti fostered a sensibility attuned to theatrical ritual, exemplified later by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach, which redefined opera through durational, hypnotic performance. Ocean Vuong's writing models vulnerability and the embodied experience of immigration linked to fragmented memory. Listening preferences include progressive rock like Pink Floyd, acid jazz compilations and Afro-Caribbean fusion. Film recommendations include Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and Chantal Akerman retrospectives. Art serves as inquiry into what it means to be human, disrupting certainty and opening collective consciousness.
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