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4Culture Association is delighted to announce Romania’s participation in the Baltic Nordic Fringe Festival (BNFN) network. This network aims to provide touring opportunities for artists applying to one or more Fringe festivals in the Baltic-Nordic region.
BNFN is the only touring network of its kind in the region and is part of the World Fringe Network (WFN), which includes over 300 Fringe festivals worldwide.
As a result, 4Culture Association has been nominated to participate in two major festivals within the Baltic Nordic Fringe Network: the Gothenburg Fringe Festival 2024 and the Stockholm Fringe Festival 2024, with the performance “Intimate Choreographies.”
Stockholm Fringe Festival:
Dates: August 27 & August 29, 2024
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Stadsmuseet Stockholm
Gothenburg Fringe Festival:
Dates: 31 august & 1 septembrie 2024
Time: 3 PM
Location: Olof Palmes Plats
Stockholm Fringe Festival
The Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF) is a seven-day multidisciplinary arts festival that provides a vibrant platform for both local and international artists. The festival celebrates innovation and creativity, showcasing a diverse range of works, from captivating performances to impressive art installations. Each year, the festival attracts approximately 2-3 million participants, similar to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Adelaide Fringe.
Gothenburg Fringe Festival
The Gothenburg Fringe Festival was born out of the need to create a platform that offers artists new opportunities for presentation, development, and collaboration. Since its inception in 2016, Gothenburg Fringe has grown into a community of artists and performing arts enthusiasts, hosting 150 events featuring artists from 20 countries worldwide. This has helped shape and develop the festival into an international showcase network, making it a highly anticipated event for the residents of Gothenburg.
Intimate Choreographies
“Intimate Choreographies” achieved remarkable success in 2023, being showcased at the international performance and performing arts festival, Magdalena Festival, in Montpellier, France, with support from the Romanian Cultural Institute through the Cantemir 2023 program.
The concept and artistic direction of the performance were created by Andreea Căpitănescu, a choreographer and cultural manager. The performative installation explores the idea that a surveillance space can generate emotional intimacy through collective choreographic interventions. Once integrated into the installation, this intimacy undermines the detached and uneven power structure of technology. The audience is guided towards collective choreographic actions, incorporating moments of individual reflection through poetic fragments written and recited by the artistic team. The choreographic and dramaturgical construction involves an individual audio system (headphones and silent disco receiver) accessible to each participant. Andreea Căpitănescu, coregrafă și manager cultural. Instalația performativă explorează ideea că spațiul de supraveghere poate genera, prin intervenții coregrafice colective, intimitate emoțională. Aceasta, odată transpusă în cadrul instalației, subminează structura de putere detașată și neuniformă a tehnologiei. Publicul va fi ghidat către acțiuni coregrafice colective, integrând momente de reflecție individuală prin fragmente poetice redactate și recitate de echipa artistică. Construcția coregrafică și dramaturgică presupune un sistem audio individual (căști și receiver silent disco) la care fiecare participant va avea acces.
The aim of this performative intervention is to explore intimacy in a public space, against a backdrop of audio fragments that speak about collective resilience and solidarity in the face of oppressive structures, appealing to our connection with ourselves and others, regardless of the challenges that divert us from deep interaction.
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4Culture Association
Founded in 2010, the 4Culture Association engages in contemporary arts activities, including dance, performance, visual arts, and multidisciplinary projects. Through its projects and programs, 4Culture aims to contribute to the development of contemporary art audiences in Romania, support continuous professional development, and promote young artists by providing scholarships, organizing workshops, and offering research and coaching programs, residencies, production, presentation, and dissemination opportunities.
Through its activities, 4Culture highlights the role of art in promoting intercultural dialogue, tolerance, human rights, and social cohesion by advocating for socially and politically engaged artistic creation. The developed projects facilitate meetings between artists from various fields and contribute to opening cultural institutions (museums, cultural centers) to the educational environment (communities, high schools, and universities) at both national and European levels. With recognized international experience, the projects implemented by 4Culture over its 10 years of activity have been carried out in partnership with important institutions and artists, receiving public appreciation in the cultural and creative fields.
Since 2012, 4Culture Association has been operating in the contemporary art space WASP Working Art Space and Production in Bucharest, as a co-founder of the space along with WASP Studios. An abandoned industrial hall, with an area of 500 m² within the Flaros factory, was completely renovated and transformed by the founding members into a contemporary art center for production, education, and research.
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This project is organized with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm and UNITER.
