Ileana Gherghina (b. 1981, Romania)
https://ileana.gherghina.com/portfolio/
ABOUT ME
I am part of the Live Art Performance Group – LAPER Oxford
Co – founder of Nu Nu Platform: a research-through-practice theatre platform. Nu Nu comprises CASL (Centre for Actors in a Second Language) and Nu Nu Theatre Company.
Education
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 2010 – 2012
MA in Performance Research – Merit
My research was focused on Directing, with an emphasis on defining my own creative technique, which I call the ‘childlike approach’. Other courses I undertook were devising, alongside a scenography course and live art/performance art history and practice.
National University of Theatre and Film, I.L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania 2000 – 2004
BA in Acting for Stage and Screen – First Class Honours
Special training: My studies have included the Stanislavski technique with Prof Venjiamin Filshtinski, from The Arts Academy, St. Petersburg – Stanislavski’s Last Cahiers, Commedia dell’Arte, Physical theatre, Poetry, Dramaturgy, Dario Fo technique, Theatre History, Acting for Screen, Philosophy, Psychology, Analysis of the Acting Processes.
Artistic Activity
2023
Housing in UK | Hundred Year Gallery | London
2022
FRIENDS NOT FOR JUST 5 MINUTES BUT 10 | The Island | Bristol
NARCISSUS POETICUS performance | Hundred Year Gallery | London
CORRUPT POLITICIANS ARE KILLING DREAMS performance | Port Meadow |Oxford
BRITISH CITIZENSHIP video performance | Oracles in Sepia | Remixing The Archives is supported by the ‘Welcome Back’ Fund and Bristol UNESCO City of Film in partnership with Bristol Ideas as part of Film 2021, funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund| Bristol
2021
EMOTIONALLY BEHIND performance| Learning, adding, anything (LAPER) | Ark-T | Oxford
ARTS COUNCIL performance| Sip and fulfil new grounds (LAPER) | Ark-T | Oxford
IT’S THE FORK’S FAULT video | Intervals International Media Art Festival as part of the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod, NFTapping Pitch at Intervals Festival.
EXPERIMENT IONESCO video | PROACT Fest Kiev
POEMS reciting/audio | Sound art radio platform rasuradijas.lt. | Helsinki, Finland
INSIDE video art | 23 International Multimedia Art Festival IMAF 2021 | Serbia
SELF-SUFFICIENT BREAD photography | Economia Donut, organised by The Federal University of Santa Maria | Brazil
SHAKESPEARE SONNETS reciting/audio | Pixelache Helsinki Festival | Finland (commissioned)
BREAD WOMAN (helter-skelter) photography/video | The Gallery Art Factory Flox Kirschau | Germany
EXPERIMENT IONESCO video| International Theatre Institute | World Theatre Day 2021, Online Celebration
2020
NOSTALGIA video performance | 4’33” Residencia | Ecuador
Gallery of Modern Art ‘Mundana Andwerpen’ | Belgium
Museum of Contemporary Art ‘MANU’ | Ecuador
Virtual Gallery <<433 Residencia>>
RURAL WOMEN’S DAY video art | ARKTIK – The Institute for the Future | Croatia (commissioned)
ORACLES IN SEPIA performance video | Compass Presents | Bristol (commissioned)
I FOUND THE PERFECT PINK video art | Simultan Art Festival Timisoara | Romania
FISH MASK video art | Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival | Japan
INTOXICATED GIRL video performance |NOXE online project organised by Nu Nu Theatre | Bristol
| 22nd International Multimedia Art Festival IMAF | Serbia
PORRIDGE video performance | 180 Seconds Art Festival | Gothenburg (commissioned)
BREAD OF BRISTOL video and photography | Project commissioned by the University of Bristol Temple Quarter Engagement Fund | Bristol
UN-CAN-NY NATURE video installation | Kokkonet Copenhagen | Denmark
PAPER FACE performance | LAPER Group Oxford, Blue Room – St. Aldates | Oxford
2019 NANO FEELINGS performance | LAPER Group Oxford, Blue Room – St. Aldates | Oxford
EXPERIMENT IONESCO theatre/installation | HighFest International Performing Arts Festival (official selection) Yerevan | Armenia
HUMAN POISON performance | Lead – One Day Performance Festival, Headington Hill Hall | Oxford
| Reversed Event, University of Bristol, White Theatre (organized by Nu Nu Theatre) | Bristol
FRIENDS FOR 5 MINUTES performance | LAPER Group Oxford, Blue Room – St. Aldates | Oxford
2018
MUMMY – A REMEMBERING THE OTHER performance | Modern Art Oxford | Squash and Stretch book launch | Oxford
BANDIT theatre/installation | HighFest International Performing Arts Festival (official selection) Yerevan | Armenia
WITCHES DAUGHTERS performance | Ashmolean Museum Spellbound Live Friday | Oxford
WINTER FAIRY performance | Hogacre Common Art Show | Oxford
EGG – HAMLET 2 performance/installation | Squash and Stretch Festival Oxford, Headington Hill Hall | Oxford
2017
LORD BORIS theatre/performance| Elastic Festival Oxford Headington Hill Hall | Oxford
BANDIT theatre/performance | commissioned by LAPER Oxford Brookes University Arena Space, Richard Hamilton Building | Oxford
EGG–HAMLET 1 installation | The Vestibules Gallery Bristol
POMANA–Hamlet Event (organized by Nu Nu Theatre) | exhibition Frilagret Gothenburg, Sweden
2016
LORD BORIS theatre/performance | Gothenburg Fringe Festival, Frilagret Gothenburg | Sweden
| White Theatre, University of Bristol
BANDIT theatre/performance/installation | Frilagret Gothenburg | Sweden
EXPERIMENT IONESCO theatre/installation | Bristol Old Vic, 250 Years Anniversary
2015
BILLIE KILLER theatre/performance | Arnolfini Gallery Bristol, Dark Studio
| LAPsody Festival Helsinki, University of Art Helsinki
EXPERIMENT IONESCO theatre/installation | Sir Robert Martin Theatre Loughborough University (commissioned)
2014
EXPERIMENT IONESCO theatre/installation | Round House London, Accidental Festival (organized by the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama London)
BILLIE KILLER theatre/performance | White Theatre, University of Bristol
2013
EXPERIMENT IONESCO theatre/installation | Inside Arts: Festival of the Arts and Humanities Bristol (commissioned by University of Bristol) | Stroud Theatre Festival
2012
EXPERIMENT IONESCO theatre/installation | Wickham Theatre Bristol, University of Bristol
2011
IS PITY SHE’S A WHORE theatre | Wickham Theatre
Bristol, University of Bristol
Workshops | Residencies
The Vestibules, Bristol Residency | Oresteia in the Place of an Orangutan | 2021
University of Bristol, UK | White Theatre Residency | 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013
Spike Island Bristol, UK Residency | Waiting for Godot | 2018
Oxford Brookes University, UK Workshop | Childhood Memories | 2017
Loughborough University, UK Workshop |Childlike | 2015
Helsinki Art University, Finland Workshop | 2015
Arnolfini Gallery Bristol, UK Residency | 2015
University of Bristol, UK Workshop | Postgraduate Symposium | 2014
Publications/Conferences
IPPT Italy | Presenting ”Teleleu”- paper and workshop | 2023
“Where to land” Forum | Maillon Theatre Strasbourg | 2022
University of London | Intersections of Finance and Society Conference | Paper ‘God is a Banker’ | 2022
Paddler Press’s Volume 2 Roots & Wings | Toronto, Canada | Poems | Publication 2021
TAPRA (bursary recipient)| Liverpool Hope University | Paper ‘Unknowing our actor training or un-bonsai-ing the bonsai – the childlike approach to theatre-making’ |2021
WordCity Literary Journal, Canada | Poems Women’s rights in the workplace | Publication 2021
IFTR Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway | Paper Theatre in the place of animals/Oresteia in the Place of an Orangutan |2021
WordCity Literary Journal, Canada | Poems (M)othering |Publication 2021
Live Art and Performance Group, Oxford | Squash & Stretch Texts | Publication 2019
University of The Arts, Helsinki | Case of Emergency : Emergent Writings on Live Art and Performance | Publication 2016
Awards and Grants
University of Bristol Temple Quarter Engagement Fund
Theatre Bristol, UK Agent Grant
Alumni Foundation, University of Bristol, UK
Arts Council England and National Lottery Funding UK
‘’Biggest Face Punch’’ Award (for uncompromisingly capturing the essence of oppression, in the production BANDIT) | Gothenburg Fringe Festival