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Ileana Gherghina (b. 1981, Romania)

 

https://ileana.gherghina.com/portfolio/

http://ileana.gherghina.com

http://nunuplatform.com

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/audioPixelache 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

     

     POMANAHamlet 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