I feel rather unwell. proposes a categorization of the different existing forms of self-sabotage through (self-)deception. Assuming the discourse of the inner voice—which becomes moralizing when things go wrong—the performance focuses on the internal confusion produced by the distortion of perception through denial/manipulation/minimization/hypocrisy—repeating over and over again the same two questions: Is it unclear? Why is that?
I feel rather unwell.
With Cristiana Bândilă, Cătălin Filip, and Casian Ulici
Direction and dramaturgy: Jasmina Cloșcă
Choreography: devised
Technical direction: Cătălin Filip
Live subtitles producer: Pivot
Co-producer: Casa Tranzit
Live video production and streaming: Talo House of Stories
Language: Romanian with English subtitles
This performance runs seventy minutes.
This performance was presented and streamed from Tranzit House, Cluj, as part of the Tranzit Days XXVIII Festival. The festival was co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund in Romania and the Department for Interethnic Relations.
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Tranzit Days XXVIII Festival
The performance was presented in the context of the XXVIII celebration of Tranzit House, one of the oldest independent art spaces of its kind in Romania.
In the fall of 1997, the building of the former Poale Tzedek synagogue, which had fallen into disuse and was badly damaged, was reintroduced into the cultural landscape of the city through the Casa Tranzit project. It is the first example in Romania where the historical and symbolic value of a former synagogue has been brought back into the local and international public attention through the creation of an independent cultural center.
This year's edition of Tranzit Days starts from the concept of "heterotopia"—understood as a real (not utopian, i.e. non-existent) space, but one that is loaded with symbolic layers and potentialities and reflects the society to which it belongs.
Through this conceptual framework, the festival brought together performances, exhibitions, in-situ interventions, community workshops, and conferences that not only document the space but also return it to the public circuit. Each artistic gesture becomes a way to reconfigure the relationship between memory and the present, between communities and the city. Our aim is to cultivate the living memory of a place emblematic of the city's intercultural history, reaffirming Casa Tranzit as a space for dialogue, reflection, and urban imagination. By symbolically activating the area of the former synagogue, the program emphasizes critical responsibility towards urban development and the active and creative involvement of the community in the city's transformation processes.
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