Biography

Tangaj Collective is a production company based in Bucharest, creating socially-engaged work, fusing art, science and research. Working across genres and formats, Simona Deaconescu examines social constructs, at the border of fiction and objective reality, sometimes with irony and dark humor. Her work explores future scenarios of the body, creating spaces in which nature, history, and technology meet, and the notion of choreography extends beyond the human body. Ioana Vreme Moser is a Romanian sound artist, based in Berlin, engaged with hardware electronics, speculative research, and tactile experimentation. She places electronic components and control voltages in different situations of interaction with her body, organic materials, lost and found items, and environmental stimuli. Simina Oprescu is a Romanian composer of electroacoustic music and sound artist based in Berlin, submersing herself in the intricacies of sound’s acoustic and spectral properties. She employs acoustic artifacts from physical or natural spaces as recordings, showcasing techniques cultivated through an investigative electroacoustic composition approach. The three artists have come together, under Tangaj Collective's umbrella, to work on their first collaborative work — The Choreography of Water.

Artistic project

Choreographer and filmmaker Simona Deaconescu, visual artist Ioana Vreme Moser, and sound artist Simina Oprescu bring their futuristic and uncanny universes together in The Choreography of Water. The newest Tangaj Collective production critically addresses water movement from the oceans to the body. The performance explores our bodies as fluid territories, where human and non-human worlds meet, inviting audiences to rethink the political implications of water flows.

Four dancers interact with a series of water-based sculptures to generate sound, exploring the relationship between movement and fluid computing—a form of computation that emulates the natural rhythms of the planet through water streams. As the sculptures’ sounds are amplified and enriched, they transform into immersive sonic landscapes, becoming dynamic instruments for the performers to explore and manipulate.

The Choreography of Water is a speculative piece that envisions a different hydrological cycle for Earth’s future, it’s about the streams that weave the planet’s life from the intracellular to the extracellular fluids in our bodies, to the ports we build to connect with the world, to the shallow waters we use to get our food, the rivers that enrich our cities, to the deep sea that is as strange to us as a distant planet.

Format: performance

Size of audience: 100 — 200 people (or more)

Specific location: seaside, outdoor space, alternative space, nearing bodies of water, underground sites

Timing / duration: approx. 60 min / day or night