Alina Popa
Alina Popa (1 February 1982, Ploiești - 1 February 2019) was a Romanian artist who moved between choreography, theory, and contemporary art. She was a cofounder of The Bureau of Melodramatic Research (BMR) and co-initiator of the ArtLeaks platform. Her political and artistic research centered on affect theory, the relationship between neoliberalism and melodrama, and the ideological ties between mountaineering and nationalism.
Popa studied finance at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies (2000-2004) before studying painting, cinematography, and photography at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Bucharest (2003-2009). At the BMR, which she founded together with Irina Gheorghe in 2009, she researched the ways in which emotion is gendered and feminized, created work that addresses the effects of capitalism in contemporary society, and formed an online platform that aims to amplify the voices of cultural workers whose labor rights have been violated.
She had shown and performed at various institutions, such as MUMOK, Vienna; DEPO, Istanbul; and Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. She lived and worked in Bucharest.
- Writings
- with Nicola Masciandaro, "Dark Wounds of Light", Vestiges 0: "Ex-Stasis", Black Sun Lit, Apr 2015, pp 173-191. [1]
- "No One Speaks", Schloss Post, Stuttgart: Akademie Schloss Solitude, 18 Oct 2016. [2]
- "Sinteza care va veni / Future Synthesis", Arta 24-25: "Hybrids", Bucharest: Revista Arta, 2017, pp 28-35. [3] (Romanian)/(English)
- "The Artworld and the Artworld", in Post-Dance, eds. Danjel Andersson, Mette Edvardsen, and Marten Spångberg, Stockholm: MDT, 2017, pp 284-312.
- "Disease as an Aesthetic Project", 2019.
- See also
- Links
- Unsorcery
- Autofagia
- Academia.edu
- Obituary: Artforum
