ArtsLink Fellow: IOANA GEORGETA TURCAN
We are excited to welcome Romanian artist Ioana Georgeta Țurcan as our international Resident Artist! Through a CEC ArtsLink International Fellowship, Țurcan will spend 6 weeks at Second Shift sharing her practice and connecting with the local community. Țurcan’s residency will take place October–November 2024 and will include several public screenings and events.
About Ioana Țurcan
Ioana Georgeta Țurcan (1990.she/them.Romania) is a farmer, an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer, sometimes working under the avis.arys.serdi.alias.
Ioana engages with film, experimental formats, sound, photography and performative media. She is creating works and exhibitions focused on ecosystem-related themes, including landscape-based identity, fragmented personal narratives, the regeneration and the process to adapt to different forms of ambiguous loss.
In recent years, Ioana co-developed local initiatives to enhance access to art education and cultural production, facilitating workshops on analog photography, creative writing, contact sports, and filmmaking.
Since 2021, she has been part of the duo uncertain space, focusing on caregiving rituals, ambiguous loss and physical dependency.
In 2022, she co-founded the transnational artist collective an office, developing site-specific activations for Documenta 15 (Germany), Fotograf Festival (Czech Republic), and Centrul de Proiecte (Romania).
Ioana is a 2014 Fulbright Alumna and a current fellow of the ArtsLink International: US Residency, hosted by Second Shift in St Paul.
About the CEC ArtsLink International Fellowship
The ArtsLink International Fellowships program supports pioneering artists, curators, and arts leaders from our network countries in developing their community-engaged practices and fosters creative relationships with US based artists, arts organizations and communities. The program emphasizes the value of independent artist networks and sustained dialogue around the urgent issues facing our societies.
Priority will be given to artists and arts leaders whose work expands people’s awareness, understanding, and active participation in environmental and/or social justice issues. Additional attention will be given to artists and arts leaders who have been displaced from their homes or forced into exile, regardless of where they are now living.
The multi-phase fellowship offers an online research residency hosted by leading arts organizations in the US, including Puerto Rico, and a subsequent in-person immersive residency in the US and the potential for a follow up project in the artists’ home countries. This unique three-phase approach fosters a long-term dialogue between artists and citizens across nations vital to the building of a global civil, compassionate and equitable society.