Simona Dumitriu (b. 1978) is the initiator (in 2011) and member of Platforma space and collective in Bucharest – an artist-run space used for exhibitions and workshops, but also as a meeting place for interdisciplinary, social or political initiatives. Platforma project is developed within MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, in its MNAC Annex building. Currently involved in the collective are also Ileana Faur, Marian Dumitru, Claudiu Cobilanschi (www.platformaspace.wordpress.com).
She is interested in working at the intersection between artistic, teaching and social practices; archival science and theory as applied to visual arts, related to the performance of gender identity and memory in public space; discourse analysis and language/translation based projects; methodologies of collaboration, education and education as art; LGBTQAI activism and queer theory applied to contemporary art, to feminism and to other political issues. In 2014 she began working with Ramona Dima, also her life partner, forming the artistic duo Simona&Ramona and the drag king duo Claude&Dersch. Together they research poetry and archives for feminist and queer traces and affects to be resurrected and reperformed (www.poetrybody.wordpress.com). For this video presentation, she asked Ramona for her collaboration, as well as Ileana Faur. With a background in literary studies, Ramona is currently doing her PhD at the University of Bucharest, on queer culture in the Romanian context. Ileana is also a member of Platforma space and collective and she is finishing her masters’ degree in photography.
