Oana Hodade is an artist working and living in Romania.
Oana is a performer, author, composer, working primarily in the performing arts. In her work, she explores fragility, intimacy, personal space, rituals and routines of everyday life. She is interested in memory, subjectivity, language, and works with visual and sound archives and collections. She often creates while walking, employing elements of psychogeography to explore interior and exterior landscapes. Oana works at the intersection of literature, poetry, and dramaturgy, with a cinematic point of view. She likes to mix reality and fiction, and experiments with narration and visualisation in theatre. In the larger idea of stage as a ground for multidisciplinarity, her research often intersects with philosophy and anthropology.
Since 2014 she is a constant collaborator of Reactor Theatre in Cluj, Romania, where she contributes as a performer, and also researches new means of artistic expression. She also works with sound and creates music, soundscapes for theatre, and soundwalks. She contributes with texts and audio plays for Postnational Interphonic Theatre.
Her play, Scenes From the Life of the Family Stuck, received UNITER’s 2021 Romanian Play of the Year Award.
Scenes from the Life of the Family Stuck
Part of the ongoing project The Stucks that is based on a found photography archive, I wrote the play Scenes from the Life of the Family Stuck.
Going past the avalanche of conflicting feelings that surface when coming across such an object – a constant battle between curiosity and ethical distance – the dozens of images leave room for endless personal projections related to the concept of family.
