In the leading role: Ilonka néni (1932 – 2022) | Commemorative exhibition

Opening hours: OCTOBER 11, 19:00 – 20:00 | OCTOBER 12, 12:00 – 14:30 | OCTOBER 13, 14, 15, 12:00 – 22:00
Venue: Tranzit House

Ileana Lăcătuș, Ilonka néni, as we called her, who passed away recently, was a beloved artist, collaborator and close friend of Tranzit House. We can read about the events of her turbulent life in the biographical book entitled Ilonka néni, written in three languages, Rromani, Romanian and English. She was already an elderly lady when she debuted as an actress in the collaborative video-motion theatre productions of Tranzit Foundation: in 1999 in the theatre show BluEscape, directed by Radu Afrim, where she presented a poem of Laurie Anderson in her own adaptation, and later, in the performances Ilona: Surprize, surprize… and Black&White, in the frame of the interactive and interethnic motion-theatre named RromaNative&Co, playing the main role. The foto-video exhibition commemorates the artistic activity of Ileana Lăcătuș through the images preserved in the archive of Tranzit Foundation.

Foto-video images: Dănuț Chiribeș, Dénes Miklósi, Tibor Schneider, and many others.
Curator: Csilla Könczei
© Archive of Tranzit Foundation

More information:
https://www.npage.org/…/9b8ff18ed8f69b5d19268b7d1c135e3…
https://www.academia.edu/…/Collaborative_projects_with…
https://www.cinema-arta.ro/evenimente/ilonka

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The programme is part of the Transeuropa Festival, organised by European Alternatives, in collaboration with Tranzit House, ZIZ – Art and Social Area, Reactor, Cinema Arta, Radio Pata, UTP – Untitled Theatre Project, Căși Sociale Acum!/Social Housing Now! and Fondazione Studio Rizoma. The project is financed by the European Union, with the support of Erste Stiftung.