ALL SYSTEMS COLLAPSE TONIGHT explores the collective subconscious by transforming participants’ dreams into an unrepeatable, sensory performance for small groups. Using custom software, each edition analyzes and stages the dreams documented by the audience over a week, generating a unique scenario focused on embodied, fully analog, live art. The project is a collaboration with programmer Theodora Szasz, artist Niccolo de Napoli is produced by Assedio and funded by the Romanian Cultural Institute through the Cantemir Programme, with performances in Naples, Bari, and Rome in the fall of 2025.
20 MINUTES OF CLARITY is a participatory, culture-driven research experiment that blends journalism, audience analysis, and narrative play. You can take part until June 1st; after that, the cumulative results will be published on this website. The exercise explores reactions to media storytelling tools (text, image, headline) using the emblematic case of the TWA 355 hijacking, as reported in The New York Times in the fall of 1976. For this, I intuitively drew on materials from the Blinken OSA Archive in Budapest during my Visegrad grant there. Your responses will help me understand how narratives take shape in people’s minds, piece by piece.
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BLONDI is a short film set in a decadent and morally ambiguous Bucharest hair salon in ’86. The story follows a teenage girl’s entanglement with the Romanian Securitate. Produced by Numa Film and me, with Andreea Oprițescu as executive producer, the film stars Ioana Flora, Bianca Temneanu, Silvana Mihai, and Cezar Grumăzescu, with Boróka Bíró as director of photography. I have been in the editing phase for what feels like an eternity, and it looks like the journey may be far from over.
THE BREAKUP is rooted in the language of long-distance relationships, offering the audience a sublimation tool to process their own experiences of separation. A handful of people will watch this raw expressions of love and its evident end. Each of them will leave "marked." Next shows are in July at Brașov Multicultural Centre. For more about the show click here.