A new performance was developed in connection with the film. Premiere with  Irina Gheorghe and Silvia Costin on 7 July 2023, 20h.

The Bureau of Melodramitic Research (BMR for short) was founded in 2009 by Irina Gheorghe (b. 1981) and Alina Popa (1982-2019). Work by the bureau has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest; HOME Manchester; Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY; Times Museum, Guangzhou; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; TRAFO, Budapest; bak: basis voor aktuele kunst, Utrecht; mumok Kino, Vienna. Outside the BMR, Irina Gheorghe works mainly with performance, in combination with installation, collage, photography, sound or video. Thematically, her works revolve around the attempt to speak about things beyond our perceptual possibilities – from extraterrestrial life forms to hypothetical planets. Alina Popa, who initially studied finance, focused her artistic research on affect theory, specifically the relationship between neoliberalism and melodrama and the ideological connections between mountaineering and nationalism. She has had exhibitions and performances at MUMOK, Vienna; DEPO, Istanbul and Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, among others.

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