The Aesthetic Surveillance of Performance Art by the Romanian Securitate in the 1970s and 1980s

Preda, Caterina

doi:10.1080/09528822.2021.1916219

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“…Other studies further analyse the Securitate’s collaborative efforts to control religious freedoms (Cindrea-Nagy, 2022; Pintilescu, 2022; Șincan, 2022; Turcescu and Stan, 2021). Examination of the Securitate files has resulted in a significant body of research into the mechanisms of control employed by the Russian communist regime and a deeper understanding of the role the Securitate played in that context (Deletant, 2015; Puttkamer et al, 2014) – research which details the Securitate’s surveillance of literature, performative arts and music (Mogoș and Berkers, 2018; Preda, 2021). Through a close reading of the Securitate files on writers and artists, these studies reveal much about the regime’s ideology and their surveillance of the cultural landscape, identifying targets thought to have the potential to communicate subversive content hostile to the regime – targets to be monitored and, if necessary, subjected to various intimidation tactics.…”

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Memorability of Romanian dissidence: Ordinary people, secret files and artistic remediations

Mitroiu,

Mironescu

2024

Journal of European Studies

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The article explores the conditions necessary for a narrative recounting of past events to become memorable and incorporated into collective memory. The analysis is focused on the role played by artistic remediations in creating such memorability. In Romania, as well as in other East Central European countries, the production of memorability and the management of the resulting collective memories are interlinked with the narratives of communism that dominate the memorialisation of the recent past. The article reviews several examples of acts of dissent, based on their representativeness and the existing literature, and question the memorability of dissident acts by considering the memory discourse on communism and the involvement of different agents of memory. It also interrogates the use of the Romanian secret police (Securitate) files in artistic productions, examining this acknowledgement of the role played by the Securitate in creating the narratives of the communist past. Two artistic productions based on reworkings of the Securitate files are analysed: a documentary theatre play staged by Gianina Cărbunariu, Uppercase Print (2013), and Radu Jude’s 2020 film of the same title, both presenting the story of Mugur Călinescu. The article argues that these productions question mainstream frames of memory by revisiting the narratives and biographies created by the Securitate files and give new, artistically mediated voices to victims, perpetrators and collaborators.

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Section: Securitate Files and Artistic Reworkingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Memorability of Romanian dissidence: Ordinary people, secret files and artistic remediations

Mitroiu,

Mironescu

2024

Journal of European Studies

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Cultural Surveillance in Communist Romania in the 1950s and 1960s. Repression, Re-Education, and Reinsertion. The Case of Constantin Noica

Dălălău

2022

Acta MN

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The present study aims to analyze the relationship between the so‑called ‘bourgeois’ intellectuals (socialized and educated in prestigious cultural groups in the interwar society) and the Romanian secret police, the Securitate, from three perspectives: repression, re‑education, and social reinsertion. The main argument is that all three phases corresponded to Politburo’s political approaches directly related to the evolution of internal or international political events of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The sources used are the Securitate files of the persons convicted in the ‘Noica–Pillat trial’ from 1960. The research method is qualitative analysis combining an institutional approach of the Securitate files with a case study. Consequently, the article focuses on the case of Constantin Noica, a prominent Romanian intellectual. He was sentenced to prison in 1960, pardoned in 1964, and later used by the regime in power service. The Securitate used Constantin Noica’s friendship with Emil Cioran and Mircea Eliade to attract prestigious intellectuals back to Romania and enhance the nationalist orientation of the regime through philosophy.

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The Aesthetic Surveillance of Performance Art by the Romanian Securitate in the 1970s and 1980s

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Memorability of Romanian dissidence: Ordinary people, secret files and artistic remediations

Memorability of Romanian dissidence: Ordinary people, secret files and artistic remediations

Cultural Surveillance in Communist Romania in the 1950s and 1960s. Repression, Re-Education, and Reinsertion. The Case of Constantin Noica

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