Marginal

On October 15th, Anna Dumitriu and Alexandra Ciocan conducted a workshop with students in the framework of Transper, examining the antimicrobial power of edelweiss and smoketree callus cultures, at UNATC/ CINETic.

Part of the Otherwise Residency program, Marginal’s core platform for artistic research at the intersection of art, science, and public policy. It provides artists and researchers with the time, resources, and context to explore questions that exceed conventional disciplinary boundaries, allowing art to take an active stance towards contemporary environmental issues.
The second run of the art–science research residency, developed in collaboration with the Institute of Biology Bucharest of the Romanian Academy and 2Celsius, connects artists and specialists in scientific research, pollution monitoring and environmental policy, in three explorations of the ways in which we relate to otherness and the non-human across perceptual strata.

Cultural partners: Atelier 35, Zile și Nopți, French Institute in Romania, Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest
Acknowledgements: Clean Air Task Force, Radio Guerrilla

Otherwise Residency 2026 is co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund - AFCN, and implemented with the financial support of the French Embassy in Romania and the French Institute in Romania.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the manner in which the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.

Images from the Silent Pressures exhibition opening on October 14 - an occasion to collectively ask what happens when different ways of perceiving, knowing, and inhabiting the world meet.

The exhibition concluding the second edition of Otherwise Residency, curated by Sabina Suru, brought together projects from Alexandra Costea in collaboration with Cristina Moisescu and Ana Zamfirescu, Anna Dumitriu in collaboration with Alexandra Ciocan, and Dominika Glogowski working with Mihai Stoica and Théophile Humann-Guilleminot.

Bringing artistic research into dialogue with biology, medicine, mythology, and environmental inquiry, the three projects created a space to stay with what is not always noticeable, measurable, or easy to name. How do fragile temporalities and materialities shape our sense of identity? What can science tell us when it meets vernacular knowledge, or history when it encounters the future? And what does it mean to embody invisibility when its consequences are felt on both individual and planetary scales?

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Atelier 35 and contributed to the conversation!

Photos by Calin Szanto.

Silent Pressures is part of the Otherwise Residency program, Marginal’s core platform for artistic research at the intersection of art, science, and public policy. It provides artists and researchers with the time, resources, and context to explore questions that exceed conventional disciplinary boundaries, allowing art to take an active stance towards contemporary environmental issues.
The second run of the art–science research residency, developed in collaboration with the Institute of Biology Bucharest of the Romanian Academy and 2Celsius, connects artists and specialists in scientific research, pollution monitoring and environmental policy.

Partners: Atelier 35, Zile și Nopți, French Institute in Romania, Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest
Acknowledgements: Clean Air Task Force, Radio Guerrilla

Otherwise Residency 2026 is co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund - AFCN, and implemented with the financial support of the French Embassy in Romania and the French Institute in Romania.