I am Alina Dumitrescu, and I am a poet, performer, and translator.
I developed as a poetry performer within the artistic movement Strada Fără Nume n collaboration with Centrul Cultural Plai – a spoken word project, “Bringing together poets and musicians from all over — where for a week I learned what the stage means for a textual artist. This was followed by performances at the first edition of the Transylvania International Spoken Word Festival in Cluj, and within the collective exhibition Individual Compus/ Individual All-Around in partnership with Spațiul de Artă Contemporană /SAC Bucharest, as well as in the documentary exhibition Onesim://NAMEFULL in collaboration with the Timișoara Project Center and Decopertat.
In 2023, I co-founded the Timișoara artistic hub Comuna 30, with which I performed at various cultural and artistic events, such as Launmomentdat in parc, Sit & Read Artbook Fair, Street Delivery Timișoara, Muzeul Apei Timișoara, Youth Summer Fest Timișoara, Grădini Interdimensionale, and Cenaclub. In 2022, together with Andreea Băban, I created one of the finalist posters for the Poster x Poem Young Timișoara project.
“For me, poetry is nourishment, and when I’m on stage, I am in the midst of catharsis, and no consequence matters anymore. I want the audience to feel everything, because life is about everything, and sometimes people are too afraid to admit that. I write naturally about emotion and destabilization, I find something pure in pain and in the people who cry on the street. Currently, I am working on my poetry debut, which I hope will happen soon.