Diana Duta is a Romanian born, Brussels based artist. Her current work focuses on concepts of mimesis, reiteration, translation and echoic memory, by appropriating and re-interpreting existing material into multiple forms, operating always in a collaborative, open-ended, inclusive way. These elements come together in live performances, sound compositions for radio, and writing. Her project Jambes is a recording studio commissioning new work by artists experimenting with sound and voice.
My work has been broadcast during Radiophrenia festival, Glasgow, The power of doing nothing on Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee radio, Amsterdam, Borealis radio festival, Bergen, Norway, Oscillation Mayday Radio Marathon, Brussels (2020), Ear you are festival, Brussels (2019), Radiophrenia festival, Glasgow (2019), on Noods Radio, Bristol (2018) and by We Were Real Pirates, a pirate radio established at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London (2016).
Recent translations include '175 Minutes in Mizil', a first time translation into English of the experimental reportage by Romanian Surrealist Geo Bogza, published by Hotel Magazine.
Education & residencies
2022 (upcoming) Sail Britain - The Life of Islands Residency, Inner Hebrides Islands, Scotland
2021 Le Delta, Namur, Belgium
2020 Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj, Romania (with Enrico Floriddia)
2020 bi- residencies, Sainte-Consorce, France
2020 residency at QO2, workspace for experimental sound and music, Brussels
2019 bi- residencies, Milo-Térénez international art biennial, Térénez, FR
2019 Grizedale Arts residency, Cumbria, UK
2018 Arnis residency curated by ramosluebbert, Arnis, Germany
2018 Residency at Rollaversion, London
2013 MA Sociocultural Linguistics, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2011 New Sonic Practice masterclass by Michael J. Schumacher, iMAL, Brussels, BE
2010 MA Fine Art at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2009 Residency at Kulturdrogerie, Vienna, AT
2008 BA Photography and Video, National University of Arts, Bucharest, RO
Selected performances, sound composition, exhibitions
2021
(upcoming) Podcast listening session, 'Ne se voient pas de loin', Le Delta, Namur, Belgium
(upcoming) The Haunted House (performative exhibition curated by Simone Basani), Hectolitre, Brussels, Belgium
Jambes is in the air, concert with Jambes artists (Che Vuoi, Solah, Bergur Anderson, Nicolas Jorio) hosted by nadine & Various Artists, Brussels, Belgium
2020
I was a drum's voice in the night but sleeping (sound composition / audio guide), with Enrico Floriddia and Sinta Wibowo, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj, Romania
Second Sundays #23, Cabaret Sentimental (presentation of Jambes), Q-O2, Brussels, Belgium
tobetold (live performance with Paul Haworth), Hectolitre, Brussels, Belgium
Domini abbandonati, sound contribution together with bi- to LISTENING TO ~ THE POWER OF DOING NOTHING, Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, online radio dedicated to the arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wave Debris (live transmission at a distance with Julia E. Dyck), Oscillation Mayday Radio Marathon, Brussels, Belgium
IOU (4 channel sound installation), Q-O2, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Riddles & vowels (live performance), Artist Commons, Brussels
Wave Debris (music performance at a distance with Julia E Dyck), rocks radio radar long wave radiation, curated by Cristina Ramos, The Watch, Berlin
Lege Naturala, sound contribution for Serena Lee's exhibition Second Tongues, Cubitt Gallery, London
Sustain piece - after John Stevens, Smoking Concert, l'Archiduc smoking room, Brussels
2018
Having purple eyes (live performance), feeelings, Brussels
The current is coming towards us, (live performance), Arnis, Germany
Having purple eyes, split show with Drunkard on Noods Radio, Bristol
Having purple eyes (live performance / solo show), Rollaversion Gallery, London
Having purple eyes (live performance), Peryton, Copenhagen
Having purple eyes (live performance), Buktapaktop, Brussels
Jonah (forthcoming) a new English translation of the theatre play “Iona” (Marin Sorescu, 1969), featuring a visual translation by Ross Taylor and a contribution by Kate Briggs, published by MPP, London
2017
“175 Minutes in Mizil”, a first time translation into English of the experimental reportage by Romanian Surrealist author Geo Bogza (http://partisanhotel.co.uk/Minutes-in-Mizil)
Diana Duta & Hotel Magazine (reading), Wiels Art Book Fair, Brussels
Diana Duta & Thomas Chadwick, “Petroleum Poem” and “Birch” (reading), Le Sceptre, Brussels
2016
The Silver Tower (screening), Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris and Berlin
2015
Standing in the Doorway (The Interpreting Log) (solo show), Min, Rotterdam (NL)
Dark days dark nights, Houseproject 27, London (UK)
An evening with Flat i, Flat i, London (UK)
2014
Jonah (solo show / premiere of audio play), The Romanian Cultural Centre in London (UK)
House with doors and windows (publication), Extrapool, Nijmegen (NL)
To Have and To Hold issue 4, (performance and publication), X Marks the Bokship, London (UK)
2013
The Beginning of Something, Mieke van Schaijk, ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL)
Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm (SE) (with pietmondriaan.com)
An Experiment to test the Destiny of the World, Sober & Lonely ICA, Johannesburg (ZA) (with pietmondriaan.com)
2011
HOMEWORK, The Ister, Brussels (BE)
Cinema for the ears, Super Sonic Festival, Birmingham (UK)
Wild Book Market, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam (NL)
2010
If You Say Something, See Something, TENT, Rotterdam (NL) (curated by Mai Abu ElDahab with Guy Ben-Ner)
If You Say Something, See Something, (publication), published by Piet Zwart Institute ic.w. TENT, Rotterdam (NL)
Bosch Young Talent Show, St. Joost, ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL) (curated by Liesbeth Bik)
Bruegel’s Village, BLAAK10 Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
(Mis)reading Masquerades, (publication), published by Revolver (ed. Frederique Bergholtz, Iberia Perez)
ZONDERPIT (performance), Roodkapje, Rotterdam (NL)
Exchange (performance), Rotterdam (NL)
2009
minus20plus, Kulturdrogerie, Vienna (AT)
I KNOW A FRIEND THAT KNOWS A FRIEND THAT..., Poortgebouw, Rotterdam (NL)
It Hits My Hair, Wolfart, Rotterdam (NL)
2008
It’s not me it’s you, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
Book in a minute (screening), Kunstvlaai/ A.P.I., Amsterdam (NL)
Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, XIIIth Edition, Puglia (IT)
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2015
Co-founder of Flat i, an apartment in South East London which hosts events, exhibitions and live music
2014
Project grant, Romanian Cultural Centre, London
Metropolitan Police Interpreter Test, South Thames College, London
2013
Public service interpreting course, Hammersmith & Fulham, London
Collection Conservation, Internship at LUX distribution, London
2012
Contributor to contemporary art blog and curatorial platform pietmondriaan.com
Co-curator Sorry for not standing still, screening programme at Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam
Co-curator I want to believe, performance evening at Incubate festival, Tilburg (NL)