Visual artist exploring social psychology, education, ecology, and contemporary philosophy
Nita Mocanu (b. 1977) is a visual artist whose work explores social psychology, education, ecology, and contemporary philosophy, particularly new materialism. She studied graphic arts and photo-video at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, exhibiting locally and internationally. Between 2003 and 2008, she co-founded the media activism group D Media, focusing on video documentaries. Since 2012, she has taught art, developing media education and contemporary art projects in education. In 2022, she founded the Doar Mâine Association (Only Tomorrow), launching major projects like “Post-education. Pedagogies of Crisis” and “Laborator Speculativ Doar Mâine,” part of Timișoara’s European Capital of Culture 2023 program.
Projects highlights
A series of art projects, projects created and implemented with Doar Mâine Association, collaborations with other artists or cultural actors who have had a particular importance in my artistic journey
ART-ROSA 2024
Founded in 2024 in Oradea by visual artists Nita Mocanu and Delia Popa, ART ROSA integrates art and education through innovative research methods, to both diagnose and transform educational practices in Romania.
ONLY TOMORROW SPECULATIVE LAB 2023-2024
Created in the framework of Timișoara 2023 European Capital of Culture, the exhibition delves into speculative approaches to current issues, blending creativity and technology.
POST-EDUCATION. PEDAGOGIES OF CRISIS 2022-2023
The project aims to develop a cultural ecosystem supporting education in addressing current crises (climatic, energetic, political, epidemiological, etc.) and creating sustainable future strategies. https://posteducatia.ro/
ETHO.TK 2016-2018
An online project created by Marius Stoica in collaboration with Nita Mocanu and build around the concept of ethotecture – the well-trodden and worn invisible paths from within the networks of objects, things and beings from which we are part
SURVIVING MECHANISMS, SELFREE, SUBSOL 16 2017-2023
A series of contemporary art projects developed in collaboration with teenage students and guest artists
D MEDIA 2003-2008
The activities of the association were media productions on topics such as: human rights, alternative media, recent history, globalization, civil society, etc; promoting a “do it yourself” media ethic
Video art
Video art has consistently been my preferred medium, through which I create works of video poetry, video documentary, and video performance.
Installation art
My installations serve as a method of staging a unique approach to analysis. They represent a personal quest to explore the interconnectedness of various elements, with the goal of inspiring change and offering new perspectives.
Photography
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“We’re in the world, not against it. It doesn’t work to try to stand outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn’t work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Contact information
nita.stoica [at] gmail.com