Creative writing

”Oneiric Literature”

A creative writing workshop

Supervisor: Ruxandra Cesereanu

The Center for Imagination Studies aims at supporting not only academic, conceptualized research into the imaginary, but also artistic projects that investigate the world of phantasms. A small group of writers, who achieved literary recognition in the ‘90s and deploy techniques of penetrating the barriers of reality through hallucination, delirium, dream, nightmare, trance or ecstasy, are included under its umbrella. These writers, who are united by their common poetics and sensibility rather than by the mere label and group identity as (neo) oneiric artists, include:

– Corin Braga, with his tetralogy Sleepwalkers (two novels of which have been published: The Claustrophobic Man and Hydra) and with Oneiria. A Dream Journal (1985-1995).

– Ruxandra Cesereanu, with her poetry volumes: Garden of Delights, Live Zone, Schizoid Ocean, Venica with Violet Lashes; fiction: Journey through the Looking Glass, Purgatories; and an anthology of Romanian oneiric poetry: Deliriums and Deliria.

– Mona Chirila, director, with the shows The Mantle by Gogol; with scenes from Bulgakov; The Bloody Wedding, adapted after Lorca; and  Nights from One Thousand and One.

– Judith Meszáros, with the poetry volumes:  The Angelciad and Yellow Submarine

– Ovidiu Pecican, with the novel: My Monkey and I

Neo-oneiric poetic arts and literature attempt to retrieve the de-realization strategies and to revisit the parallel worlds – whether they be metaphysical, psychological or aesthetic – used or discovered (invented) by the Romantics, the Surrealists, and the Oneirics of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Neo-oneiric literature redeploys these themes in the context of the phobias of the new postmodern age, reflecting the ongoing crisis of ontology, using the neo-shamanic techniques of exploring parallel realities and the computer-age methods of virtually redesigning reality.

Within this domain, the Center organizes a creative writing workshop in oneiric literature, which started in the 2002-2003 academic year, under Ruxandra Cesereanu’s supervision. Its topics were:

Edition XXI – Scriere creatoare pe scenariu de film: Avatar

Jurnal de atelier
Scenarii Avatar II

Edition XX – Istoria religiilor III – Dobrogea (septembrie 2022)

Traseu
Fotografii

Edition XIX – Atelier de proiecte digitale vizionare

Prezentare
Jurnal de bord
Synopsis – 6 proiecte

Edition XVIII – Atelier de scriere creatoare în poezie (despre inteligențele artificiale)

1. 1. Poeme

Edition XVII   – Istoria religiilor II – Dobrogea (septembrie 2021)

1. 1. Introducere
   2. Fotografii cu participanții

Edition XVI – Istoria religiilor I – Dobrogea  (august 2020)

1. 1. Introducere
   2. Fotografii cu participanții

Edition XV – Atelier de scriere creatoare – Casele melancoliei (20 aprilie 2019)

Edition XIV – Tabăra de scriere creatoare de la Săpânța (iulie 2018)

Edition XIII – Tabăra de proză de la Histria (iulie 2017)

Edition XII – Literatura provocata (Belis, 15-19 iulie 2016)

Edition XI – Zona balcanica poetica la Cluj

Invitati: Milan Dobricic si Ivan Hristov
27 mai 2016

Edition X – Cadavre exquis Dada (21 martie 2016)

Edition IX – Atelierul de scriere creatoare în proză de la Sulina

Responsabil: Ruxandra Cesereanu