Ana Lupas ::working with peasant communities in 1970s Romania

In the first half of the 1970s, Romanian artist Ana Lupas undertook two participatory actions, which can be seen as an expansion of her artistic practice. Born in 1940, she was trained and initially active in the field of tapestry. As she recounts, she left the city of Cluj, where she lived (and still lives), to engage in collaborative projects with the peasant community of Mărgău, a village in Transylvania. This paper proposes examining these two actions by Lupas in connection with the following conference topics: “Collaborative and Co-Creative Art Forms”, “Critical Views on Participation”, and “Historical Perspectives”.