The final episode of this season of SWORDS – Spoken Word Sessions brings together Svetlana Cârstean, Marius Aldea, and Micleușanu M., in a performance moderated by Cosmin Perța - Sunday, May 10, from 19:00, at Control Club. The performances will be complemented by an audio-visual set by Iulian Morar.
After the show, the evening continues with After SWORDs w/ Iulian Morar.
About the performers
Svetlana Cârstean is a poet and translator, author of several poetry volumes published between 2008 and 2025, and curator of the “Vorpal” poetry collection at Nemira Publishing House. Her debut, Floarea de menghină (Cartea Românească, 2008), received multiple awards, including the Romanian Writers’ Union Prize for Poetry Debut, the România literară Debut Prize, the National Poetry Prize “Mihai Eminescu,” and the Radio România Cultural Poetry Award. This was followed by Gravitație (Trei, 2015), Trado (Albert Bonnier and Rámus, 2016), co-written with Swedish poet Athena Farrokhzad, and Sînt alta (Nemira, 2021). Her work has been translated into several languages and published internationally. In 2025, she released Restul and Arteziana (Nemira), the first two volumes of what she describes as an “organic and personal trilogy of vital themes that bring you back into the world.”
Marius Aldea is a contemporary author known for both poetry and playwriting. He has published several poetry volumes, including sinistra (Max Blecher Publishing House) and Maruth (Art Publishing). Between 2020–2021, his plays Outfitul șearpelui and Viva la vulva were staged by director and choreographer Andrea Gavriliu at the Marin Sorescu Theatre in Craiova.
Micleușanu M. (b. 1972, Bahçesaray) is a multidisciplinary artist — writer, visual artist, radio producer, and sound/image experimenter — who studied art in Chișinău and Cluj-Napoca. He is involved in numerous experimental projects (Diafragma, Pneumaton, Ermetic. Mijatka, CPU99, etc.) and explores the relationship between sound, image, and idea, treating composition as a form of sonic research grounded in innovation and the avoidance of convention. His central themes include: the cyberization of perception and behavior, consumption as norm, the reduction of existence to Pavlovian impulses, the failure of triumphalism, the inefficiency of hierarchies, ideology and propaganda, ecological issues, and the tension between war and the belief that we might still be free.
Cosmin Perța, poet, novelist, essayist, and cultural manager, is a key voice in contemporary literature. He has published six poetry volumes, created multimedia poetic installations, and performed at numerous international festivals across four continents.
Iulian Morar (IM pulse, Guidance), curator and cultural event organizer, is co-founder of SWORDS and founder of Liveland. He created the Midweek Tapes concept at Control and is a frequent collaborator on audio-visual spoken word projects.
SWORDS brings together poets, performers, actors, and writers in a series of spoken word shows enhanced by music and multimedia projections. Conceived and curated by Cosmin Perța and Iulian Morar, the project explores artistic expression at the intersection of literature and performance.
Event presented by Liveland.