Draft Journal

A text by in the third issue of Draft Journal.

Dragoș C. Costache is a writer because he writes, which sounds much better than “Scriitor” in Romanian. Scriitor is cringe. Writing in the age of LLMs is also nothing to brag about, but rather something akin to an artisanal basket weaver, a niche, slightly sad occupation for out-of-touch urbanites left behind by progress.

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A text by *t in the third issue of Draft Journal.

Suzana Dan lives and works in Bucharest, a city that, as one artist aptly described in the early 2000s, we all both love and hate at the same time. Her creative activity spans multiple professional levels, from artist to cultural manager. Interested in collaborative processes and communities from various areas, more or less known to the general public, she works alongside artists active in different cultural fields. Passionate about the creative community and beyond, she explores and collaborates with various spaces, from those self-managed by artists to museum institutions, which led her to initiate in 2007 NAG, the White Night of the Galleries – currently the longest-running event in Romania dedicated to contemporary culture.

Since 2016, she has been directly involved in the formation of the contemporary cultural centre Rezidența9, becoming its manager in 2018. Currently, she coordinates Rezidența9, curates exhibitions, imagines projects with and about people, cooks for friends, rarely paints, and carefully curates her social media accounts.

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A short film by .p31 in the third issue of Draft Journal.

Crina Păsculescu is an experimental filmmaker currently studying at CESI. Her passion for film stems from an inclination towards multiple artistic fields, such as poetry, photography and music, which she has been exploring since 2019. Waitscape (2025), her first short film, is an exploration of representing emotions, through stillness and movement.

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A text by in the third issue of Draft Journal.

Christa Anghel is currently pursuing a master’s degree at CESI, with a strong passion for theatre and a deep curiosity about how identity unfolds in both performance and everyday life. Her work explores the fluid nature of identity and presence, seeking to capture the subtle interplay between self, space, and story.

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A work by .andrei in the third issue of Draft Journal. Text by .

Andrei Tomeci is a master’s student at CESI.

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A text by in the third issue of Draft Journal.

Magdalena Zilcher came to Bucharest through an internship. As an art historian (University of Vienna, Università Roma Tre) and cultural theorist (University of Arts Linz), she uses language to cast light on the hidden and moldy cracks of our social togetherness.

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A text by Terolaviu Popescu in the third issue of Draft Journal.

Terolaviu Popescu is a composer, theorist, and rogue academic. He wrote several compositions for electronic instruments as well as a few indie film scores. Through his work, he explores various concepts rooted in physics, cybernetics, and cultural theory. He is currently developing an app to help people learn Georgian.

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.claud writes about mosaics in the third issue of Draft Journal.

Claudia Chiriță is a logician. She teaches at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest.

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writes about maidane in the third issue of Draft Journal.

Maria (Malexan) Alexandrescu is a landscape architect and researcher. They are finishing a phd on “Common maidan futures: caring for Bucharest’s marginal and peripheral landscapes” at the University of Sheffield.

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A chapter from 's Măiastra: A History of Romanian Sculpture in Twenty-Four Parts in the third issue of Draft Journal. Illustration by .

Timothy Stanley is an artist from New York City who lives and works in Transylvania, Romania. Stanley uses a combination of mediums, including sculpture, writing, and game development, in order to explore the boundaries of literary narrative, with the aim of uncovering new techniques in storytelling.

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An interview with by .eduard.dragan in the third issue of Draft Journal (feat. ).

Vlad Nancă studied at the Department of Photography and Moving Image at the National University of Arts, Bucharest. He uses political and cultural symbols to explore nostalgia and the changes in society, set against the backdrop of Romania and Eastern Europe’s recent history and the rise of aggressive capitalism in the early 2000s. In his most recent work, he explores space in various forms, from public space and architecture to outer space, consistently utilising archival material and references from art and architectural history to create unique subject matter materialising in sculptures and installations.

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A text by for the third issue of Draft Journal.

Ruxandra Săndulescu studies cities and the ways we experience urban space. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Faculty of Horticulture with an Erasmus+ year at the École de la Nature et du Paysage in Blois, and a master’s degree in visual studies at CESI. Now, as a PhD researcher, she explores how visual cultural studies can enrich urban analysis, seeking creative ways to read, map, and reimagine the city through collective memory and lived experience.

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