Viviana Druga

Invoking Raw is a participatory workshop rooted in pre-Christian traditions, eco-feminist thought, and seasonal spirituality. Taking place during the threshold between light and darkness, the session invites participants into a shared ritual space where movement, breath, voice, and storytelling converge. Central to the experience is the creation of a personal talisman made from hay—honoring the ancient spirit Raw, guardian of the harvest. As we weave, bind, and shape the golden remnants of summer, we invoke memory, intention, and protection for the dark season ahead. This workshop offers a space for healing, reflection, and embodied connection with the cycles of nature and transformation.

Viviana Druga is a Romanian visual artist based in Berlin. Her work focuses on the biographical and poetic dimensions of installation and object-based art. For Druga, art is not merely a form of expression—it is a transformative activity, a magical act in the sense that it opens up new inner landscapes for those who engage with it. Echoing Joseph Beuys’ idea of art as a liberating force, she sees creative practice as a means of personal and collective emancipation. Drawing from her rural upbringing and its connection to communal life, Druga is committed to reviving female aesthetics and forms of knowledge rooted in embodied experience. Through a “bottom-up” approach that fuses lived reality, street politics, and aesthetic formalism, she uses performance and visual storytelling to explore how rituals—both personal and collective—can become tools for empowerment and social transformation.

https://www.vivianadruga.com