Mask-making and mask-wearing:
Shifting im/materialities in ritual and performative contexts

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DOI: www.doi.org/10.57225/martor.2026.31

Coordinators: María Pilar PANERO GARCÍA, Adelina DOGARU ALEXA, Georgiana VLAHBEI

ISBN: 978-606-8472-48-5

Contents • Sommaire

María Pilar PANERO GARCÍA, Adelina DOGARU ALEXA, Georgiana VLAHBEI
Mask-making and Mask-wearing: Shifting Im/materialities in Ritual and Performative Contexts. An Introduction

I. Aesthetics, Biographies, and Imaginaries of the Mask

Vita SANTORO
Making/Unmaking, and Reusing. Cultural Creativity of the Masks

Marin CONSTANTIN
(Pre)figuring Physiognomy: Mask Making as an Interpretive Art among Romanian Artisans in Moldova

Emelin QUEVEDO MÁRQUEZ
The Cocorícamo of the Dominican Republic: Aesthetic Journeys between America and Europe through a Zoomorphic Mask

Cristina HURDUBAIA
The Cuci Masks of Brănești between Social Biography and Cultural Revitalization: Reflections on Object Agency

Adelina DOGARU ALEXA
Aesthetics and Archaization: Transformations in the Crafting and Sensory Impact of Romanian Carnival Masks

Sorana-Cristina MAN
Between Face and Faceless: Meanings of Masks in Greek Antiquity and Romanian Folklore

II. Embodying the Mask: Ritual, Performance, Community

Cătălin ALEXA
The Masks of Silence. A Brief History of the Ritual Mask in Căluș

Susana MORENO FERNÁNDEZ
The Mask as a Privilege. Continuities and Adaptations in Cantabria’s Vijanera

Caroline Joy TATEM
Masking with the Armagh Rhymers: Liminality and the Ritualesque

María Pilar PANERO GARCÍA
Ritual Symbolism and Communion in the Zangarrón of Montamarta

Elena FREIRE PAZ, Marta VEIGA IZAGUIRRE
Mask Producers and Mask Bearers in the Galician Entroido of the 21st Century

Adrian STOICESCU
Authenticity of the Masked Body—the Bear Dance in Present Day Digital Performance

III. Notes

Ana PASCU
Performing Traditions. Craii: A Christian Custom from the Jiu Valley, Romania

Iuliana DUMITRU
The Cincu Run of the Lole Ritual. Fieldwork Experiences

Kira SADOJA
The Reinterpretation of Folk Traditions of Christmas Masks in Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
and Mykolaichuk’s Such a Late, Such a Warm Autumn

IV. Dialogues

Irina APAN
Masking Emotions. Fostering Connection Through Performative Art in the Digital Space.
An Interview with Yuliya Tsukerman, Puppeteer and Mask Maker

Georgiana VLAHBEI, Alina TOFAN
Portals to Symbiofutures. A Mask-Wearer and Mask-Maker Dialogue on Becoming Other

V. Visual Micro-essay

Georgiana VLAHBEI, Anamaria IUGA
Engulfed by Leaves: A Short Account of a Sângiorz and the Friendships it Forged