Zsuzsanna Gyetvai
aka Zsi Chimera *1978 Hungary - 2013 Luxor
Zsi and Joe with Olli their dog lived in Clapham Common, London
We can not go there where you are now
as friends we have cared and protected you
and you have given us your lightness and smiles
we have exchanged themes of life
and understood each others aims to venture in the
artistic life with aspiration
we can not go there where you are now
but you can come to us and patiently we endure
the times when we miss your presence
until you come to us.
dagmar glausnitzer-smith april 2013
Images from T.a.T. Performance Art Workshop 2007
kunstwirkstoff, Jerxheim Bahnhof
photographed by A. Rues and D. Glausnitzer-Smith
Werktag
an Edu-Action event
Werktag is a one-day in-situ
Live Action Art /Performance
Workshop for students of the Fine Art BA Course at European Academies and
Universities. The ‘marathon’ Werktag Performance Art Workshop takes place over
a period of 12 hours, 7 am – 7 pm.
A second day may be organized if an exhibition and public invitation is
included.
The workshop can be
organized at least once a year in any European City. Students who have
participated in previous workshops are being invited alongside with local
regional students of an associated institution. The objective is to work and
collaborate with interested tutors of Fine Art Courses at local Art Academies. Preparations include the coordination
of dates, sites, walks, locations, places, debates and public presentations.
The learning process
assesses a cultural experience with ‘local’ people, urban settings and
country-specific places. It creates links to artists working practices in the
process of intervention and adaptation of ‘foreign’ encounters: language with
‘street impression experiences’. The connections between the social and
environmental understanding links with the idea of subjectivity, which is
tending to become a recourse of consideration of Self instead of being a division between information technologies
and prejudices in the system of knowledge. The live body of the workshop
participant and his/her consideration of presentation politics are being
negotiated against the plane of immanence and becomes a highly absorbent
presence in the understanding of the “now”. At the root of the art-making
process here lies the production of subjectivity in a far less specific event
than to manifest a method: an action with and alongside a foreign cultural
background. Individual action and interaction gives rise to clarity of
situation, understanding and image making which bears its generosity in the viewer’s
impression and memory.
So far Werktag 1,Werktag 2, Werktag 3, Werktag 4 has been taking
place in Berlin, Germany (March 2004, September 2004, May 2005, March 2008)
where research, coordination, transportation and accommodation was in part
self-funded and organized by Kingston University, London.
The aim is to develop a
conceptual workshop structure for international student exchange supported and
funded by local institutions with the
emphasis on city-site-specific and the idea of ‘foreigness’, experienced during
a marathon (7 am until 7 pm) Live Action Art and Performance Art Workshop.
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Werktag 2004 Berlin site
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Thinking of Zsi and Joe
Gathering at Southbank London March 15, 2013 at 1:30 pm with Martina Ziewe, Emily Souter Johnson, Hannah Terry/Benini, Stevie McGarrity Alderdice, Alex Chase White,
Chris Baxter, Kimbal Bumstead, Alice James, (in mind with Peter Vere Simmons, Christina Georgiou, Maria Einert, Thorsten Adrian, Eva Beatrice Foerster, Damian Harmata, Chien-Ni Hung, Alexander Rues. Natalie Bikoro and Chris Arning attended the funeral in Hungary with Zsi's family)
and here is a song for you
