Budapest, 8-9 December,
2003:
Silent Witnesses
in the building of the Hungarian Academy of Art
project coordinator: Emese Süvecz from NANE
Detail of an interview made by Dóra Hegyi with Emese Süvecz for
the e-journal exindex:
Emese Süvecz:
(…) It was an action organized by NANE
(Women For Women Together Against Violence) on the world-day of against
the violence against women. All of us worked on bringing the Silent
Witnesses in public places….The aim of my application to the NGO
was to support social mobility. In my letter of application I pointed
out precisely that I would recycle my experience I obtain in the NGO
in the Budapest contemporary art scene….. It is a matter of your
point of view that you read it as an action of art; it is the question
of having or lacking any personal experience. For those whose family
member, mother, or child was killed, Silent Witnesses mean more, than
art: they rather mean anger, supplication, and urge to help. ….During
our demonstrations we hold the hands of the Silent Wittnesses and we
walk together with them to the Parliament. They are women who are lacking
from us because neither law nor police was able to defend them, though
they would have the right for safe life. (….)
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