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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