Human relations are radical points of resistance. Several of my works focus on female subjectivities, feminist genealogies and multi-generational relationships. “M/OTHERS” explores the mother-daughter relationship. Through modalities of action, feeling and perception, it opens an inter-subjective time, giving birth to a singular space with traces and states of conjoining. This is the second time I have asked my mother to perform with me. The duet between my mother and myself occasions empathy, care and compassion, and through sensual attention, it experiments with a poetic weaving of oscillating meaning. Such a cohabitation and constant reconfiguration of our bodies’ entanglement becomes a process of undoing-redoing identity, creating a moment of ‘co-emergence’: being and being with, and witnessing the time-space beyond identity. I plan to develop “M/OTHERS” further with other mother-daughter couples.

Eszter Salamon is an artist and performer who lives and works between Berlin, Paris and Brussels. Since 2001, she has beencreating solo and group works that have been presented in performing arts venues and festivals throughout the world including Centre Pompidou (FR), Centre Pompidou Metz (FR), Festival d’Automne (FR), Avignon Festival (FR), Ruhrtriennale (DE), Holland Festival (NL), The Kitchen New York (USA), The Place London (UK), HAU Hebbel-am-Ufer Berlin (D), Berlin Documentary Forum (D), Tanz im August Berlin (D), PACT Zollverein (D), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (BE), Kaaitheater (BE), Tanzquartier Wien (AT), Kampnagel Hamburg (D), Steirischer Herbst (AT), Manchester International Festival (UK), Holland Festival (NL), Nanterre-Amandiers (FR), FTA Montreal (CA), Dance Triennale Tokyo (JP), TheatreWorks Singapore (SG), Panorama Festival Rio de Janeiro (BR), Movimiento Sur Valparaiso (CL). She is frequently invited to present her work in museums, MoMA (USA), Witte de With (NL), Fondation Cartier (FR), Serralves Foundation (PT), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AT), Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE), Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation (BE), ING Art Center (BE), KINDL (DE), mumok (AT). Her exhibition “Eszter Salamon 1949” was presented in 2015 at Jeu de Paume as part of Satellite curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. Eszter Salamon’s work revolves around choreography employed as a means of navigating between different media such as sound, text, voice, image, bodily movements and actions. In 2014, she started a series of works exploring both the notion of monument and the practice of speculating on history making. She is laureate of the Evens Arts Prize 2019. esztersalamon.net

Gyarmati Erzsébet is a biology and physical education teacher, dance instructor and educational expert. Fifty years ago, she began to engage in folk dance teaching and played a major role in making dance education (folk, ballet and contemporary) a part of basic art education in Hungary alongside classical music. With her students she founded the Szàzszorszép Dance Ensemble, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this year and has toured in Europe, Turkey, Israel and Canada. Gyarmati was the founder and director of the Martonvàsàr School of Arts between 1993 and 2000. Between 1994 and 1997, she participated in MUS-E, Yehudi Menuhin’s European music and art educational project as one of its Hungarian coordinators. Based on an experiment in nine countries (England, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and Hungary), the projects ought to promote creativity and tolerance through the arts. She is the author of several books on Hungarian folk dance education, including “Games and Dance in School I –IV” (2001). She was part of Eszter Salamon’s “Magyar Tàncok” (“Hungarian Dances”) and performed in several venues in France, Belgium, Germany, England, Italy, Poland and Austria.

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