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Michiel Alberts,
Michael Beards,
Roberto de Jonge,
Bram de Sutter, Djibril Diallo, Janica Draisma, Janica Draisma, Eibenschutz, Claire Fleury, Saar Frieling, Paulien Geerlings, Liesbeth Gritter, Jeanette Groenendaal, Gonnie Heggen, Christiane Hommelsheim, Robbert Kiem Hwat So, Cees Krijnen, Michelle Kurzenacher, Nadine Lavern Coles, Christiane Lopes da Cunha, Roberta Marques, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Ghani Minne, Yasha Musatov, Allessandro Nico Savino, Nicola Nord, Stefano Odoardi, Roy Peters, Marta Pisco, Janja Rakus, Kees Roorda, Sanchez, X, Ine te Rietstap, Betsy Torenbos, Nicola Unger, Mette van der Sijs, Wouter van Loon, Judith Wilske, Pepijn Zwanenberg, |
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name: Christiane Hommelsheim
text: June 1994. I felt kind of lost, driving around with my little blue Polo, seeing little fragments of some very important WHOLE all over the place, but just not getting a grip on what it is all about. "... once I get a glimps of everything, the bottomstructure and all the nuances and the next second - its all gone" like Finn wrote in the answering mashine. Dasarts Block 1 to me was an answeringmashine - it recorded carefully all the questions and statements of voices who came to this place for various reasons, and Dasarts respects them. With all their talents, abilities and inabilities with all their faces. Dasarts block 1 to me was "RESPECT" , respect that was artistically threatening to me. There was so much of it, that nothing was too over the top or selfish or expensive to be at least considered and if at all possible, made possible. Maybe I couldn't respect my own work as much as it was respected my the dasarts team. I remember being "caught" by Ritseart in the Videoroom as I was looking at some of my recordings, being a bit embarrased, thinking "oh this is nothing really and don't ask me what it has to do with the bunkers, the Nazis, the Americans... it was just me filming my shadow" and Ritseart telling me in a serious voice "You have to show this to John! Will you?" I was overwelmed by all the respect to all the ideahs and needs and wished of the participants of block 1. A lot of the time I walked around thinking "Yes, I can see what the other participants do and I kind of get it but not really ... is it really just up to me? Can I really just say that I would like to do such and such and a whole organization respects and supports that?" Of course it would have to have something to do with what is around us, but at the time I didn't get, that that was the point: be confronted with and live in a specific situation, with specific people and deal with it in your own artistic way. Up to that time my work was only worth something if confirmed from the outside. In Dasarts block 1 I realized that that is not the point. Because funny enough I had the feeling that everything I come up with is crap, although everybody respected it if I showed it at all. It taught me that it is all up to me, not all about me, but all up to me to make something happen, to play a card and be in the game, and that I have to really stand behind and for my work... This might sound a little bit simple, but it brought me back to my basics, that had to do with comunity and my wish for and ideahs about comunity. As time went on during block 1 I was much more concerned with the social interaction and observing what the other participants do with all that freedom and respect, than the actual artistic work. I was feeling lost and behind scedule somehow and I remember feeling relieved to see flowers and food on the table again, as if things were comunal and togeather. Food, flowers and candles were holding us togeather in a way, or holding me togeather? In the end we played football with the TAT and made songs with the baktruppen - "I just love to sing and dance", which wasn't the answer either, but yet another card ... It made me think ,that art, no matter what the object or event is one puts out in the end is about human relation and interaction, the question "who is WE?" Are we "fragments reveiling other fragments of the whole" (answering mashine). Nowadays I have much more sense of the Mosaikcharacter of the interrelation of people, at the time of Block 1 I deffinitly lacked the birdperspective, but it made me think, and many of the fragments in Block 1, my own or the work of other participants or things I experienced or someone said, inspired and informed my work after for a long time, and I still struggle with the question of who is WE and dedicated different works to that topic. Dasarts block1 to me was meeting Ritseart, meeting Mareijke, meeting John, meeting Baktruppen Interactions that touched, confused and inspired me, and over time I realized that those moments made a difference, more after than during Block1, and I'm still greatful for having had the opportunity to participate as a guest, even though I wasn't post graduated yet. Christiane Hommelsheim Unfortunately I will not attend the festival, I'm on a sailboat in Italy (... eds.) Special regards to Ritseart and Mareijke who will probably be present i guess and also to the other people who remember me. Liebe Gr¸sse, Christiane . image:  photo: hanna lippmann berlin |
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