Last May, I have turned 50 years of professional life, a piece of history that is almost all of my adult life. And even if I don't think there's anything transcendental to celebrate, besides being still standing, thoughts overlap, flashes of memories; the persistence of a journey that, I see it again now, embraces four compact moments that I don't want to be overlooked by memory.
En mayo, he cumplido 50 años de vida profesional, un pedazo de historia que es, prácticamente, casi toda mi vida adulta. Y aun pensando que no haya nada de trascendental que festejar, más allá de estar aún de pie, se me agolpan los pensamientos, retazos de recuerdos; la persistencia de un viaje que, lo veo nuevamente ahora, abraza compacto cuatro momentos que no quisiera fuesen descuidados por la memoria.
Lena and I meet at Magdalena Munich 2018. During rehearsal for "Daughter" of Jill Greenhalgh we talked a lot about our experience with asian heritages (she with chinese, and I with taiwanese one). We understand each other and wish to cooperate somewhere.
It was the month of December, the year 1999. I found the website of Magdalena. It was not a mirage; it was an oasis for me while questioning how to make feminist theatre in Istanbul. I wrote the email; I got the answer. Jill Greenhalgh replied. Then we met in Novi Sad in June 2000: The workshop, little talks, lots of energy exchange. It was the month August, the year 2000, we established our feminist theatre group, Tiyatro Boyalı Kuş (Theatre Painted Bird) in Istanbul.
At the conference Reconference: rethink, reimagine, reboot held from 10 to 12 of April 2019 in Kathmandu, Nepal, Zoe Gudović had the chance to hear many amazing women, including the great Arundhati Roy.
Zoe Gudović writes about her experiences at the Magdalena München Saison 2018 - collaborating with other Magdalena artists, living at the Villa Waldberta, and celebrating her birthday there.
De vuelta en Santiago de Chile después de haber cerrado el 2018 con la organización de Mestiza Chile(link is external), dando visibilidad al trabajo escénico de las mujeres, generando espacios de intercambio y creación de vínculos… y abriendo este 2019 con la participación en Tantidhatri(link is external), en India, donde nos pusimos en contacto con artistas de latitudes lejanas, abriéndonos a las formas de arte de la India y otros países de oriente en vistas de establecer un canal de intercambio y que sean también parte de un próximo Mestiza, se abren y extienden las redes...
I recently had the privilege of attending the third Tantidhatri Festival(link is external), a Magdalena festival held in different locations in India since 2012. This time, from 15 to 20 January 2019, Tantidhatri was held at Rabindra Tirtha(link is external) – an arts centre dedicated to the poet and philosopher Ranbindranath Tagore.
Zoe Gudović writes about her experience of creating "DISSOCIATION", a performance installation in Das KloHäuschen, a former men's public toilet in Munich, Germany, that is now a contemporary art space.
