Dorottya Szanka (she/her)
I play in the overlapping spaces of design, art, and community. I approach all my work as an exercise in storytelling, and researching things beyond their physical or temporal bounds. Collaboration and collective making enrich the self and are centred in my work. Play is the heart of my practice – an endeavour toward seeing with a child’s eye, tracing lines and living inside them. My practice encompasses curation, archiving, movement, participatory art, education and alternative pedagogy.
a-drift-a-shore
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There’s a stage where the seed grows, a stage where it takes shape, and a stage where it opens.
Workshops for people who have experienced migration. The project investigated ways of visual storytelling through the metaphor of a drift seed. An omnipresent phenomenon, migration is defined as movement from one country, place or locality to another. Seeds migrate and populate. They protect the planet, care for animals and humans, and encode memories for life.
Creative writing, sculptural building, and collective map-making reveal individual stories as a form of introspection and healing. The project opened a dialogue on the complexities of migration and diasporic experiences, elevating historically marginalised voices.
Project Links
per–pages
per–pages* is a proposed interactive exhibition about play. The Activity Book is our Bible. It consists of thoughts on nature, container, sequence, instrument and ground – the key pillars of this exploration. Following these pages, you will find loose leaves of instructions. The exhibition invites the participants to imagine its space, form, and activities in mind.
Tools are on the page, a stage.
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*per– is a word-forming element meaning ‘throughout; thoroughly; entirely, utterly’
