Gabriela Vanga
Elzbieta Jablonska
Malgorzata Markiewicz
Michal Murin
Kiril Prashkov
Fabio Andrea Sajiz
Emanuela Marassi
Lorenzo Missoni
Ebba Matz
Mans Wrange
Katrin Essenson
Gül Ilgaz
Aleksandar Kujučev
Rudolf Sikora
Balint Szombathy
Igor Eškinja
Slaven Tolj
Vana Urošević
Alevtina Kakhidze
Igor Scerbina
Florin Tudor & Mona Vatamanu
Lela B.Njatin

Katrin Essenson, Tallinn

biography


Designed to make a difference, performance, 2005

Curator: Anders Härm
Tallinn Art Hall, Talin, Estonia

Designed to make a difference
long-life love songs - Vol.2.
by and with katrin essenson
Performance
Half an hour of "translating" famous and not so famous love songs over the times
index
trigger: pleasure phenomenon
state: changing contexts
the main goal: truth
the main question: to search the main question
principle: suspicion

Quoting Daniel Dennett - The other day, I was embarrassed-dismayed-to catch myself walking and humming a melody to myself...I was energetically humming "It Takes Two to Tango"-a perfectly dismal and entirely unredeemed bit of chewing gum for the ears, that was unaccaountalbly popular sometime in the 1950s. I'm sure I have never in my life chosen this melody, esteemed this melody, or any way judged it to be better than silence, but there it was, horrible musical virus, at least as robust in my meme pool as any melody I actually esteem. -
Excerpts from the artist's project statement