100 Days - 93

Day 93

TMN VI - Having your Cake and Eating it!
© Susanne Palzer,  2018

"Position Paper – Negotiating an impossible situation

The UK's decision in 2016 to leave the EU is affecting all parts of life and for many it is an ongoing source of uncertainty bordering on the unbearable. The arts are international and countless artist's lives depend on free movement. A large number of artists reside or work in a country that is not their country of origin. In this context artist's practices have been affected in a myriad of ways, from the practical to the personal. As the question of a future framework is still unresolved, livelihoods and residences are in question and this has created an unacceptable in limbo situation for nearly three years now.

The proposed position paper will attempt to outline how this situation has affected my own practice as an EU27 artist based in the UK. It will introduce Twelve Months Notice: a project I initiated in March 2018 to find ways to negotiate this impossible situation - at a point when to continue my practice as before became impossible. Practice has become a site for ongoing existential dialogue asking what practice can be now, what form it can take and where it can be located, now and in the future. Over the past year this search for adequate forms and expressions has experimented with different media including performance, photography, writing, sharing events and conversations. Looking for ways to communicate has also led to dialogue and collaboration beyond the purely personal. At the same time there have been periods of creative arrest when practice seemed not possible. TMN will come to an end in March 2019 but the dialogue will need to be continued. It is an ongoing process."  - Susanne Palzer

'Position Paper' will be presented at InDialogue, Lincoln, UK, 20 November 2019


30 July 2019
New Brexit chief David Frost intends to attack British worker's rights, suggesting Brexit is an opportunity to escape the EU's "heavy labour market regulation" (The Independent).
Meanwhile we are living through a Climate Emergency: unprecedented 34.8ºC inside the Arctic Circle ... there may soon be no cake for anyone.