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 Andrea
Dezső was born in Transylvania and is ethnic Hungarian. She
has resided in New York since 1997. Dezső has shown her work at
the Jack Tilton Gallery, The New York Armory Show, Art Basel
Miami, Flux Factory, Galapagos, and her work has been included
in prestigious public and private collections. "Community
Garden" Dezső’s large-scale public art mosaic commissioned by
the MTA Arts for Transit has been recently installed in NYC in
the Bedford Park Boulevard subway station on the #4 line.
Dezső’s art has been published in The New York Times and on the
cover of visual design magazine Print.
Dezső’s illustrated
original fiction, "Mamushka" has been published in the art
magazine Esopus, and "Names in a Book in Random Order" appeared
in the leading alternative comic publication Blab. The literary
journal McSweeney’s featured a series of short stories she wrote
drawing from her experiences growing up in Romania. A book about
Dezső’s art, creative process and obsessions titled "Andrea
Dezső Fetish Book" was published in 2006 by Publikum.
Andrea Dezső is an
Assistant Professor of Media Design at Parsons The New School
for Design in New York City. She has also taught at City
College, The Hungarian University of Design, The American Museum
of Visionary Art, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
www.andreadezso.com
Luminitza
collects the green, star-shaped bellybuttons of oranges. She
keeps them in a shoebox which she shakes every now and then to
hear their bellybutton music. She says that her father works for
the Securitate. They have special stores, people who work for
the Securitate, in buildings unmarked from the outside where
they enter using secret passes, where oranges, candy bars, and
bananas are sold. We are afraid of Luminitza because if she
doesn't like you her father can make a phone call, and he can
get your parents disappear one day on their way to work, never
to come home again, so we swear to give her all the bellybuttons
we come by, even the ones we find on the street, but I haven't
seen oranges for years and I never find anything valuable on the
streets, yet in my dreams I sit under enormous, fragrant,
blossoming orange trees in a faraway land filling my pockets
with green, star-shaped bellybuttons for Luminitza…
---from Andrea Dezsö’s “The Numbers”,
McSweeney's issue 12
 Miwa
Koizumi was born and raised in Japan. Married to a
French-American, she primarily speaks French at her home in
Brooklyn. Before moving to New York in 2001, she studied in
France for 5 years and in Bali, Indonesia with a group of
Ethnographic Researchers.
Koizumi received an MFA from Tama Art-University in Japan, and
the DNSAP from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she was
honored with the Multimedia Prize upon graduation. Recently she
has been studying the pidgin cultures resulting from the clash
between the innumerable small tribes present in New York City.
Miwa Koizumi has exhibited internationally in Japan, France, and
the USA. Recently at ISE Foundation, Redux Contemporary Art
Center, Flux Factory, NGC244, Goliath Visual Space, Corcoran
College, Gallerie Caisse des Depots, Chateau d'Oiron, ENSBA, and
Parco Gallery.
www.miwa.metm.org
In 1989, I was a student in Japan. Our emperor changed, the
Second World War criminal was replaced, and I remember thinking,
"I'm living in a really nice moment when I don’t know any fear".
At the same time, I saw the Romanian Revolution on TV and all of
Eastern Europe shouting and moving. I couldn't understand how
people could shout out so much emotion and how so much human
energy could move people forward. So I decided to see with my
own eyes Romania, Hungary, the new Czech Republic, and East
Germany. This was my first trip to another country. I took a
ticket on the Russian airline Aeroflot and my journey started in
the Red Square in Moscow at night without a passport because the
Soviet Border Guards kept the passports of all the travelers in
transit.
---quote from Miwa Koizumi on My Country
Source:
Hungarian Cultural Center |
