Emese is an installation and performance artist, and a light designer working in Amsterdam.
Since 2010 january member of the performance group Sumo3 with Alfredo Genovesi and Marek Jason Isleib, and part of Mono collective since 2011 october.
External light designer of Magpie Group, light designer for Monday Match improvisation evenings in Amsterdam, Bimhuis since 2008 together with Ellen Knops and Petyr Veenstra.
'I love this way of no theatre lights - her use of space her use of light is not about light but absolutely unpretentious use of space and time'
(Katie Duck)
As the proprietor of the cultural space in which the works were exhibited I spent days in close proximity to the pieces. The piece that I felt most drawn to was the installation of the nine mirrors. They were beautiful to watch, sometimes resembling raindrops, other times disembodied breasts of various sizes, floating in our space. It is only after a few days of walking near them and through them that I started seeing myself and my surrounding in the mirrors. Suddenly they were transformed from a esthetically beautiful piece to watch to a condiut for watching myself and my own space, it was a eureka moment!
I usually take the time to digest a piece of art. After some time I either "get" it or not. But to think to get a piece and to be so utterly surprised by it after many days was an inspiring moment, and a testament to the playful inspiration of the artist.
(Sahand Sahebdivani)
Curriculum Vitae Emese Csornai
Studies:
2010: Internship at Fablab Amsterdam (Waag society)
2005-2009: Audiovisual department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam
(Diploma: 30.06.2009)
2007-2012:Light technician practise, Amsterdam
2004-2005: Illustration studies, Budapest
2002-2004: Architecture department, Technical University Budapest
Grants:
Sponsorship Saint-Gobain glass company Amsterdam (Endexam Gerrit
rietveldacademie 2009)
Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst grants for the exhibition The Curious Matter
Selected projects,workshops, exhibitions and performances:
Permanent invitations:
2008-2012: light design for Monday match in Bimhuis(curated by Ellen Knops)
2010-2012: light design and overhead projection for Wonderland
(interactive performance for children curated by Makiko Ito)
2009-2010: Light improvisation for Rosie Woof events in Zaal100
(dance-music improvisations curated by Esmee Olthuis)
Professional history:
2012
-Light design for ‘Backflow’, music and dance performance in Schouwburg Utrecht, Blauwe zaal
- Performer and light designer Mono collective
Improvisation at Bozar, Brussels,
-Performer and light designer ‘Falling’ presentation at Le chien perdu, Brussels
- Ephemere2012/1 Sumo3 RIP
-Dramaturgic advisor and light designer Mono collective: Falling asleep
-Light design for Wonderland, performance for children
2011
-Oorsprong: visual artist for Ana Ladas
-Visual artist for Trust Korean dance company improvisation OT301
-Workshop ‘How to use light as a character and as a form of new space’
Cameleon theater (for Impromptu group)
-Video post-producer Meisje Loos for Podium mozaiek
-Light, sound and video technitian for Alexandra Bachzetsis ‘A piece danced alone’ Paris, Leeuwen.
-Falling Apart and Falling in Love (light design for Mono collective, both performed at Muiderpoort theater Amsterdam)
-invited artist at Bimhuis Monday Match and OT301 music and dance improvisation
-Light design for Impromptu (Cameleon theater, Amsterdam)
-Epherme 4 performance in Loos studio with Sumo3
‘Schithol Plaza And The City Idiot’
-Light design for Khouloud Yassine: Extra time (Dansmakers Amsterdam,
Dancing on the edge)
-light design for Ramana&Ghani Tegelijke tijdsreis tour
-Light design Falling Apart for Mono collective, Muiderpoort theater
-’One Legatura to be plucked’ (opera) light design for Danai Bletsa, Conservatorium Amsterdam
-’Waterproof’ light design in Naaldwijk
-Overall technitian in OT301
-Light design for improvisation course of Katie Duck in studio7, Amsterdam
2010
-I want to dance too! Light design for improvisation for deaf children, Bijlmer
Parktheater
-Finoallafinedelmondo Festival, Siena Italy
Light design for compaigne Passage (Paolo Fossa)
-light design for Ramana&Ghani Tegelijke tijdsreis tour
-Opening festival at OT301 Amsterdam, performance with Sumo3 ‘Drunk’
-The Curious Matter solo exhibition in Art Cage Cultural Center. performances
with Kenzo Kusuda, Sumo3, Alfredo Genovesi and Marie Guilleray .
Storytelling Paul Tames van den Berg
-Light design for Waterbeest performance, Mercatorbad, Amsterdam (G-turn
Productions)
-Light design Unmasking space (Paul Estabroek, Padelborn Germany)
-Light design for Cloud dance performance (Georgia Varadou and Sirah
Foighel Brutmann , produced by Dansmakers Amsterdam)
-Unscrambling Humpty Dumpty (Multimedia performance at Loos studios,
Den Haag with Sumo3)
-Oorsprong, Multimedia performance at venue Reservaat Amsterdam with
Alfredo Genovesi(sound) and Marek Jason Isleib (movement) from here on
named asSumo3
2009
-‘A Forest’ performance in Art ’n Public space (Emese Csornai and Alfredo
Genovesi, multimedia performance with overhead projector, beamer and
electronics)
-Endexam exhibition GRA
-Spleen (audiovisual performance in Smart project space)
with Alfredo Genovesi and Simone Giacomini
-Evil in the Church
GRA, in the Oude Kerk
-Workshop Alexandra Bachzetsis Brakke Grond
and performance DANCING participating as performer and editor
-light design for Dubbeldans Muiderpoort theater
-light design for Rosie Woof improvisations zaal 100
-One Minutes Workshop, workshop leader and post-producer, Budapest
University of Fine Arts, Intermedia department
-Doek festival Bimhuis (light improvisation)
2008
-Light advisor and technitian for Zoo, Production of Gabriella Maiorino in
collaboration with DWA
-Open ateliers the Baarsjes, Chassekerk (US installation)
- Drop, yet sea
self initiated audiovisual workshop and performance, Tuzrakter, Budapest
(workshop leader, director, with 10 collaborating dancers)
-Oude Kerk collective exhibition GRA
2007
-Amsterdam tour with Rosa de Foc
-Storytelling with overhead projector in Amsterdam and Budapest
(W139 in Post CS, Badcuyp, West Balkan in Budapest, etc.)
2005
-Starting of self initiated annual artcamp for children in Hungary
Regende zaterdag zodat het beter is filmjes met nederlandse vrienden kijken, gezellegd spreken, leker eten en drinken en gek Internet dinges ook.
Ik zou Armen later onmoeten
Tot volgende keer, kusjes
Very lovely work! Especially the drawings I like a lot. Was fun to work (and dance!) with you last monday hope to meet again! Keep up the beautiful work...
liefs,
Kristien
At the moment my friend(Natalia) is in holland for one week. On 24,25,26 we could be in Amsterdam. If you are interested and free that days-would be great if we can meet....
Best regards,
Maria Oliynyk
All the best, see you monday!
Robin
