Zuzana Žabková
Zuzana Žabková (1987, Košice) does art, dance and choreography, works in the framework of performance, video and installation. She likes thinking in permaculture ways and questioning failing utopias. She works alone and together and apart from her solo projects she likes collaborative projects that reconsider ways of valuing labour, and care in non human manner. She has worked in collaborations with Apart collective, Björnsonova, Caroline Creutzburg, Catalina Insignares, Fero Király, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Laura Eva Meuris, Lucie Mičíková, Eva Priečková, Tanja Sljivar, Nik Timková or Else Tunemyr.
Zuzana Žabková holds an MA from the Fine Arts Academy and BA from the Performing Arts and Dance Academy in Bratislava, Slovakia. Currently she is finishing a M.A. program Choreography and performance in Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen in Germany with guidance of Slovenian philosopher Bojana Kunst. She is a winner of the Oscar Cepan Award 2017 (YVAA). She is a recipient of a 2016 artist-in-residence in Triangle Arts Association, New York, and a 2016 danceWEB scholar at ImPulsTanz in Vienna under the mentorship of Tino Sehgal. In 2015 she was a recipient of a Salzburg Academy scholarship, ERSTE Stiftung, Austria, an artist in residence in Meetfactory Prague, Czech Republic. In 2014 an artist in residence in Regular Line Santa Cruz, California, U.S., 2013 an artist in residence in AQB, Budapest, Hungary, 2012 an artist in residence in Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany. She is the 2013 winner for the Essl Art Award for Slovakia within the VIG special invitation. She likes to move as an octopus walking back to the water. She lives in Prague and Frankfurt. (Source)
- Literature
- Dorottya Szalay, "Distillation - Zuzana Žabková: Für Elise - De profundis", Oct 2013. (English)
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